Ministering to the Lord God and Father ranks greater than ministering to His People. Yet, all are important to Him, and He also ministers to you while you minister to Him and to His People. Just don't allow His ministering to you in the process of ministering to Him distract or turn you away from continuing and completing your ministering to Him, no matter how much you are receiving of Him while giving to Him. Still press to give to Him, for He is more important than those gifts you have gained or received of Him.

The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak: thankfully, it's not by might (strength) nor by power but by God's Spirit as the Lord said. Do not forget that you can pray in the flesh and you can pray in the Spirit. It could be like in your dream or trance, having your flesh or body relaxing while you advance in and with your spirit into the realms of God, seeking Him even when you already found Him, and ministering to Him beyond the rewards you are receiving of it.

The curtain was torn open when the Lord died for us on the cross, and the way of accessing the Holy of Holies through the Blood of the Lamb (Jesus Christ) made available for all who come into the temple to seek Him. This temple is not just a building of Solomon or Zerubbabel at Jerusalem in the Middle East, but the temple within your body.

The flesh is weak, but you don't have to walk after the flesh nor led by the flesh, to come to your Lord God and Father of spirits. In the journey of coming to Him by the ways of the Spirit, seek Him more even when you already found Him and His angels. Elijah had left all, including leaving his first servant (that was willing to accept been left behind - unlike Elisha) while Elijah went to seek the Lord in far distance away, even though the Lord was reachable to Elijah wherever Elijah was or had been. Elijah could reach God anywhere and even opened or shut the heavens from wherever he was on earth, and yet he realized through Jezebel's threat that his fleeing is not over yet, and since there was fleeing for him to do there was seeking the Lord God for him to do therefore. In the battle, where you stopped seeking the Lord determines where you stopped advancing in the realms of His Salvation and Presence.

Elijah came to the place where angel prepared his food and fed him couple of times, where he rested. He had advanced from ravens bringing him food to where a widow brought him food; and then later he came to where angel of God brought or served him food physically. Yet, he sought the Lord in his journey on the strength of the angel's food for 40 days and nights still seeking the Lord at Mount Horeb.

There at Horeb, Elijah was still seeking the Lord God, whom he could hear audibly but did not see. The Wind, the Quake, and the Fire, all passed and did wonders, but Elijah did not see the Lord whom he was seeking in any of those Powers that were advertising themselves for him to possess them. Yes, Elijah was not seeking for powers to do more signs and wonders, either the powers of the element of fire, element of earth-(quake) or element of wind. Elijah matured above seeking the Powers or gifts of God to do miracles, signs and wonders before people; for Elijah was seeking God.

He couldn't stop seeking the Lord at Mount Horeb, and he had to relinquish his mantle or ministry to another man (Elisha) to succeed him because he would rather continue seeking the Lord than occupied with prophetic ministry. And then, no important place where the Presence of God was on earth around Israel that Elijah wouldn't travel to seek the Lord there beyond Mount Horeb. Even in the day the Lord was to take Elijah away from Elisha, Elijah traveled from place to place in that same day, from Gilgal through Bethel and Jericho, and crossing Jordan. By implication I say that since nowhere on earth called for Elijah to go in seeking the Lord, he was taken into heaven where the call of seeking the Lord God in the heavens continued, dropping his remaining mantle of ministry on earth when taken.

Now, we have this great privilege of not needing to seek the Lord God throughout the land of pilgrimage (on earth) first before we begin seeking Him in the realms of the heavens. You don't have to travel through Israel or go various places seeking the Lord or His Kingdom, because the Kingdom of God (which you should seek first) is within you in heavenly/spiritual realms via the Spirit. Seek first the Kingdom of God, but seek the Kingdom of God within you. The primary purpose for you to be "Born Again" is for you to see or enter the Kingdom of God. Many people are 'born again' but they are neither see nor entering the Kingdom of God; and the reason is because they are not seeking the Kingdom of God. Seek and you shall find; but seek first the Kingdom of God, and all other things shall be added to you so you don't have to seek them anymore.

If you are 'born again' and you are not seeking or seeing the Kingdom of God and God of the Kingdom, your being born again is getting wasted day by day.

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