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SEEKING GOD - TOPICAL STUDY |
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The Verse
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Deut 4:29 |
But, if from there (from captivity) - from our place of
sin and bondage |
2 Chron. 14:4 - Asa (king) commanded Judah to … seek the
Lord & Obey his commandments |
When should we seek God? |
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Deut 4:29 |
You seek the Lord Your God (a recognition of our place in
submission to God) |
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Who do we seek? |
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Deut 4:29 |
You will find Him (a promise) |
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Promise |
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Deut 4:29 |
IF you look for Him with all your heart and soul (our
whole being must be taken up with God. He is not interested in casual
seekers. ) |
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How do we seek God? |
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Deut 4:29 |
IF you look for Him with all your heart and soul (our
whole being must be taken up with God. He is not interested in casual
seekers. ) |
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Who can seek God? |
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Psalm 105:4 |
Look to (search for)
the Lord and His strength |
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Who do we seek? |
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Psalm 105:4 |
Seek His face always (or keep on searching) |
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How long do we seek? |
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Isaiah 55:6 |
Seek the Lord while He may be found. (There is a limited
time to do so). |
Jer. 29.13 |
Time of seeking |
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Isaiah 55:6 |
Call on Him while He is near (again there seems a time
constraint.) |
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Time of seeking |
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Jer. 29: 13 |
You will seek me and find me ( a promise) |
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Promise |
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Jer. 29: 13 |
When you seek me with all of your heart ( demands a
wholehearted commitment) |
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How do we seek God? |
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Hosea 10:12 |
Sow for yourselves righteousness |
Amos 5:4 |
Preparation for Seeking |
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Hosea 10:12 |
Reap the fruit of unfailing love and |
Zeph 2:3 |
Preparation for Seeking |
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Hosea 10:12 |
Break up your fallow ground (unplowed) |
Matt 6:33 |
Preparation for Seeking |
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Hosea 10:12 |
For it is time to seek the Lord, |
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Time of seeking |
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Hosea 10:12 |
Until He comes and showers righteousness on you. |
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How long do we seek God? |
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Amos 5:14 |
Seek good not evil, that we may live |
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What do we seek? |
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Amos 5:14 |
Then the Lord your God will be with you just as you say He
is. |
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Promise |
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Zeph 2:3 |
Seek the Lord all you humble of the land |
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Who can seek God? |
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Zeph 2:3 |
You who do what He commands (this qualifies who the humble
is) |
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Who can seek God? |
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Zeph 2:3 |
Seek Righteousness |
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What do we seek? |
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Zeph 2:3 |
Seek humility |
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What do we seek? |
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Zeph 2:3 |
Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord's
anger. |
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Promise??? |
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Matt. 6:33 |
But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, |
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Who/what do we seek? |
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And all these things (all the things needed in life) will
be given to you as well. |
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Promise |
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Luke 11:9-10 |
So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; |
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Command to seek God |
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Luke 11:9-10 |
Seek and you will find; |
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Command to seek God |
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Luke 11:9-10 |
knock and the door will be opened to you. |
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Command to seek God |
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Luke 11:9-10 |
For everyone who asks receives; |
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Promise |
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Luke 11:9-10 |
he who seeks finds: |
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Promise |
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Luke 11:9-10 |
and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. |
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Promise |
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Acts 17: 27 |
God did this (gave life and breath to everything and
satisfies every need there is) so that men would seek Him and perhaps reach
out for Him and find Him |
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God wants to be found! |
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Acts 17: 27 |
though he is not far from each one of us. |
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Is God Far Away? |
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2 Chron 11:16 |
Those from every tribe of Israel who set their hearts (a
choice we make with our wills) on seeking the Lord, the God of Israel |
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Examples of seeking God |
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2 Chron. 14:7 |
Let us build up these towns, King Asa said to Judah, and
put walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours,
because we have sought the Lord our God; |
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Result of seeking God |
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2 Chron. 14:7 |
we sought Him and he has given us rest on every side. So
they built and prospered. |
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Result of seeking God |
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2 Chron. 17:3-4 |
The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because in his early years
he walked in the ways his father David had followed. |
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Result of seeking God |
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2 Chron. 17:3-4 |
He did not consult the Baals but sought the God of his
father |
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How not to seek God |
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2 Chron. 17:3-4 |
And followed his commands rather than the practices of
Israel. |
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How do we seek God? |
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2 Chron 26:5 |
He (Uzziah King of Judah) sought God during the days of
Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God |
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How do we seek God? |
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2 Chron 26:5 |
As long as he sought the Lord, God gave Him success. |
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Result of Seeking God |
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Ezra 8:21 |
I (Ezra) proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble
ourselves before God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children,
with all our possessions. |
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Reason to seek God? |
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Ezra 8:22b |
The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to
him, |
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Result of seeking God |
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Ezra 8:22b |
But his great anger is against all who forsake him. |
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Result of NOT seeking God |
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Ezra 8:23 |
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he
answered our prayer. |
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Result of seeking God |
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Ps. 24:3-4 |
Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? |
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Who can seek God? |
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Ps. 24:3-4 |
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, and who does not
lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false |
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Who can seek God? |
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Ps. 24:4-5 |
He will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication
from God His saviour. |
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Result of seeking God |
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Ps. 24:4-5 |
Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek
your face O God of Jacob. |
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Result of seeking God |
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Ps. 27:8 |
My heart says of you, "Seek His Face!" Your
face, Lord, I will seek |
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Who do we seek? |
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Psalm 119:10 |
I seek you with all my heart; |
2 Chron 15:15 |
How do we seek God? |
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Psalm 119:10 |
Do not let me stray from your commands |
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Obedience and Seeking God closely tied |
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2 Chron. 15:12 |
And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God
of their Fathers, and to yearn for Him with all their heart's desire and with
all their soul: (AMP) |
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How do we seek God? |
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2 Chron 15:15A |
And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn
with all their heart and sought Him with their whole desire, |
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How do we seek God? |
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2 Chron 15:15B |
and he was found by them. |
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Results of seeking God |
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Daniel 9:3 |
So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with Him in prayer
and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. |
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Example of seeking for God |
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John 12: 21 |
They came to Phillip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee,
with a request. "Sir" , they said, "we would like to see
Jesus." |
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Example of seeking for God |
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Mark 1:37 |
and when they found him everyone exclaimed: "Everyone
is looking for you!" |
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Example of seeking Christ |
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Luke 4:42 |
At daybreak Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people
were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep
him from leaving them. |
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Example of seeking Christ |
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Luke 19:3 |
He (Zacchaeus) wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a
short man he could not, because of the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a
sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. |
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Example of seeking Christ |
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Luke 19:4 |
When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him,
"Zacchaeus, come down immediately, I must stay at your house
today." |
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God seeks for us |
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John 6:24 |
Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his
disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search
of Jesus. |
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Example of seeking Christ |
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Job 23:3 |
If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to
his dwelling! |
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Earning for God |
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Hosea 6:3 |
Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to
acknowledge him. |
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Earning for God |
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Hosea 6:3 |
As surely as the sun rises he will appear; he will come to
us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth. |
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Promise |
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Matt 18:12, 14 |
If a man loses even 1 sheep from his flock of 100 he will
go to look for it. In the same way your Father in Heaven is not willing that
any of these little ones be lost. |
Luke 15:4 -same vs. |
God seeks for us |
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Luke 19:10 |
For the son of man came to seek and to save what was lost.
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God seeks for us |
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John 1:43 |
The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding
Phillip, he said to him, "Follow me". |
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God seeks for us |
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John 5:14 |
Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him,
"See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to
you." |
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God seeks for us |
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John 9:35 |
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he
found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man? " |
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God seeks for us |
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Jer 31:3 |
The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have
loved you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with lovingkindness."
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Why are we even able to seek God? |
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John 3: 16 |
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. |
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Where do we find God? |
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Romans 5:8 |
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we
were yet sinners Christ died for us. |
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Why are we even able to seek God? |
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Eph. 2:4-5 |
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in
mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--
it is by grace you have been saved. |
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Where do we find God? |
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1 John 3:1 |
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that
we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are! The reason
the world does not know us is that it did not know him. |
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Why are we even able to seek God? |
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Ps. 42:1-2a |
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants
for you O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. |
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How do we seek God? |
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Ps. 73:25 |
Whom have I in Heaven but you? And earth has nothing I
desire besides you. |
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Why do we seek God? |
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Ps. 84:2 |
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. |
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How do we seek God? |