SEEK
HIS FACE
BREAD
4 Look to the LORD
and his strength; seek his face always. Psalm 105:4 (NIV)
21 When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, 22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was a
brute beast before you. 23 Yet
I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. 24 You guide me with your counsel, and
afterward you will take me into glory. 25 Whom
have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but
God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm
73:21-26 (NIV)
5 “The LORD will deliver them to you, and you
must do to them all that I have commanded you. 6
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of
them, for the LORD your God goes
with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” Deuteronomy
31:5-6 (NIV)
7 Hear
my voice when I call, O LORD; be
merciful to me and answer me. 8 My
heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, LORD,
I will seek. 9 Do not hide your
face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do
not reject me or forsake me, O God my Savior. 10
Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me. Psalm
27:7-10 (NIV)
10 Glory
in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice. 11 Look
to the LORD and his strength; seek
his face always. 1 Chronicles 16:10-11 (NIV)
5 Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it fully. Proverbs 28:5 (NIV)
6 And without faith it is impossible to please God,
because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards
those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:6 (NIV)
11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares
the LORD, “plans to prosper you
and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and
pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You
will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back from
captivity.” Jeremiah 29:11-14
6 Seek the LORD
while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Isaiah
55:6 (NIV)
7 “Ask and it will be given to
you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone
who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be
opened.” Matthew 7:7-8 (NIV)
8 Taste and see that the LORD
is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. 9 Fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him lack nothing. Psalm
34:8-9 (NIV)
3 Seek the LORD,
all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility. Zephaniah 2:3 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Do
you seek any further reward beyond that of having pleased God? In truth, you know not how great a good it is
to please Him.”
John
Chrysostom
“Seeking
with faith, hope, and love pleases our Lord; and finding Him pleases the soul,
filling it full of joy.” Julian of Norwich
“Let
us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to
please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God’s work, done in God’s
way, will never lack God’s supplies.”
Hudson Taylor
“The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where you would least expect Him.” Ann Voskamp
“Don’t slack off seeking, striving, and
praying for the very same things that we exhort unconverted people to strive
for, and a degree of which you have had in conversion. Thus pray that your eyes
may be opened, that you may receive sight, that you may know yourself and be
brought to God’s feet, and that you may see the glory of God and Christ, may be
raised from the dead, and have the love of Christ shed abroad in your heart.
Those that have most of these things still need to pray for them; for there so
much blindness and hardness and pride and death remaining that they still need
to have that work of God upon them, further to enlighten and enliven them. This
will be a further bringing out of darkness into God’s marvelous light, and a
kind of new conversion…” Jonathan Edwards
“God is the only source of
true happiness, because He offers those intangibles that we mistakenly believe can
be found on earth: contentment, security,
peace, and hope for the future. None of
these can be found in a job, a human relationship, money, power, or position. They are God’s alone to give…The Lord Jesus,
in the Sermon on the Mount, told where ultimate happiness lies: ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for
righteousness, for they shall be filled.’ Matthew 5:6.
This is God’s promise and it is true.”
Billy Graham
“Keep
bringing your prayers to God. If you think your request is legitimate, keep
asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. God wants to teach us through persistent
praying to wait on Him and to watch. While we're praying and waiting for God to
answer our prayers, do you know what He's doing? He's working on us,
conforming us more and more to the image of Christ. And when we're ready, the
answer will surely come.” David Jeremiah
“Just as surely as God implants the life cell in the tiny seed that
produces the mighty oak...as surely as He instills the heartbeat in the life of
the tiny infant yet unborn…as surely as He puts motion into the planets, stars,
and heavenly bodies – so He implants His divine life in the hearts of those who
earnestly seek Him through Christ…But has it happened to you? If not, you are not only unfit for the
kingdom of God – you are cheating yourself out of the greatest, most
revolutionary experience known to any human being. By a simple prayer of faith ask Christ into
your life right now. He will come in,
and you will be born again!” Billy
Graham
HEART SAVOR
· God never turns away a seeking heart.
· God reward those who earnestly seek Him with more of Him – the pearl
of great price, the I AM. 13 “If you then, though you are evil, know how
to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven
give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Luke 11:13 (NIV)
· Seek His face always.
