Posts Tagged ‘ Seek ’
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Psalm 139:23-24, ESV
God knows our hearts and minds, yet He still loves us. If we seek Him, He will make us clean and conform us to be like Jesus.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1, ESV
If we do things for the sake of those things or to be better, but not because we love God or to love others, those things are useless and distracting.
Seek God first, and seek to bring others into God’s love, and everything we do will have godly purpose.
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 Chronicles 16:11, ESV
All good things come from God, and when this lost world is at it’s craziest we can find freedom, strength, and peace in Him alone.
The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
Nahum 1:7, ESV
Nothing can separate us from the love of God, and He enjoys when we seek Him.
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31, ESV
God empowers those who seek Him to endure the troubles of this world and to impact this world for Christ with the Gospel.
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1 John 5:14, ESV
Some teach that God says we can ask for literally anything, even declare and decree we have it. Yet God’s Word is clear: anything according to God’s will.
Seek first His Kingdom …
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord , that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”
Isaiah 55:6-7, ESV
God has not abandoned us. We abandoned Him. We have until Christ’s return to repent of our sinfulness and put our faith in the One who has continued to seek after us.
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:13, ESV
Nothing in this world ever truly goes the way we expect, but if we seek and worship God in every circumstance, we will find He was always there.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
James 1:5, ESV
God would rather we make wise decisions, the wisest being to follow (obey and emulate) His Son.
Seek first His Kingdom and righteousness.
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:6, ESV
We either push God away or draw near to Him.
How do we draw near? By faith in Him, through reading the Bible, and through fellowship with other believers.
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