Seek ye first the kingdom Part 1

Seek First | The Crumb, The Loaf & The Leaven (Matthew 6:33)

The Myrrhologist Podcast | Marissa Saint Luc

In this episode, we step into a prophetic foundation-laying conversation on Matthew 6:33 — and why God often interrupts our plans to pour new floors before He builds new levels.

This is not a “blessing formula” message.

This is a table test.

Jesus is pressing, leveling, and flattening hearts in this hour because wind moves freely across flat ground — and the Kingdom often begins with subtraction before it manifests as “addition.”

In today’s episode, we talk about:

• Why God won’t build revelation on a cracked foundation
• The leaven Jesus presses out: ambition, comparison, ego, hidden motives
• Why “seek first” isn’t a promise of addition — it’s a summons
• The danger of measuring your crumb against someone else’s loaf
• Joseph’s prison prophecy: the cupbearer vs the baker
• Why the greatest test is serving at the King’s table without serving yourself

A crumb from Jesus is not “less.”

It’s the full Christ.

And when we honor what He placed on another person’s plate — instead of envying it — we are feeding Jesus in real time.

If this message pierced you, share it.

Leave the leaven in Egypt.

And let the Lord level your heart until only Jesus remains.

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Transcript

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For the remnant, Earth's time has officially stopped. It's pressing season. And the burning ones are being sealed into the scrolls. The Lord is on his final search to see if faith can still be found. I woke up in the wilderness. I barely made it here. But when the Holy Spirit rips you in fire, you become ruined for false encounters, for anything counterfeit. This is that can't sleep, can't move without his whisper kind of love. The words he spoke over me while I was still in my mother's womb. The forerunners, the John the Baptist were starting to sprint now. While most were planning our funerals, we became undercover martyrs. This is a holy announcement. Jesus is here, and he's calling you, his bride, to come out from among them. Sever the old serpent's head by the blood of the lamb and by the word of your testimony. Get up, rise from the ashes, shake off every chain, every lie, every trace of dust that they tried to bury you under. Grab your oil and run with me. Help me wake up, sleeping beauty, because the scroll is open and heaven's table is set. The hour of hidden manna for the bride has begun. Welcome to the Mirologist Podcast. I'm your host, Marissa St. Luke, and today we're gonna be having a discussion that feels like the pulse of the hour. Lately, the Lord has just been interrupting my plans. I've had outlines. I'm a huge planner person, but God just keeps rearranging my schedule to pour foundations because we can't build revelation on a cracked floor. So this is a little bit of a spontaneous prophetic flow today. This week I've been sensing that he's pressing through worn down cracked concrete to pour new foundations. It's a new outpouring, and he's rooting out what we couldn't see until now. He's breaking open what's been buried, and he's unleashing the fullness of his anointing. So this is a very exciting time to be a believer. This will be a mini-series where I'm going to be going into depth on Matthew 6.33. And as I was praying about this message, the Lord was showing me things over and over again. And it's something that I never seen before. Jesus loves flat things, flat lands, flat bread, flat foundations. And I won't go into all the intricacies of this concept today, but I'll give you a glimpse of what he showed me. The first thing that he pointed out was that he loves flat lands. And as I started piecing together all of the scriptures that he was bringing me to, I realized that if we are made of dust, then we are the earth. And if we are that land, God showed me that it's got to be level. Of course, he can use a hill or a valley, but when we're gathered in one place, the small soft patches of green pastures, the breeze of his Holy Spirit can move from north, south, east, west, and easily touch everything on that plain field. This is what I saw a picture of. You ever seen somebody try to check which direction that the wind is going by licking their finger? That's the vein that he wants us in. And we see this example from many prominent biblical figures that the kingdom of God always begins by pressing something down, by flattening somebody before they rise. Bread doesn't rise until it's been flattened first. The Son of Man was birthed in Bethlehem, which means house of bread. And he was not born in a palace or a temple, not on a mountaintop of ego, but in a lowly manger carved out for sheep. And I believe it so that his sheep could one day ascend into the upper room. I used to question how the disciples weren't able to recognize Jesus after the resurrection. Jesus obviously didn't come back in the exact form that they buried him in. First, he approached the womb of favor, which is Mary. And she thought that he was the gardener because he was embodying Adam, the new Adam, restoring what the first one lost. And then he appeared to two disciples, and they didn't even recognize him, not until he broke bread. That moment shows us that the revelation of who he is always comes through communion and intimacy. So many people claim to be Christian, but when you sit down with them and actually break bread with them, you find out that they're taking the Lord's name in vain. And I'm not talking about using Jesus Christ as a swear word. I'm talking about taking his name on like a bride, but your character isn't married to him. Jesus shows up when the word of truth is broken. He is living and breathing in us through his word. And resurrection freed him from recognition. His resurrected body gave him the ability to reveal every nature of who he is. And that's what makes him so beautiful. He's got the best personality. Whoever you need, that's who's gonna show up. If you're feeling like an orphan, he's coming in as a father. If you're feeling unprotected, he's rising as a lion. If you're lost, he appears as a shepherd. And if you're in a playful, childlike state, he's coming laughing, he's busting in the room, and he's embodying unmeasurable joy because it's who he is. Every nature that saves is found in him, and he reveals his characters so that he can change yours. And I don't want to go here, but I'm convinced that he might have shown up in an Italian body. The ultimate wise guy stepping out of the tomb saying, I know you saw a body go in, but you never saw a body come out. And what's the first thing he does? He finds Mary because he knows she's gonna run and tell everybody. And you know that she ran straight to Martha saying, Girl, you better get back in the kitchen. He's not gonna rebuke you this time. Then he finds his paisans and goes, What's the matter with you? You got anything to eat? Like, I'm gone for three days in the grave. What do you got over here? Forget rebuking their unbelief. He should have rebuked them for only having fish and a honeycomb. And by Pentecost, you could tell that he had clearly moved on from the pressed-down unleavened bread season. When the fire came down, it's as if Jesus said, Get the pot of water on the stove because we're making pasta now. Because when the Holy Spirit divided that flame, he split the dough. He ran it through heaven's pasta press. The same ingredients as bread, just a brand new shape. Individual slices of glory getting tossed, stirred, stretched, and served. And over 3,000 got saved that day. And I mean, let's be real. Only an Italian could feed that many people. So I'm not saying nothing, but between the bread, the olive oil, the wine, and that moment that he flipped over some tables, I'm just saying Jesus could have probably come back Italian. But on a serious note, these elements, the bread, the wine, the oil, the wind, they are the foundation of what's always been on God's menu. And today, I want to talk about what happens when God invites you to the table of paradise. This is one of the most important lessons that he's ever walked me through. It's how he's delivered me from small prayers and from desiring the wrong kind of more. If we really put on our prophetic lenses and gain wisdom with understanding about Matthew 6.33, it starts to look a lot like John chapter 6, verse 66. It's the same crowd that got fed, the 5,000 who ate the multiplied bread. They just witnessed a miracle. They heard and they saw the actual sound of Jesus in the flesh, but they walked away. After listening to some of the things that he was saying, they finally realized that following him meant losing everything that they thought they wanted. At that time, the Jews were anticipating a conquering king who would overthrow Rome. They wanted King David, not David the Shepherd Boy. And Jesus' message hasn't even changed. He's still trying to strip the Saxphifth Avenue desires right off of us and exchange them for sackcloth. And even the mansions in the sky were never promises of opulence. They were tests of obedience. Now I can already hear the pushback. I can already anticipate all of the DMs that I won't open, so don't bother. Oh Marissa, you're wrong about this. God just wants us to live an abundant life so that we can sow into the kingdom. I used to think like that too. But if we think that God needs Pharaoh's currency to capture the hearts of his people, then we have missed the point of deliverance altogether. If I could write an eighth letter of prophecy to the churches of Revelation, I would write, you say that you have crossed over, but you're still building pyramids. Moses never bartered for freedom. He broke open the system that sold it. Jesus told his disciples, When you go out to minister, don't take an extra shirt or sandals or a bag, which is a money bag. He was teaching them detachment, the kind of dependence that proves who your provider really is. And the pride of life has some of us in a chokehold. We chase the appearance of excellence because we think that's what the blessing of God looks like. And that's exactly what Jesus said when he rebuked the Pharisees. He called them whitewashed tombs, people dressed in holiness but disconnected from an ounce of humility, not enough to recognize the Son of Man. They knew the word inside and out. They met the richest person in the universe. And still they mocked him for his poverty and the company that he kept. And it makes me wonder: who are we walking past right now because of their appearance? Who have we overlooked because they don't look anointed? Their tone wasn't polished enough. We need to be careful because the next person that we dismiss might be carrying the oil that we've been praying for. The most expensive thing that any one of us will ever wear is the invisible anointing of Jesus. It costs everything, but it never goes out of style. So if you've wrestled like me between having provision and living in purpose, between having the dream of success and the discipline of surrender, then maybe he's flattening us all out right now. He's pouring out the foundation for what's next. In Matthew 6.33, Jesus says, Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all of these things will be added unto you. We quote this verse like a license to claim physical blessings, but Jesus was never offering addition. He was issuing a summons. He was saying, put the reign of God first and watch heaven rearrange what you even thought that you needed. For years, my natural ear only heard addition in that verse. I used to pray, God, you know what I need, you know my heart. But tucked behind those words was still the desire for comfort and success and control. I was asking for more when heaven was trying to teach me subtraction. I desired expansion, but he was checking my foundation and he was flattening me out. He was saying, You say that you trust me now. Let me see if I could trust you with weight, with influence. How far can I stretch you without your ego snapping back? How far can I bless you without pride slipping back through a crack? Can you stay filled? He just began sifting out the leaven. All of the hidden motives that had crept into my disabled prayers. My prayers became crippled through the leaven of ambition. My prayers became leprous through making contact with the leaven of comparison. I was holding back from God what he already saw. The quiet yeast of self-promotion that makes the heart puffed up, elevating myself with the yeast of judgment, the one that measures who's more anointed, assessing if I could run their ministry better. And I'm just going to put my own business out there. I hope that this helps somebody, but as a prophetic worshiper, I would go into some services and I would quietly judge, thinking that I knew the song that needs to be sung to enter into the presence of the Lord. And realistically, the throne room of heaven is repeating the same word over and over again: holy, holy, holy. But we contaminate ourselves by assuming that we could spiritually recognize who's operating in the gifts of the Spirit. And let's be real right now, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead has the most difficult time killing off our pride and resurrecting humility in all of us. And not that false humility either. Don't play yourself. False humility is pride in the skies. And I have seen it behind many church stages, I mean ministries, the ones that can't celebrate another's gift, the ones that envy someone else's word when they preach. They jot down another's phrasing to copy what they have deemed to be powerful. False humility wears a lot of different masks and loves performing. And in the age we're living in, everybody's got a platform, but very few are tuned in to the voice of God. True humility hides the hand of service. It's really about becoming invisible so that only Jesus can be seen, that nobody's looking at you anymore. They just see his character. And as I started thinking about this today, I couldn't shake the story of Joseph. And I know that God is going to build on this revelation, and so we'll get into this more down the line. But I wanted to start out with this: that two men were locked up with Joseph, a cupbearer and a baker. In Pharaoh's court, a cupbearer wasn't just a typical servant. He's the one that tasted the king's wine before the king drank it. He would stand really close to Pharaoh at all times. His job was to ensure that the king's cup was pure, that there was no poison, no mixture or contamination. The cupbearer represents those who carry the wine of the Spirit. I'm talking about people who handle access, leaders and intercessors, prophets, worshipers, those who are entrusted to taste revelation before it's poured out. We can always analyze the hidden leaven in somebody else. But there's a danger of hidden leaven here. Once you get comfortable near power, you stop discerning what's in the cup. You become drunk with power instead of testing every spirit. Then there was the baker. He was the one responsible for preparing the king's bread. But somewhere along the line, he started serving himself. That same spirit crept into the house of Ananias and Sapphira. It's the selfish spirit of gluttony, hoarding, and half-giving. The one that feeds on the portion that you promised to God, but you kept it for yourself. And I can't say for sure, but maybe this is why he didn't go to retrieve Joseph or mention him to Pharaoh. Because he was envious of a gift that would have made Joseph closer to Pharaoh than him. The baker represents those who handle the bread of life, but mix it with self-promotion and self-consumption. They taste too much of their own dough. And this is why in the story of Joseph that the baker gets cut off. So when Joseph was in prison with these two men, they each had a dream. And even while Joseph was locked up, he still served the gift that God gave him. He didn't wait for freedom to use it. He interpreted both dreams faithfully. To the cupbearer, he said, You'll be restored. And to the baker, he said, you'll be cut off. And both dreams came to pass just as Joseph interpreted. Joseph said, Hey, yo, when you get out of here, you better remember me and mention me to Pharaoh. But the word says that the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph. He forgot him. Listen, we are serving God's table. And so many people want to claim, oh, I'm in the kingdom. But a lot of us wouldn't pull half of the garbage that we do here when we get to heaven. Imagine finally sitting down at the marriage supper of the Lamb, and you've got a crumb on your plate. You start checking your placement card because surely Jesus got this wrong. You look over to the person's plate next to you and you see that they have a whole loaf of bread. Would you risk getting caught reaching for it, trying to steal what wasn't meant for you? And oops, here's that orphan spirit coming and popping back up again. But this is what we do. We measure our crumbs next to the size of somebody else's loaf. But whether it's a crumb or a whole loaf, it's the full embodiment of Jesus. And I believe that this is the spirit that Jesus is wanted to confront in this hour. It is a thou shall not steal in real time. God wasn't just talking about stealing possessions, he was talking about stealing words, stealing revelation, stealing what God baked fresh for your calling and your assignment. And this is also thou shalt not covet. We gotta stop envying each other's gifts. We have to start treasuring the peace of presence that he placed on each of our plates. You know what? I think I'm gonna have to stop right here because a single crumb from Jesus is worth way more than a penthouse on billionaires row. There's nothing that could compare. Jesus said, When I was hungry, you fed me. When I was thirsty, you gave me a drink. Every time that we honor the presence in somebody else's portion, we're feeding Jesus. Every time that you celebrate another person's loaf instead of envying it, you're saying, Lord, I see you in them. And every time that you tear your own bread open to nourish someone who's starving for God, you're joining the table of heaven in real time. That's the secret of the upper room. They were all filled. Let me say that again. They were all filled. And that's why he keeps flattening us so that there's room for everyone at the same level ground. The greatest in his kingdom is the servant, not the one with a million followers or with the loudest revelation, but the one who keeps refilling cups and washing feet while nobody's watching. Our only reminder. Reward is his heart. Our only reward will be looking into his eyes and him admiring how his bride has become his helper. I just want to pray as we close today. Father, we just thank you for inviting us to your table. Thank you for your crumbs. One crumb from you is enough to fill a lifetime. Forgive us for comparing our portion to somebody else's plate. Forgive us for measuring our anointing against another's overflow. You are the bread of life. Teach us to honor each other. Let humility become our posture. Flatten out our hidden motives, our agendas, and our false theologies of blessing. Let every table that we sit at become an upper room. You are the addition. You are our inheritance. You are the everything. In Jesus' name. Amen. Well, thank you for listening to the Morologist Podcast. If this message spoke to you, please share it with someone who needs to hear it. And I urge you to search your heart and your motives. If there's any hidden leaven, leave it in Egypt. And I hope that this message has encouraged you to give your crumb away. Because greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Give the bread of life away. And one of my greatest advice is to listen to the red letters of Jesus. There's different versions of it on YouTube, and sometimes I put it on through the night. Just let the sound of his voice recalibrate your heart. I can feel the weight of his presence on this today. So we're going to keep this conversation going because there's so much richness in learning to see from heaven's perspective. As always, this message has been brought to you by Ahava Overflow, where we believe that Jesus is the key that unlocks wholeness to the body, soul, and spirit. And if you'd like to connect further, you can visit my website at MarissaSaintluke.com. Until next time, seek first the kingdom of God. Let him press out the leaven and subtract the excess to level your heart until only Jesus remains. God bless.