The Journey Begins

• Enjoy God through the study of His word

• Start a journey of “seeking the Lord”

• Grow in wisdom and insight

• Respond to God as He awakens my heart

• Have resources for further study

• Look for Him

• Pray

• Long for Him

• Do what God wants me to do

• Attend church and prayer meetings

• Talk to others concerning my quest

“But from there you will seek the LORD your God”

Is this passage from…?

A loving heart

A people longing to be with God

A prophetic warning about falling away

A testimony about the temple

• Deu 4:29 "But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Himif you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. "The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD drives you. "There you will serve gods, the work of man's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. "But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. "When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

Deu 4:26-30 NASB

• Is both spiritual and practical

• It is not intellectual, but involves your intellect

• You emotions, what you love, plays a vital role

• There is not a “special place” to seek from

• There are “special places” to seek from

• Seeking is personal, involving the person of God

and you.

"In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, And wall up its breaches; I will also raise up its ruins And rebuild it as in the days of old; That they may possess the remnant of Edom And all the nations who are called by My name," Declares the LORD who does this.

Amos 9:11-12 NASB

2Sa_7:11-16; 1Ki_12:16; Psa_89:35-49; Isa_9:6-7; Jer_33:24-26; Eze_17:22-24; Zec_13:8

'AFTER THESE THINGS I will return, AND I WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL RESTORE IT, SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,' SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.

Act 15:16-18 NASB

• No one can choose to seek the Lord

• Seeking is a response to God’s call and work

• You can not seek the Lord the way you desire

• God is sought along the path He has for you

• God’s call to us, awakens us

• We respond to His call, we give effort

• We can reject God at any time by not following

His call to seek Him, follow Him

seek• to search for (someone or something)

• to try to find (someone or something)

• to ask for (help, advice, etc.)

• to try to get or achieve (something)

• Early at a task,

earnestness, search

• To tread or frequent,

follow

• To search out (in

worship or prayer)

• to search for (someone or something)

• to try to find (someone or something)

• to ask for (help, advice, etc.)

• to try to get or achieve (something)

Old Testament English Word

• To question, inquiry

• To request a favor

• To demand something due

• To search for something hidden

• To learn, ask, understand

• To worship, plot, desire

• Understanding the word used helps

us understand the Lord better.• We know what He is asking of us

• We often discover a method or discipline

• Clarity and wisdom can be gained

• Personal insight and instruction

H1245 בקש baqash baw-kash'

A primitive root; to search out (by any method; specifically

in worship or prayer); by implication to strive after: - ask,

beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition,

procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).

To search out in worship and in prayer

• A form is implied, worship and prayer

• Finding is conditional, “with all your heart and soul”

• Seeking here is a spiritual exercise, not intellectual

• The “location” is a fallen person in a fallen culture

• You are not seeking a resolution, but the person of God

Combo Pack – Two different words for “seek”

First word – daw-rash’

Second word - baw-kash'

H1875 דרש darash daw-rash'

A primitive root; properly to tread or frequent; usually to

follow (for pursuit or search); by implication to seek or ask;

specifically to worship: - ask, X at all, care for, X diligently,

inquire, make inquisition,

• Come often to the Lord and His strength

• Not seeking God alone, but His gifts too

• Seek, come via following Him (His ways)

• Tread, walk in a manner of inquiry of the Lord

And

• Through prayer and worship seek His face

(intimacy)

God calls us to be seekers and He has a plan

• It is personal

• It is universal

• It is for our time

• It is for the end of time

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H7836 שחר shachar shaw-khar'

A primitive root; properly to dawn, that is, (figuratively) be

(up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness);

by extension to search for (with painstaking): - [do

something] betimes, enquire early, rise (seek) betimes,

seek (diligently) early, in the morning).

G2212 ζητεω zeteo dzay-teh'-o

Of uncertain affinity; to seek (literally or figuratively);

specifically (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad

sense) to plot (against life): - be (go) about, desire,

endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for,

means). Compare G4441.

G4441 πυνθανομαι punthanomai

Middle voice prolonged from πυθω putho , a primary word, (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); to question, that is, ascertain by inquiry (as a matter of informationmerely; and thus differing from

• G2065, ερωταω which properly means a request as a favor;

• G154, αιτεω which is strictly a demand of something due

• G2212, ζητεω which implies a search for something hidden

• G1189, δεομαι which involves the idea of urgent need); by implication to learn (by casual intelligence): - ask, demand, enquire, understand.