Seek First the Kingdom

Every week opens with scripture before a single level gets drawn. The most-repeated one is Matthew 6:33. Seek the kingdom of God first, and the rest gets added. George treats it as the order of operations for the whole session. First the heart. Then the chart.

What does it look like in practice? You come to the desk grounded. The Battle Plan still gets built. Strong Levels still get marked. But the market no longer owns your peace before the bell.

That same week, the prayer got personal. A trader leaning hard on something bigger than the next fill.

Seeking God is not passive. Neither is trading well. George anchors this to Jehoshaphat, a king who faced a coming army and made a deliberate choice. He feared. Then he set himself to seek the Lord and called a fast across the land. The verb matters. He set himself.

George draws the line straight to the desk. Intention is the whole game. You do not drift into a good trade any more than you drift into faith. Both get chosen. Both get set up on purpose, the same way you build a written trading plan before the open.

Here is the heartbeat of the whole page. Proverbs 16:9. A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. It holds two truths at once. You are responsible to plan. God is sovereign over the result. Neither cancels the other.

Plan hard. Then release it. George uses this verse to unclench the grip after the setup is right, never as an excuse for a sloppy one. He prays over it daily, and he prays for correction as much as direction.

The daily ask goes further than a request for winners. It is a prayer to be redirected if the path is wrong at all.

And the ask ties directly to stewardship. Direction covers more than profit. It means handling the day well.

Fear is the trader’s constant companion. Most cures for it fail because they lean on the same anxious self that created the fear. George names the real antidote plainly. You move the weight of trust off your own shoulders and onto God’s.

This reframes who provides. The market does not feed your family. The chart is not your source. Careful risk management becomes an act of trust, a way of honoring the One who actually provides.

That posture also redraws what success even means. Success means faithful obedience to your principles. Wait for the right ES futures opportunities. Let the rest go by.

Here is where faith meets the order button. You control three things. Your size. Your location. Your timing. Get those right and your job is finished. What price does next belongs to God. George surrenders it with a line borrowed from an old movie.

A twig on a mighty stream. You did your work. Now you ride the current instead of fighting it. This is the spiritual twin of a discipline George teaches everywhere else in the library, from holding a lotto runner without meddling to closing the platform and walking away. Once the plan is set, more supervision only gets in the way.

Trust holds up best on the hard days. When the trade fails, when the equipment breaks, when the plan gets disrupted, George reaches for the same anchor. God is faithful, and the obstacle may carry a purpose you cannot see yet.

So when a laptop fails and the tools will not load, George reacts with curiosity about the reason.

That mindset rests on a foundation set every single session. The righteous live by faith. And loving God with heart, soul, and mind comes first, before any tick prints.

Grounded there, you handle a losing trade with humility instead of panic. This is the quiet strength behind so much of the emotional discipline George coaches, and a natural companion to daily prayer and gratitude at the desk.