What does God want us to seek?
SEEK GOD'S FACE
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice:
have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee,
Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Hide not thy face far from me;
put not thy servant away in anger:
thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
Psa 27:7-9
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SEEK GOD'S WISDOM
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read:
Isa 34:16a
He taught me also, and said unto me,
Let thine heart retain my words:
keep my commandments, and live.
{5} Get wisdom, get understanding:
forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
{6} Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee:
love her, and she shall keep thee.
{7} Wisdom is the principal thing;
therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
{8} Exalt her, and she shall promote thee:
she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
{9} She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace:
a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Prov 4:4-9 (KJV)
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SEEK GOD THE CREATOR
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens;
God himself that formed the earth and made it;
he hath established it, he created it not in vain,
he formed it to be inhabited:
I am the LORD; and there is none else.
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth:
I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain:
I the LORD speak righteousness,
I declare things that are right.
Isa 45:18-19
Thus saith God the LORD,
He that created the heavens, and stretched them out;
He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it;
He that giveth breath unto the people upon it,
and spirit to them that walk therein:
{6} I the LORD have called thee in righteousness,
and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee,
and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
{7} To open the blind eyes,
to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
{8} I am the LORD: that is my name:
and my glory will I not give to another,
neither my praise to graven images.
{9} Behold, the former things are come to pass,
and new things do I declare:
before they spring forth I tell you of them.
{10} Sing unto the LORD a new song,
and his praise from the end of the earth,
Isa 42:5-10a (KJV)
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SEEK FOR GOD WHILE HE GIVES THE OPPORTUNITY
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found,
call ye upon him while he is near:
Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts:
and let him return unto the LORD,
and he will have mercy upon him;
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isa 55:6-9
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SEEK GOD HIMSELF
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel,
Seek ye Me,
and ye shall live:
Amos 5:4
Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD,
and in the audience of our God,
keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God:
that ye may possess this good land,
and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
{9} And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father,
and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind:
for the LORD searcheth all hearts,
and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts:
if thou seek him, he will be found of thee;
but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
1 Chr 28:8-9 (KJV)
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SEEK ETERNAL LIFE
Fight the good fight of faith,
lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called,
and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
1 Tim 6:12
Therefore take no thought, saying,
What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?
or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
{32} (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:)
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
{33} But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.
{34} Take therefore no thought for the morrow:
for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Mat 6:31-34 (KJV)
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended:
but this one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind,
and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
{14} I press toward the mark
for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Phil 3:13-14 (KJV)
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SEEK A RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff,
before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you,
before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth,
which have obeyed his judgment;
seek righteousness, seek meekness:
it may be ye shall be hid{H=be absent} in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Zep 2:2-3
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy
findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Prov 21:21 (KJV)
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
{9} But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare,
and into many foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction and perdition.
{10} For the love of money is the root of all evil:
which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith,
and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things;
and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
{12} Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life,
whereunto thou art also called,
and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
{13} I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things,
and before Christ Jesus,
who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
{14} That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable,
until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1 Tim 6:8-14 (KJV)
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SEEK GOD'S PRIORITIES
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:33
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people,
that I may discern between good and bad:
for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
{10} And the speech pleased the Lord,
that Solomon had asked this thing.
{11} And God said unto him,
Because thou hast asked this thing,
and hast not asked for thyself long life;
neither hast asked riches for thyself,
nor hast asked the life of thine enemies;
but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
{12} Behold, I have done according to thy words:
lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart;
so that there was none like thee before thee,
neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
1 Ki 3:9-12 (KJV)
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SEEK, JESUS, THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE
Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him,
went forth, and said unto them,
Whom seek ye?
They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus saith unto them, I Am.
And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
As soon then as he had said unto them,
I Am,
they went backward, and fell to the ground.
John 18:4-6
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
{8} For every one that asketh receiveth;
and he that seeketh findeth;
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Mat 7:7-8 (KJV)
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day;
lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
{14} For we are made partakers of Christ,
if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
{15} While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice,
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Heb 3:13-15 (KJV)
And {Jesus} said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above:
ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
{24} I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins:
for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
John 8:23-24 (KJV)
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