How To thrive

It's amazing that Jesus told us exactly how to attain spiritual prosperity; but yet, we still seem to focus our greatest life efforts on attaining physical prosperity. You see, what or whom we love the most directly affects our spiritual prosperity! The evidence of what or whom we love most is revealed in what we think about most; what we worry about most; what we work at the most. Is it our money, our job, our friends or family? What does our treasure look like? What is the one thing that would devastate you if you lost it? Saints, if we want to live in spiritual prosperity, then the most important goal of our lives must be having a strong sense of the presence of God. We need to desire God as much as He desires us. Throught the scripture, God reveals His great longing to bless us with His presence. Even His thoughts are to bless us. 
(Jeremiah 29:11) says "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, throughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." 
O but to capture the full height, depth, length, and breadth of God's eternal blessings for us, we must enter into His presence and be determined this upcoming New Year to live there daily. We must search for Him with all of our heart! In this next passage God goes on to say that when we recognize how much goodness He has in store for us, we respond with a great passion to know Him and live in His presence. 
(Jeremiah 29:12-13) "Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." We must seek to constantly live in God's Holy presence. This means we must come to God based upon who He is and not who we think He is. The more we experience God's presence, the more we discover how remarkably wonderful He has made us and in turn we will want even more of Him! Let us thrive in 2025.