Seek Him

When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.” Psalm 27:8

Is the Lord tugging at your heart to spend some time with Him? If so, don’t be concerned about the everyday hub-bub; He will take care of all of that as you obey and pull away to seek Him.

Does the Lord seem to be far, far away? Have you grown numb from circumstances piling in on you, and now don’t have the energy to spend on God? If that’s you, I want to encourage you—He is near. He cares, and He longs for you to know that. The Bible promises that if you draw near to God, He will draw near to you (see James 4:8). Seek Him. He will hear the faintest whisper from the weariest one of us, and He will lift you up.

So many Scriptures speak about seeking the Lord. Although you and I are called to a 24/7 communication with the living God, the Bible also reveals that there will be times when God prompts you into a special season of seeking Him, a time in which you set aside other activities to draw close to Him.

This is what I will be doing for the next few weeks. Since I will be laying aside my blog for a period of time to spend time with the Lord, I want to leave you with some encouraging verses about seeking Him. Soak in them and pick out one or two that really speak to you. Copy them for yourself to think on as you draw near to God. Enjoy!

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.  Deuteronomy 4:29

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! 1 Chronicles 16:11

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. Psalm 9:10

The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. Psalm 14:2

The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Psalm 34:10

But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!” Psalm 40:16

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.  Psalm 63:1

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart…Psalm 119:2

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! Psalm 119:10

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. Proverbs 8:17

“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

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile. Jeremiah 29:12-14

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. Lamentations 3:25

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:33

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us…Acts 17:26-27

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

God bless you as you seek Him. See you sometime in February (or before if the Lord leads me that way).

Dorothy