FAITH CAPSULE: Have the desire, not just determination, to seek God.
Matthew 6
One with the desire to seek God diligently will gain and retain the presence of God.
Let prayer, not just determination but desire that will back one to seek God diligently.
In this wicked world, come out of religion, and give yourself to a commitment to God.
Commitment to God is seeking God diligently.
How are you seeking God?
What is the purpose of your need to seek God?
Seek God diligently seeking God is to seek Him first.
Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Seeking God is the testimony of those who love God.
Proverbs 8:17 confirms, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.”
Seek God diligently to be rewarded by God.
Hebrews 11:6 records, “…he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Seeking God with heart and soul is seeking God diligently to find God as Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Seeking God diligently to find God is serving God.
Serving God is living life for God.
Living life for God will follow the word of God right.
Seeking God being righteous as Isaiah 51:1 states, “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord…”
Today, give yourself to the word of God, listen consistently, and gain the wisdom and knowledge not to become a victim.
Jeremiah 16:12 testified, “each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart so that no one listens to Me.”
Seek God diligently, serving God.
Serving God is following God with no hidden agenda because God knows all.
The word of God demands and declares what it means to follow God in John 12:26, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.”
Give self to seeking God diligently to find God.
Believe and know that if it is not possible to seek God diligently, to find Him, He would not have asked us to seek Him diligently.
Above all, one that follows God cannot fall into darkness as declared by the word of God that is true.
John 8:12 confirms, “He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.”
God is true. Seek God diligently to find Him.
One that seeks God diligently is the evidence of the servant of the Lord.
Serve God by living life for God to gain His promises and not be a victim of the wicked world.
Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to establish you in serving Him diligently.