MGD: The Pursuit of God - 2

Sharllon beloved, Welcome to our morning, glory, devotion, and our

time of fellowship in the Word of God. Let's share

a word of prayer. Father, We thank you. We give

you praise for another opportunity to be a part of

the great things that you are doing. We acknowledge your

sovereignty over our lives. Thank you for this morning. Thank

you for all that you're about to teach us. We

open up our hearts to receive from you in Jesus name. Amen,

this is your brother and sister, pastor and missus Amasa

facilitating this morning's glory. Let's take our confession together from

Joshua chapter one, verse eight. This book of the Lord

shall not depart out of my mouth, that I shall

meditate in its day and night, that I may observe

to do according to all that is rating in it.

For then I will make my way prosperous, and then

I will have good success in man. A scripture reading

for the morning shall be taken from Jeremiah chapter twenty nine,

the verse ten to fourteen. Jeremiah twenty nine, ten to fourteen,

I read from the New King James version, For that

says the Lord after seventy years are completed at Babylon.

I will visit you and perform my good word toward you,

and cause you to return to this place. For I

know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord,

thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you

a future and a hope. Then you will call upon

me and go and pray to me, and I will

listen to you, and you will seek me and find

me when you search for me with all your heart.

I'll be found by you, says the Lord. And I'll

bring you back from your captivity. I'll gather you from

all the nations and from all the places where I

have driven you, says the Lord. And I'll bring you

to the place from which I cause you to be

carried away captive a man.

The pursuit of God, the pursuit of God Beloved. We

learned from yesterday's devotion that God desires that we build

a relationship with him, and we build a living and

loving relationship with him. We also learned that he is

a key to our existence and the source of our life,

so it's very important that we build a relationship with

Him for sustenance. In building a relationship with him, We

must seek to know him, We must pursue him. In

Jeremiah twenty nine, there's deads and we hear God say,

and you will seek me and find me when you

search for me with all your hearts. Seeking him doesn't

only have to do with that strong emotion to know him. Rather,

that strong desire must necessarily provoke an action. So how

do we seek him diligently? How do we pursue God diligently?

Pursue him in prayer? Praying, as we all know, is

a form of communication with God. Well, we speak to him,

and he intend speaks back to us. Pursue him by

steadying his word. The word of God has God himself.

His word communicates his thoughts, his plans, his instructions, his heart.

His word reveals who he is to us. Pursue him

through fastings. Just as Job said in Joke twenty three vers. Twelve,

we should desire the words of his mouth more than

our necessary food, For we do not live by bread alone,

but by everywhere that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

We can pursue him in worship, pursue him in praise,

pursue him in fellowship, we must pursue him in action,

and not just with our emotions. Beloved, seeking him brings

great rewards to us. In Hebrews eleven, verse six, he

assures us of his rewards as we diligently seek him.

Seeking him brings us rest. Seeking him brings us deliverance

In him brings understanding and descendments. Seeking him brings hope.

Seeking him brings righteousness. Seeking him brings us healing, along

with all the other fascal blessings that our heart's desire.

He has assured us that as we delight ourselves in Him,

he will grant us the desires of our hearts. Dear one,

knowing all of this, it's our best interest to pursue

and seek a relationship with God. We have far more

to gain, and we stand to lose a lot without

this relationship with God. So if we will live this

Christian life, let us rise up to do it, and

to do it well, and we will be the first beneficiaries.

Let us not tire, but rather let us forge our head,

and God will meet us in Jesus name, Amen, Amen,

our memory. Verse will be taken from Deuteronomy chapter four,

verse twenty nine. The trinomy chapter four of US twenty nine.

But from there you will seek the Lord your God,

and you will find him if you search for him

with all your heart and soul. But from there you

will seek the Lord your God, and you will find

him if you've search for him with all your heart.

And so in Jesus name, let us pray our Lord

Jesus grant us the grace and the hat to seek

and pursue you more diligently in Jesus mighty name. Amen.

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