Deuteronomy 4:29-31, "If from there you will seek the LORD your God, then you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and soul. "In your distress, when all these things happen to you in days to come and you return to the LORD your God, then you will hear his voice. For God is compassionate. The LORD your God won't fail you. He won't destroy you or forget the covenant that he confirmed with your ancestors."
Seeking the Lord, what does that really mean? And are we doing it right now? Are we putting everything into seeking God with our whole heart, soul, body, life, and strength? If we are not, this is why things in our life are happening to us. We cannot serve two masters and I found out I was. The one master was not doing me any good at all was the one I was serving the most. The one I really needed was the one I ignored, except when I would need something or when I was in trouble.
1 Chronicles 28:8-10, Therefore, in the presence of all of Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and while our God is listening, observe and search through all of the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may continue to possess this good land, leaving it for an inheritance forever to benefit your descendants who come after you." "Now as for you, my son Solomon, get to know the God of your father. Serve him with a sound heart and a devoted soul, because the LORD is searching every heart, every plan and thought. He will be found by you, assuming you are seeking him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you forever. So keep watching, because the LORD has chosen you to build the Temple of his sanctuary. So be strong, and get to work!"
Here Solomon was chosen to build a house, a sanctuary of the Lord and he was to build it to the pattern that the Spirit had given him. He would not have been able to do that if he was not seeking after the Lord. He knew who the Lord was, and he knew what the Lord wanted because he sought the commandment of the Lord.
We have been chosen to build a house for the Lord, I'm talking about the temple of our body so God can have a place to live. He then placed everything in our temple so we can be ready. We can only receive life through HIGHER VISION, if we walk in what's being revealed, that's where life is. If we don't seek the lord, then we are lost and doomed.
2 Chronicles 15:2-7, so he went out to meet Asa and rebuked him: "Listen to me, Asa, Judah, and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will allow you to find him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you. Israel lived for years without the true God, priests to teach them, and the Law, but they turned to the LORD God of Israel in their distress. When they sought him, he let them become reacquainted with him. "During those days, it wasn't safe for anyone to come and go, because many civil disturbances afflicted everyone who lived in the territories. Nation battled nation, and city fought city, because God was afflicting them all with every kind of distress. Now as for you, be strong and never be discouraged, because there will be reward for your work."
How long have we been without the anointing, the teacher, of the Lord. How long have we served the other master and not seek not the real one, whose lifeblood gives us eternal life. Have we shut Him out, only call on him when we are in trouble or need something? It pays to be ready all the time, we don't know when something will happen. It is better to have a hedge around you and be protected in the arms of the Lord, then to walk in sin and death. There's only one way to serve God, and that way is obeying what he says.
2 Chronicles 19:3, Nevertheless, a few good things have been found in you, in that you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have disciplined yourself to seek God."
Now we have to prepare our hearts to seek God. And how do we do that? The BAPTISM OF REPENTENCE has to take place in our heart first. We have to show repentance, sorrowing after God, showing Him we are sorry for the sin we are doing and the way we treat one another.
When repentance has worked in you then the next step to receive the Holy Ghost. From there, God will start to talk to us, if we seek him with our whole heart, soul, body.
2 Chronicles 30:18-20, Even though a large crowd of people from as far away as Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not completed consecrating themselves, they still ate the Passover in a manner not proscribed by the Law, because Hezekiah had prayed like this for them: "May the good LORD extend a pardon on behalf of (19) everyone who prepares his own heart to seek God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even though he does so inconsistent with the laws of consecration." (20) The LORD listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.
2 Chronicles 31:21, Everything that Hezekiah began in the service of God's Temple was done according to the Law and to the commandments as he sought his God, worked with all of his heart, and became successful.
2 Chronicles 34:1-4, Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for 31 years in Jerusalem. He practiced what the LORD considered to be right, following the example of his ancestor David, turning neither to the right nor to the left. In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year of his reign, he began to remove the high places, Asherim, carved images, and cast images from Judah and Jerusalem. They tore down the altars of Baals in his presence. He chopped down the incense altars that stood high above them. He broke into pieces the Asherim, the carved images, and the cast images, ground them to dust, and scattered the residue on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
Robert Blanton
Seeking the Lord, what does that really mean? And are we doing it right now? Are we putting everything into seeking God with our whole heart, soul, body, life, and strength? If we are not, this is why things in our life are happening to us. We cannot serve two masters and I found out I was. The one master was not doing me any good at all was the one I was serving the most. The one I really needed was the one I ignored, except when I would need something or when I was in trouble.
1 Chronicles 28:8-10, Therefore, in the presence of all of Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and while our God is listening, observe and search through all of the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may continue to possess this good land, leaving it for an inheritance forever to benefit your descendants who come after you." "Now as for you, my son Solomon, get to know the God of your father. Serve him with a sound heart and a devoted soul, because the LORD is searching every heart, every plan and thought. He will be found by you, assuming you are seeking him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you forever. So keep watching, because the LORD has chosen you to build the Temple of his sanctuary. So be strong, and get to work!"
Here Solomon was chosen to build a house, a sanctuary of the Lord and he was to build it to the pattern that the Spirit had given him. He would not have been able to do that if he was not seeking after the Lord. He knew who the Lord was, and he knew what the Lord wanted because he sought the commandment of the Lord.
We have been chosen to build a house for the Lord, I'm talking about the temple of our body so God can have a place to live. He then placed everything in our temple so we can be ready. We can only receive life through HIGHER VISION, if we walk in what's being revealed, that's where life is. If we don't seek the lord, then we are lost and doomed.
2 Chronicles 15:2-7, so he went out to meet Asa and rebuked him: "Listen to me, Asa, Judah, and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will allow you to find him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you. Israel lived for years without the true God, priests to teach them, and the Law, but they turned to the LORD God of Israel in their distress. When they sought him, he let them become reacquainted with him. "During those days, it wasn't safe for anyone to come and go, because many civil disturbances afflicted everyone who lived in the territories. Nation battled nation, and city fought city, because God was afflicting them all with every kind of distress. Now as for you, be strong and never be discouraged, because there will be reward for your work."
How long have we been without the anointing, the teacher, of the Lord. How long have we served the other master and not seek not the real one, whose lifeblood gives us eternal life. Have we shut Him out, only call on him when we are in trouble or need something? It pays to be ready all the time, we don't know when something will happen. It is better to have a hedge around you and be protected in the arms of the Lord, then to walk in sin and death. There's only one way to serve God, and that way is obeying what he says.
2 Chronicles 19:3, Nevertheless, a few good things have been found in you, in that you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have disciplined yourself to seek God."
Now we have to prepare our hearts to seek God. And how do we do that? The BAPTISM OF REPENTENCE has to take place in our heart first. We have to show repentance, sorrowing after God, showing Him we are sorry for the sin we are doing and the way we treat one another.
When repentance has worked in you then the next step to receive the Holy Ghost. From there, God will start to talk to us, if we seek him with our whole heart, soul, body.
2 Chronicles 30:18-20, Even though a large crowd of people from as far away as Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not completed consecrating themselves, they still ate the Passover in a manner not proscribed by the Law, because Hezekiah had prayed like this for them: "May the good LORD extend a pardon on behalf of (19) everyone who prepares his own heart to seek God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even though he does so inconsistent with the laws of consecration." (20) The LORD listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.
2 Chronicles 31:21, Everything that Hezekiah began in the service of God's Temple was done according to the Law and to the commandments as he sought his God, worked with all of his heart, and became successful.
2 Chronicles 34:1-4, Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for 31 years in Jerusalem. He practiced what the LORD considered to be right, following the example of his ancestor David, turning neither to the right nor to the left. In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year of his reign, he began to remove the high places, Asherim, carved images, and cast images from Judah and Jerusalem. They tore down the altars of Baals in his presence. He chopped down the incense altars that stood high above them. He broke into pieces the Asherim, the carved images, and the cast images, ground them to dust, and scattered the residue on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
Robert Blanton
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