דָּרַשׁ - to seek

Speaker: Rev. Patrick Kelley

Originally Recorded: 4 Sep 2016

Jeremiah 29:10-14

For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

What does it mean to seek God with all your heart?

It means: that we’re to be wholehearted, life-consuming, exclusively committed to God.

It means: we put away our expectations:

It means: we can’t talk about it, read about it, learn about it, study it, but never actually do it.

The promise is released over us WHEN we search for Him with our whole heart.

Big Idea: God is giving us a promise! It’s not a maybe, or a hope so….it is the Word of the Lord that if we seek Him with all of our heart, WE WILL FIND HIM.

What it will take: PEP

Passion

Effort

Perseverance

Galatians 6:9

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.