New Focus: Keep Seeking (#884)
Today we’re are going to continue a series we started a few weeks ago on having a new focus in life; trying to raise your vision of what you focus on and look at. Today we’ll talk today about the importance of seeking the Lord. Let’s start in Deuteronomy chapter 4.
Taught by Bruce Mahone 20151101, all rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
Deut 4:23-31               If you seek the Lord, you will find him (vs. 29)
I Chron 16:10-12        Seek the LORD and his strength
Psalm 9:9-10               Thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee
Psalm 34:10                The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing
Psalm 34:22                None of them that trust [Heb. Chasa: seek refuge, flee for protection, put trust in, confide or hope in] in him shall be desolate [guilty, offended]
Psalm 63                     Early [diligently] will I seek thee (vs. 1).
Marrow & fatness (vs. 5): the richest of foods (NIV), a rich feast (NRSV)
A portion for foxes (vs. 10): food for jackals
Prov. 8:12-21              Those that seek me (wisdom) early [diligently] shall find me (vs. 17)
Jer. 29:10-14               Ye shall seek me and find me (vs. 13)
Mat. 7:7-8                    Seek, and ye shall find (vs. 7)
Col. 3:1-3                     Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth (vs. 1)
Heb. 13:14                  Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come
Teaching
884 New Focus – Keep Seeking