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SEEKING GOD FOR YOUR YEAR

January 23, 2025

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 he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8

1. SEEK GOD THROUGH HIS WORD. What a beautiful invitation from the God who knows the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. Meditating on the Scriptures allows us to think the thoughts of God, whose thoughts are higher than ours: “Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near . . . . For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:6-9). From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. It is God-breathed, emanating from the Creator’s heart. It is a roadmap for this life and for eternity, directing us to what we are called to do and who we are called to be.

2. SEEK GOD WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART. Seek, call, knock, and ask – these are all action words. As Jesus-followers, we are to be people of action: “Let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth” (1 John 3:18). Jesus warned against honoring God with words while having hearts far from Him (Isaiah 29:13; Matthew 15:8). In all my relationships, particularly with God, I don’t want to only offer lip service. I want to seek God with my whole heart. Remember, it’s about your heart, not about perfection: King David was called a man after God’s own heart, but if you look at his example, he fell, and he succeeded, he achieved, and he missed it. He was a classic human being. But he kept running after God.

3. UNLIMITED SEEKING EQUALS UNLIMITED FINDING. “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter” (Proverbs 25:2). God has hidden treasures for us, not from us. The apostle Paul prayed that the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened and that we would be strengthened with might and power by His Spirit in the inner man (Ephesians 1:17; 3:16). God wants to disclose the richness, magnitude, and depth of His wisdom and understanding to us. It is important that we set time aside to seek God – to fast, to pray, to write things down. It’s like what Habakkuk was told: Record the vision, write it down on tablets, make it plain, and keep it simple so the one who reads it may run. (Habakkuk 2:2-4). As you seek God, you will find Him!

PRAY THIS PRAYER AS YOU SEEK GOD THIS WEEK! 
God, when I call to You, I know You answer and tell me great and mighty things that I do not know. I pray that God, You give me a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. I pray that the eyes of my heart may be enlightened so that I will know what is the hope of Your calling, what are the riches of the glory of Your inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of Your power toward me. I declare that Your purpose will be established in my life in Jesus’ Name, Amen (Jeremiah 33:3; Ephesians 1:17-19; Isaiah 46:10).

seek, verb
1. To try to locate or discover; search for
2. To endeavor to obtain or reach
3. To go to or toward
4. To inquire for; request

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