Seek ye first the Kingdom Part 2

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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Until next time: seek first the Kingdom… and let Him press out the leaven.

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Welcome back to the Mirologist Podcast. I'm your host, Marissa St. Luke, and we are continuing the conversation around Matthew 6, 33. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all of these things shall be added unto you. I think we've been in the dark about what Jesus really meant here. And today I'm finishing where I left off in our first episode. But this time I'm going to show you the revelation sodmet that backs up what I'm talking about. Last time we talked about crumbs, that even a crumb from Jesus would be enough to sustain a lifetime. And how we must be willing to give our crumb away. Because to stay filled, we need to maintain a posture of hunger and humility. And I know that this is true because I've lived this. Most people don't lose God in famine. They lose him after they found him. We remember him when we're desperate, but we forget him in fullness, when the bills are paid, when the body is healed, when life finally feels calm, when the storm settles and the heart quiets down. How many of us have cried out for deliverance only to abandon the deliverer once the doors opened? You prayed for a husband or a wife, and once you got married, you forgot him. You prayed for a child, and once the nursery filled with laughter, you forgot the one who filled your womb with promise. This is the human cycle of comfort. That's why Scripture says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It's a holy reverence, the kind that keeps intimacy from fading, and it anchors us in both famine and feast. You gain wisdom with understanding when you stay hungry in and out of season. Now let me show you something hidden right here in Matthew 6.33. Because when you read it in Hebrew, you realize that Jesus wasn't just speaking spiritually, he was revealing structure. There are three anchor words that hold the whole verse together, and each one is a key and each one is a code. Sikh is bakshu, kingdom is Malkut, and his righteousness is Zikatu. And when you look at the numbers of these words, you realize that Jesus was revealing how his kingdom actually functions. Sikh is the number 408. And 408 speaks of refinement before reward. 400 is Tav, which means the mark, a seal and covenant completion, and eight represents new beginnings. So inside seek is this message, the mark of a new beginning is only found through refinement. So when God says seek first, he's not telling us to chase something, he's inviting us into the furnace. Every seeker gets refined before they get rewarded. Then we move into kingdom, which is the number 496. And the root word for that is Malek, which means king. And when you add the suffix, it becomes kingdom, the realm that is ruled by the king. And 496 means whatever God adds to your life must first submit under the kingship, his government. And this is where our adulterous generation has been projecting blasphemy in pulpits, decreeing and declaring physical manifestations of checks in the mail and temporary earthly benefits when God was giving you access to an invisible kingdom. Listen, there's one thing I want you to start declaring over your life: that the government shall be upon his shoulders. That's where you want to be. And then we get to his righteousness, which is the number 611. And this is where this revelation deepens. Righteousness has nothing to do with church, it's a governmental word. And what we've done is we've reduced it to moral behavior. But in scripture, it's about being in right standing with the government. In the book of Isaiah, it says, of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. It's government first, peace second. So if you're standing in right relationship with the government, you inherit peace. Peace is a byproduct of the alignment with the kingdom of God. Jesus never came to make you a good person, he came to restore us for us to have legal alignment with the kingdom of God. And this part, we cannot miss this. You cannot come under his government without his spirit. I mean, we're all human, we all have bad days, but we cannot discipline our way into the right order. We need the Holy Spirit. We need the indwelling of the Holy Spirit because the righteousness of God is not sustained by our effort, it's produced by a constant presence. The Holy Spirit embodies the whole government of God living inside of you, aligning you in real time, convicting your heart, pulling out the weeds. So when Jesus says seek first, he's not telling us try harder. And when you add all of these numbers together, you get four hundred and eight, four hundred and ninety-six, six hundred and eleven, you get one thousand five hundred and fifteen. That's a life coming into right standing. It's actually written as six plus nine. And nine is the number of fruitfulness, and six is the number of men. So fifteen is produced when God finds a vessel to carry it. And now we double that, right? It's fruitfulness meeting a vessel twice. This is double portion. What God produces has now found a life that can carry it fully. And when you break it all down, what is hidden is now properly joined. It's right standing on both sides, all bringing you into the right standing under the king. Which means Jesus was never teaching us prosperity math. He was teaching us purity that leads to right standing in his government. Before addition comes subtraction, before multiplication comes emptying. Subtract everything that does not belong in the kingdom. Fancy cars, not in the kingdom. Mansions, not in the kingdom. Yachts, not in the kingdom. Followers, fame, brand deals, platforms, not in the kingdom. Degrees, titles, bank accounts, not in the kingdom. Even ministry trophies and certificates and doctorates, they don't cross over. The only thing that the kingdom of God will recognize is likeness, the image of Christ in you. So we have to stop trying to bring Egypt into eternity. And I'll say this honestly, I'm I'm mad at myself for how long that I tried to justify mammon stewardship. I mean, what are we even doing here? It took me running through what I call the car wash of the seven churches in Revelation over and over again for chains to break off of my mind and to uproot everything in my heart that just was not living in right standing with the government of God. Ephesus scrubbed off my performance. Pergamum scraped off compromise. Sardis blew out dead works. Philadelphia revived endurance and Lacedonia shattered control. And when the grip broke, the flow began. You become so dead to this world, but somehow you feel like a trillionaire. I've never been more healed than this, more whole than this. I got nothing to prove to anybody, no fear of man. You want to know what my biggest problem is right now? Not having enough alone time with God. That's the evidence of overflow. I've never felt like this before. It's hunger that doesn't leave after the meal. And honestly, it's dangerous to mention Jesus in my presence. You open the Bible and you'll be arrested for the rest of the day. I probably should wear a t-shirt that says, don't do it, you're not ready. Even when I try to hide sunglasses, hat, hoodie, I'm still getting approached in the freezer aisle at Publix and hosting healing prayer lines at Manual Physical. Because when the oil's on you, you don't blend in. And I'm not trying to brag, I'm trying to invite you. This is the sound of a bride who finally said yes. So the glow that you hear in my voice, it's not pride, it's proximity to the bridegroom. And hidden manna is falling on the bride right now, not on the polished, not on the proud, but on the hungry. And this all connects to something deeper. When Jesus ascended, he was taken up in a cloud, and the angels said that he would return in this same way. And in the book of Hebrews, it says that we are the great cloud of witnesses. The body of Christ is becoming the atmosphere of his appearing. Now I want to just circle back to Joseph because this pattern, it's all over his life. When Joseph was locked in the Egyptian cell, God surrounded him with prophecy disguised as people, the cupbearer and the baker, two servants of Pharaoh, two systems of the world, both dreamed, both were tested, both revealed something about Joseph's future. The baker handled Pharaoh's bread, the substance that sustained him. But in his dream, the birds were eating from his baskets. Birds in biblical imagery represent unclean appetites, devouring what should nourish. He represented mixture, pride, manipulation, that same spirit that would move through Judas. If that baker lived, his influence would contaminate the grain system, the very future position that God established for Joseph to oversee. So God cut off the baker's line before Joseph ever touched the storehouses. This looks like judgment, but it was protection. And the Lord was clearing the harvest field of leaven before promotion arrived. Then there was the cupbearer, the man who poured the wine, who carried what had already been crushed. Wine in Scripture is covenant, spirit, and joy. And when Joseph stands before Pharaoh, notice what he says. That humility lifts into authority. But many stop at the cupbearer level. They depend on being remembered by being discovered by the right person, reposted on the right platform, affirmed by the right voice. Joseph had to rise above that, or he would have remained a servant of Pharaoh's table instead of the architect of Pharaoh's harvest. So that's why God let the cupbearer forget him for two years. It wasn't really like delay, it was a detox. He had to be purified from man. He had to be purified from man-made validation so that when the door opened, he wouldn't bow to the one who mentioned his name. He would bow to the one who allowed him to be stripped of the coat of many colors, the one who removed him from his father's eyes so God could form him out of sight. The one who would let him be thrown into a pit so he could learn to hear away from the spirit of familiarity. Every stripping was an investment in authority. By the time Joseph speaks in the palace, the cupbearer fades into silence. The steward of wine has done his part. Now the governor of grain takes the throne. And this pattern is completed in Jesus. And when I read this, I can hear the echoing of the same plea to our generation. Remember me when it goes well with you. Remember me when the promotion comes. Remember me when you finally breathe between miracles. Remember me when you taste comfort again. When your platform grows and your name gets mentioned, will you mention mine? When you get your ten seconds of fame, when the light feels warm, will you still make time to kiss the sun? Don't leave me in the prison of dreams. Because like Joseph, you ruled in the basement of despair. You ruled the prisons of false accusation when nobody believed you. You ruled over temptation when Potiphar's wife tried to seduce the loyalty out of you. You ruled over sorcery when Egypt's magicians mocked what they couldn't interpret. You ruled the dock by keeping your integrity lit. The true test isn't whether you can rule in prison. It's whether you can operate in Pharaoh's house and not be contaminated by Pharaoh's table. Joseph walked through Egypt's chambers, clothed in linen and wrapped in purity. He interpreted Pharaoh's dreams without bowing to Pharaoh's gods. He managed Egypt's wealth, but he never sold his soul to Egypt's idols. And that's what the Spirit of God is saying right now. I'm looking for a Joseph generation who can steward influence without inhaling idolatry, who can stand in systems of power without letting power stand in them, who can touch gold and not be owned by it. Real kingdom maturity is moving in to Pharaoh's house while you're dripping with myrrh. Death to self, death to temptation, death to arrogance, death to appeasing Potiphar's wife's temporary intoxication with holy restraint. Egypt crowns the pride and forgets the slaves who built its monuments. They copied their master so well. I will ascend, I will be like the Most High. But the kingdom of God doesn't crown serpents, it crushes them. And before we shake our heads at Egypt, let's be real, okay? Some of us wear these same ornaments now. They're just digital. You go live, but you're dead. You put your life on the altar of attention trying to be like God. And we all think we're strong enough to handle it. We say, I'm covered by grace, I know the word, I'm not gonna get involved with the wrong crowd, I won't compromise. We think we can keep ministry friendships of the opposite sex that flirt with covenant lines. And I mean, who are we kidding? Is there anything more attractive than Christ-likeness? Sharing the intimacy of the mind of Christ is the closest you can get to somebody. And my God, you know, the temptation of safety, familiarity, and emotional attachment. We think we can click just one more view on that explore page at night and scroll through someone's story just to check in. This is the first time in history that we have to be responsible enough for social media stewardship. Just because it's available doesn't mean it's available to you. We think we can listen to old playlists that replace a memory that we should have buried. We tell ourselves it's harmless, but nostalgia is the serpent's favorite tactic, especially for a prophet and a seer. Did you know that your body doesn't even know the difference between a memory that you're revisiting and a moment that you're reliving? Your pulse doesn't ask for timestamps. Your hormones don't check the calendar, and your soul just continues to open up these same doors. So we gotta stop playing games with ourselves here. How many people do I gotta counsel through the wreckage of relational betrayal all because of that explore page at night? That soft-spoken algorithm that rewards your ego just for showing up, that quiet applause that pets your artificial intelligence and never tells you no. We are raising a generation that would rather confess to a chatbot than repent before a living God. People are doing counseling with a computer. I have to break it to you, there's nobody behind that screen. Pixels won't correct you, they just mirror you. And that moment of relief after you get it out, it feels freeing, right? Because it's supposed to. It's a counterfeit mechanism that God designed called confession. But digital confession without spiritual communion is an echo chamber. The Bible says confession. Confess your sins one to another that you may be healed. Because we are the temple of God, and healing flows through the body. Every honest confession becomes a fragrance of truth. Every yielded heart becomes a cloud of worship rising from the altar. But when you confess to a mirror, when you trade a bot for a jot, that confession stays locked in you. It's bouncing back the same weight just with a softer tone. And the serpent loves a mirror because it keeps you talking to yourself. He'll let you analyze, optimize, therapize forever, as long as you never get baptized in the fear of the Lord. Meanwhile, Jesus is on the hunt right now, yelling, Adam, I'm in the garden. Adam, where are you? And I'm pronouncing Adam like that for a reason. It means from the blood, from the ground, while Jesus rustles through the trees he's calling out. Adam, where is my image in you hiding? And he's scanning the garden, discerning which tree that you have chosen to stand beneath. Exposure is not the same as unbridled confession. Unbridled confession is when your soul stops negotiating with pride. Adam says, I heard the sound of you walking. And if you're hearing the sound of clarity in my voice today, if you can feel a rumbling underneath your ribs, I don't want you to think that you're just being emotional. There is a weighty atmosphere coming through these airways. And it's the pulse of the Lion of Judah on the move. Jesus said that there will be earthquakes in diverse places, but listen, I know you haven't heard this in church yet, but we are the earthquakes, the remnant shaking loose compromise, the bride trembling off the residue of religion. Every time truth hits a bone, an earthquake happens in the unseen. And the Hebrew says, they heard the sound. There's many times in the Bible when there is a sound that comes through. And in Hebrew, when it says they heard a sound, it is called Yahweh Elohim. And it means a voice in motion, presence attached to weight. And you must hear the sound. And if you've been glued to this message and it is resonating, that's the sound of God moving again, walking through the garden of your soul, calling your name through the rustle of the fig leaves. He's not coming to condemn your balance. He's coming to deposit seed. The auditor of heaven is walking through the accounts of humanity. Not to condemn the bankrupt, but to recover the inheritance. That same God who walked through Eden's garden. He showed up again on the hill of Galgotha. Jesus hung on the cross stationed between two thieves. This is courtroom imagery. This is the war that began in Genesis. Every story in Scripture carries an echo, and sometimes that echo travels generations before it finally gets answered. Joseph said, When it goes well with you, remember me. And the cupbearer forgot him. Centuries later, Jesus lifted a cup and said, Remember me. Then on Golgotha, the echo surfaced again. A dying thief, stripped of everything, whispered, Jesus, remember me. And for the first time since Eden, a man was bold enough not to hide. No fig leaves, no performance, just truth. And confession reopened what pride had closed. Jesus, the greater Joseph, finally heard the words that he'd been waiting for. And he said, Today you will be with me in paradise. And that one sentence stitched the whole story together. Joseph's prison, Adam's shame, and humanity's exile, Eden reopened, the ledger balanced. The thief's honesty restored communion. Because remember really means to remember, to put something broken back in the body. So every confession remembers you into the body of Christ. Every prayer of honesty removes the sword of Eden's entrance. Every time you tell the truth, heaven is parting its veil again. We are standing in the reopened garden. The gates are opening, and the bride is awakening in this hour. When you get to the end of the book of Revelation, the bride is not outside the gates. She's not in the outer courts begging for entry. She is standing inside the presence. She knows who she is. She is clothed in purity and the light of God. She is clothed in her gown without spot or wrinkle. She's the one standing with the Spirit. And together they are speaking in one voice, saying, Come. And I think that's where I'm gonna end it today, right in the middle of that word, come, because it's time to come out from among them. Come out of the fear, come out of the striving, and come back into the garden. I pray that this episode has helped you rediscover what Jesus is saying in Matthew 6, 33, that seeking first the kingdom of God is not about him adding more things. He's gonna fill in the gaps of what you choose to surrender. You've been listening to the Morologist Podcast, and we're gonna go deeper, even deeper in the next episode. 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. To find out more or connect with me, please visit my website, marissaintluke.com. We got a lot going on on this website. We have Hebrew name scrolls, prophetic crest designs, to be a witness in the earth, and to represent the kingdom of God and much more. So until next time, stay hungry, stay humble, and stay in the garden.