Why Do I need to Seek God?

Why seek God? Our creator who in his mercy and power created us to be the very best that He has planned for us.

Just a few things before you begin studying for you to study and reflect on. I always pray before I study the word of God, asking for His wisdom and insight and that He will teach and show me the things that He wants me to see, that He will remove the distractions (they will come) and help you to focus on His word. Also think and reflect on the scriptures, ask yourself questions, make it personal.

(Some of the scripture quotes are KJV but you can read it in NIV or whatever version you have.

Jeremiah 29:11-16

God tells us in this passage that He has plans for our lives, we can always rely on God's plans because He loves us. Satan also has a plan for your life. God guarantees you that if you seek Him with all of heart, He will be found by you. What have you sought with all of your heart? Have you sought God with all of your heart?

Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

It takes action for us to receive the blessings of God. Ask, knowing that God will answer. Seek, knowing that your search is not in vain. Knock, confident that you will be acknowledged and God will welcome you into His kingdom. But, you have to do something!

Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.

Acts 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.

Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

God's plan is that we would seek him, He placed you here now and me so that we would meet, it not coincidence, but part of Gods divine plan.

2 Chronicles 12:14 he did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord.

God sees it as evil when we don't seek him. Those who do good and still do not seek God do evil! It is arrogance and pride when we believe we can live without the One who created us.

2 Chronicles 15:12 They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their Fathers with all their heart and soul. All who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.

They took seeking God serious. There were no short cuts or excuses. No one was excluded. We must seek God wholeheartedly and eagerly. God promises that we will find Him. (2 Chronicles 15:12; Jeremiah 29:14).

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