Seeking the Lord

We often hear 2 Chronicles 7: 14 quoted in the bible in seeking God for revival:

                                    “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, 

and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, 
then I will hear from heaven 
and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

 But what does it mean to seek God?

Thinking of what it means to seek God, I came to realize that I don't know why I would seek for him. Trying to find the answer myself will be the first step in seeking Him.

Majority of us seek God when we are in desperate for God to grant us something. Unfortunately, that is not how it works. It's just like us asking our parents to go out and hoping they will say yes, but their answer is no.

Bottom line: If you're feeling the nerves to seek God, it is because he was the first one to seek you. Let that phrase sink into you. Don't miss it, because when it's gone, it's hard for it to come back.

The Lord is searching all over the world to try and see if He can find someone whose heart is His. Do you surrender daily to seek for Him? Is every ounce of your day dedicated to Him? Are you running after the Lord, to know that you have Him? Do you have sleepless nights searching for the Lord?

If your answer to these questions was "no", then let me encourage you to pursue the Lord relentlessly, as if we were hunting for Him! Seek the Lord with all your heart, take advantage of the early and late hours of the day, when everyone is crying out of desperate for the Lord to help them. I want to encourage you to be driven to reach out in a way you were rushing in line to meet your favorite celebrity. This by all means, is not a passive act. In fact, it is something you give your whole body, mind, and soul into.

If you are willing to do this, the wonderful promise to you is that the Lord will strongly support you in whatever it is that you are doing. D.L. Moody had once said, "The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him. I will try my utmost to be that man." I agree with Moody, we get so distracted in our daily lives that we never see the good God has given us or even through us.

Do you want to know Him?

If you want to Jesus personally, you can. It all starts off when you repent on your knees and believe in Jesus.  God's words in the bible said, " Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel, and saying, ' The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the Gospel." (Mar 1:14b-15). In this section, he preached to us that we must repent and believe in order to receive His grace.