Seeking God
Seeking God
Commanded - Isa 55:6; Mt 7:7
INCLUDES SEEKING
By prayer - Job 8:5; Da 9:3
In his house - De 12:5; Ps 27:4
SHOULD BE
- Immediate
- Ho 10:12 - Evermore
- Ps 105:4 - While he may be found
- Isa 55:6 - With diligence
- Heb 11:6 - With the heart
- De 4:29; 1Ch 22:19 - In the day of trouble
- Ps 77:2
Ensures
Imperative upon all - Isa 8:19
Afflictions designed to lead to - Ps 78:33,34; Ho 5:15
None, by nature, are found to be engaged in - Ps 14:2; Ro 3:11; Lu 12:23,30
SAINTS
- Specially exhorted to
- Zep 2:3 - Desirous of
- Job 5:8 - Purpose, in heart
- Ps 27:8 - Prepare their hearts for
- 2Ch 30:19 - Set their hearts to
- 2Ch 11:16 - Engage in, with the whole heart
- 2Ch 15:12; Ps 119:10 - Early in
- Job 8:5; Ps 63:1; Isa 26:9 - Earnest in
- So 3:2,4 - Characterised by
- Ps 24:6
Is never in vain - Isa 45:19
Blessedness of - Ps 119:2
Leads to joy - Ps 70:4; 105:3
Ends in praise - Ps 22:26
Promise connected with - Ps 69:32
Shall be rewarded - Heb 11:6
THE WICKED
- Are gone out of the way of
- Ps 14:2,3; Ro 3:11,12 - Prepare not their hearts for
- 2Ch 12:14 - Refuse, through pride
- Ps 10:4 - Not led to, by affliction
- Isa 9:13 - Sometimes pretend to
- Ezr 4:2; Isa 58:2 - Rejected, when too late in
- Pr 1:28
They who neglect denounced - Isa 31:1
Punishment of those who neglect - Zep 1:4-6
Exemplified