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Seeking Him

I am not sure how other people’s minds work or how God talks to others; I only know the relationship that I have. It is not uncommon for God to stop me in the middle of a chore to show me how to teach a lesson. Today I went shopping at Sam’s. Like a great many stores, Sam’s decided they needed to rearrange every single item in the store. You should have seen the bewildered faces on people. It was like a bizarre game of hide-and-go-seek. The only reason I did not give up is that I really, really needed the items. If you saw something you needed in someone else’s cart, you would ask where they found it. Honest to goodness, I have to idea why stores do this to their customers. The curious thing is you did not see one person give up or stomp out. We all scurried back and forth up and down isles to find the needed items.
Once I went with a group of ladies to Myrtle Beach. The fishes at the boardwalk were so spoiled they did not even swim away while being fed. They just clustered together with their mouths open, waiting for you to put the food in their mouths. It was the craziest thing. I wondered if that is how God sees us when we are looking to be spiritually fed. God asks us to seek Him, which means to pursue. So, today, I will put a list of actions the Bible tells us to seek after. If you are like me and were willing to spend an extra thirty minutes hunting down items in a store, then you can spend a few additional minutes searching God’s word as a treasure. Happy hunting. I would love to know how God is going to show you how to use this information in the up and coming weeks.
Seeking=pursue or search for (action)
• Seek the Lord, and you will find Him Deut. 4:29
• Seek God’s face and repent 2 Chronicles 7:14
• Seek peace and pursue it Psalm 34:14
• Seek God (love those that love me) Proverbs 8:17
• Seek wisdom (investigate) Eccl. 7:25
• Seek the lost Luke 19:10; Mark 16:15-16
• Seek the Lord (until He comes) Hosea 10:12
• Seek Good, not evil Amos 5:14-15
• Seek God’s Kingdom first Matthew 6:33
• A.S.K. Matthew 7:7
• Seek, and you will find Luke 11:10

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