"Seek" with Jentezen Franklin

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own family with this new 3 CD teaching called fight for your family with your generous support of three hundred and fifty dollars or more you'll be a champion of this cause showing you understand how dire this situation is the starving children in Haiti thank you for your continue generous support of Kingdom connection together we are making a difference Psalms chapter 63 oh god you are my god early will I seek you my soul thirsts for you my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water so I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory o God you're my god and early will I seek you do those words describe your relationship with God are you thirsty for him listen to the words does your soul and flesh loan for him most importantly are you seeking him this is what God laid on my heart this word seek and that's what I want to talk about is the need to seek the need to be aggressive and the pursuer of God are you seeking Him does your do you long for him are you after him are you seeking him listen if I'm going to live for God if I'm going to be strong if I'm gonna have a vital relationship with Jesus Christ I must seek God daily and fervently a must I must seek God daily and fervently when we are weak with God temptation is strong when we're strong with God temptation is weak the stronger I am with God the more I'm seeking God the weaker temptation is the weaker I am the less that I seek God the stronger temptation becomes in my life I must earnestly daily fervently seek God often we see someone in a in an awesome relationship with the Lord and we say oh wow they must have been born that way and I that's what I've always wanted or or you know they they found something like what we act like they found something like like like you know they they're different there is something about no they're not they're just earnestly seeking God they're seeking God they're seeking Him daily they're seeking Him fervently that's the difference between people who have the touch of God in the favor of God and the presence of God in the words in their spirit in their prayers in their disposition the way they live there's a difference in those people because they seek God you don't stumble upon a great relationship with God listen to me young people you don't you're not born with it you have to seek it you have to seek it through the Scriptures the reading daily of the scriptures you have to seek it phoo phoo giving God in I don't even like using that word have to I I really want you to understand that there's a place in God where it is who you are to seek God it's not a half-two it's that's what I want to do I don't want a Sunday morning thing with God I want to seek Him and there are two reasons that someone has a relationship that's powerful with God I believe everybody here who who has come that's a believer sincerely desires if you were asked could you have a powerful relationship with God you would say absolutely yes but I don't know if you understand what what you have to you have to seek Him it requires something of you and there are two things that people with a powerful relationship of God will always have that I've noticed through the years number one they will have people pouring into their life if they have a powerful relationship with God you can count on it they have people in their life who pour into them on the spiritual side they pour into them and shape their being shaped by people or they are going through pain and there's something about problems in pain that can help you develop a powerful powerful relationship with God the word today is seek seek so so his problems are pain that drives you into that place to seeking God and there's nothing like problems in pain to make us turn to the word make us turn to prayer make us turn to God with all of our heart to get spiritually minded and seek Him and go after him and ask and pray or it's people pouring into our life or listening to iPods are listening to speakers all week long and listening to TV shows or whatever it is that feeds your spirit these are the things that that that can help us seek God but in Psalms chapter 9 and verse 10 and those of you who know your name will put your trust in you for you Lord have not forsaken those who seek you some of you today feel like you're forsaken some of you feel like gods nowhere in your situation you got problems going on notice he says I won't forsake the person who seeks me if you'll seek me and read my scripture if you'll seek me and get along with me and pray about your problems I will not forsake you Psalms 10 let's go right turn right to psalms 10 and verse 4 the wicked and his proud countenance does not seek god now notice something about wickedness god's definition of wickedness is wickedness does not seek god wickedness does not take the time to read that book and to get along with God and to cultivate their spirit and to create an atmosphere in their life of god-consciousness wickedness does not seek God righteous people seek God the wicked and his proud countenance does not listen while proud proud proud countenance I don't need to seek God I'm okay I'm saying I'm going to heaven I don't have to seek God if the last thing that comes up in your mind when somebody's sick in your house is God you're not seeking God the first thing that ought to come up is this pray the first thing that ought to come up with problems and challenges with your children is not who we're gonna run to who can we call who can which prey let's see God let's see God let's seek God about this let's say we seek God about our problems and our issues look at look at Psalms 27 and verse 8 concerning sinking when you said seek my face this is this is something David praying it to God when you said seek my face my heart said to you your face Lord I will seek do not hide your face from me do not turn your servant away in anger you have been my help do not leave me nor forsake me he goes on to say if my father and my mother forsake me the Lord will take care of me if I was seek him if I was seek him listen to what he said when you said seek my face my heart said your face Lord I will see see what he's saying there is God will absolutely whisper to you in your walk with Jesus seek my face I miss you you're not who you started out to be you're not seeking me seek my face don't don't eat that meal today fast seek my face and he said my heart says back to you your face will I seek hey come read the Bible hey you hear this voice hey read the Bible hey hey read the Bible that's the Holy Spirit and he's saying see my face see my face don't ignore me again and again and again and again and again seek my face and my heart says your face Lord will I seek Psalms 34 and verse 10 turn right to Psalms 34 and verse 10 I laid it out so that you can just keep turning right it's real easy Psalms 34 and verse 10 I love this verse the Young Lions lack and suffer hunger but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing if you will be a person who seeks God who's the aggressor in your relationship with God you're seeking Him I congratulate you for being in God's house those of you who sit in here and in any of our campuses I congratulate you you didn't have to come you didn't have to get up but you're seeking God and he says his promise to you is for those who seek the Lord they will lack no good thing oh if we just seek the Lord he's got everything we want he's got everything we need you know when I began to seek the Lord as a young teenager I didn't know all these verses I didn't know that he'll withhold no good thing I lack nothing I like no good thing if I seek the Lord you know that a spouse or a mate for life is a good thing do you know a husband a wife is a good thing do you know children that are blessed are a good thing well how look that family's just blessed they just look up no they not they're seeking God and if you seek God he will you will lack for no good thing a house a car a job increase blessing success prosperity healing help strength peace direction will of God it's all in seeking him he'll with whole nothing he said the Young Lions lacked but you won't lack anything there's nothing that I will withhold from the person who will daily and fervently keep on seeking me through the ups through the Downs through the Plenty through the won't through the good times through the bad times you just stay in that word and you stay in God and you go after God and you're seeking Him every day daily fervently Psalms 40 and verse 16 let all of those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you let such as love you say Salvation continually the Lord be magnified let all of those who seek you rejoice and be glad I'm telling you that if you seek the Lord he'll give you joy he'll give you gladness he'll cause you to have joy no matter what's going on in your life because our joy does not come from the world our happiness is not determined by happenings our joy source is Jesus Christ he is the center of our life and he says if you'll seek me there'll always be a portion of gladness and rejoicing that you have in your life Jeremiah 29 and 11 is a kind of one of those famous scriptures and we love to speak it over our young people but we only quote half the verse for I know the thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord thoughts of peace and not evil to give you a future and a hope then you will call upon me and pray to me and I'll listen to you and you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all of your heart that hope that future that plan that big deal that destiny and purpose that God has put you on this earth will only be found if you seek me and if you seek me you was in search for me with all of your heart you will find me but you've got to seek it you've got a secret huh I tell you when I got saved and filled with the Holy Spirit as a young teenager I began to come I began to seek God I'm concerned that that that young people don't just come to an altar and even adults and we get you just become religious people and we're not we don't have a heart that's desperately seeking for God because the key to finding the will of God finding the direction and path and plan that God has for your life there is no question he has it I know the plans I have for you to give you a future to give you hope but you'll only get it if you seek me quit wasting your life quit wasting your days quit getting up and ignoring this book if you seek me I'm going to direct your life acknowledge me in all of your ways I will direct your path seek me get that trash out of your car this filled with vulgarity and filth and get some worship and seasoning live in an atmosphere of seeking me praying to me talking to me seek me aw Tozer said for there will be no manifestation of God to his people apart from earnest seeking we see people with an awesome relationship with God you know we just say boy they just have an awesome no they don't they're earnestly seeking they're earnestly seeking there aren't earnestly going back to the word daily and fervently and seeking listening put it pouring the word in because this is what we are called to do out of that God begins to move then he puts a word it's funny you'll read a scripture if you read it for yourself gonna burn that word in your spirit and a few days later you'll come to church and somebody will preach on it and just coincidentally somebody will bring it up over here and it'll come and out of the mouth of two or three witnesses God will say I'll establish your destiny because you spent time to seek me in the word that's how God does it it really is and you're cheating yourself it's not become some kind of religious freak that no when you seek God there's something powerful that is released into your life I I want to go to a scripture that I'm gonna close with this one in one more but in second chronicles 26 he salt God in the days of Zechariah he had understanding in visions of God as long and here's what here's what God lit up in my soul and as long as he sought the Lord God made him to prosper on every business person in this room I want every person on every teenager I want every college student I want every young man every young woman I want every person to listen listen to that verse again and as long as he sought the Lord God made him to prosper well what did that look like verse seven said God helped him against the Philistine God helped him he had God help against his enemies verse eight said that his fame spread as far as the entrance of Egypt for he became exceedingly strong verse 15 said that he started inventing stuff he had devices that he invented by skilful men and they they their fame spread wide and far for he was marvelously helped till he became strong verse 16 but when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction notice that there is a there is a strength in weakness and there is a weakness in strength the strength of weakness is when I'm weak then he is strong and I'm seeking Him and as long as I seek Him he made me to prosper but the dangerous period for all of us is when God blesses us and we stop seeking Him because then when we look strong we're really weak because it's our effort and God is not in it and my my deal to you today is as long as he sought the Lord what uh what if you don't get nothing outside of this message you ought to take that verse and put it up in your business and put it somewhere on your desk and say as long as I seek the Lord God will make me to prosper but if I ever get so strong that I lose my my seeking I don't go to the Scriptures anymore I don't have time to do that anymore I don't have time for prayer I don't want to do much fasting he says seek my face but I know I'm distant I know I'm cold I know I'm just going along bumping along in my wall but I'm not gonna seek your face no I'm a busy man then then a problem will come and Genesis last last verse and then I'm gonna close with one little statement Genesis chapter 4 and verse 7 God said to Cain if you do well will you not be accepted if you do not do well sin lies at the door one translation says sin is crouched like a lion at the door and its desire is for you I want you to look at think of the faces of your loved ones think of the faces of yourself your wife your husband all of it and sin has a great desire crouched at the door outside your house ready ready to rip to shreds and pieces and then he says but you should rule over it so here's one I found this in an article this weekend I thought it was profound I really did and I wrote it down how to fall flat on your face and he warned about David he's talking on all summit he's talking about David this Arthur was talking about David in this little article and he said the most dangerous time in a person's life is in the prosperous time and he said when the Kings went out to battle David stayed home because he didn't need to do that seeking stuff anymore I'm good I'm blessed so watch this this writer said these words and I think they've got a little outline when you're in prosperous times prosperous times lead to passive wheels and passive wheels lead to overpowering emotions and overpowering emotions lead to impure thoughts and impure thoughts leads to private sin catch this part this was the most powerful thing to me and private sin leads to public consequences privates in always everytime eventually leads to public consequences and sins crouched at the door you may have a beautiful wonderful family but I promise you sin is crouching at the door I don't want this be some kind of negative no no no what I'm saying to you is it ought not to rule over you it doesn't have to go that way if you'll seek him he'll give you strength if you'll seek him he'll give you wisdom if you'll seek him he'll give you success if you seek him when the enemy comes in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against it if you'll seek him no weapon formed against you will prosper if you'll seek and God will help you and as long as we seek the Lord God will make us to prosper how long when's the last time you heard that voice seek my face and your heart say it not your head your heart said your face will I seek seek I must seek him daily i'ma seek him fervently and if I will I will rule over it whatever it is for you you can rule over it you can rule over now I want you to stand your feet all over this room and at every campus now feel the presence of a holy spirit here right now you don't have to do this but does anybody hear that voice saying seek me get out of your seat for a few moments break the norm and walk down an aisle in total humility and surrender and say God I'm coming to start a new fresh seeking of your word a searching for you a seeking as the as the water as a parched desert longs for water my flesh longs for you just come come come you can stand if God speaking to you would you say from your heart your face will I seek your face will I seek and I don't care what anybody thinks you say well we can't all get down there but there's something about physically moving and obeying God when his voice speaks to you it is it is it is important obedience is important to God and everybody pray this prayer say Lord Jesus I seek you and you said if I seek you that I would find you and today I have found you I see you on the cross you shed your blood for me it cleanses me it forgives me of all my sins I know sin is at the door but I have you therefore I have authority over it and I receive you as my savior teach me to seek you teach me to read that book he's he's got in his hand every day of my life I want to grow I want to be seeking you earnestly and daily because you have a future and you have a hope and a purpose for my life I receive it in Jesus mighty name by faith let's give the Lord the biggest praise we can Wow in that great 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Published: Wed Jul 13 2016