FAITH CAPSULE: Seek God with all your heart and soul, and you will find Him.
1 Samuel 3
What kind of believer are you?
What is the state of your heart in seeking and serving God?
The word of God describes Samuel, “So Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the Lord. Then the Lord appeared again in Shiloh. For the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord.” (1 Samuel 3: 19-21)
The kind of one living for God is the state of his heart that describes Samuel.
He focused on God and the reason none of his words fell.
God is not interested in how you run around or appear to your world on the ground of worship.
The word of God points it in the pages of the Bible about how He is only interested in the state of hearts seeking and serving Him.
Here are some Scriptural verses that buttress seeking God with all heart and not by look and appearance:
Deuteronomy 4:29, “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.”
1 Chronicles 28:9, “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.”
2 Chronicles 15:12, “Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.”
Psalm 119:2, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
Jeremiah 29:13, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
God is found able but desperate of wicked heart of all sets all far from God.
In your service unto God, are you running in the act without the heart for God?
Know that the Lord is the God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. (1 Samuel 2:3)
Brethren can mistake you (take you for what you are not); pastors can misrepresent you, but God is perfect to identify all.
Are you one whose heart does not line up with God?
Who is looking at your outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart?
Peace, joy, deliverance, victory, salvation, and breakthrough are among the blessings that identify with God.
Let the character of God mark you as identity.
Seek God with all your heart and soul.
Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live fully in obedience to His word.