The Healing of the Land (Part 5)
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Seeking God’s Face
Seeking God’s Face
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
God wants to heal the land
God wants to heal the land
For the land to be healed
++God needs a people
++We must understand the Call
++We must Humble ourselves
++We must be a people of prayer
++We must seek God’s face
What is meant by “God’s Face”?
What is meant by “God’s Face”?
The Face of God
++Is more than stuff
++Is more than answers
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
The Face of God
++Is more than stuff
++Is more than answers
++Is his person
++Is marked by his know presence
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.
The use of this term is not unusual in Scripture.
8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.
Seeking God’s Face
++Is commanded
++Is a chosen response
4 Seek the Lord, and his strength: Seek his face evermore.
Seeking God’s Face
++Is commanded
++Is a chosen response
++Is separate from his strength
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, Nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, That seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
Seeking the face of God is linked to a people
++Who will ascend
++Who will stand
++of character
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, Nor sworn deceitfully.
Seeking the face of God is linked to a people
++Who will ascend
++Who will stand
++of character
Many Generations
Many Generations
Jesus saw
++A Wicked Generation (Matthew 16:4)
++An Adulterous Generation (Matthew 16:4)
++A generation of Vipers (Matthew 23:33)
The Apostles spoke to
++An untoward Generation (Acts 2:40)
++A generation that would not declare him (Acts 8:33)
Let us be this Generation
Let us be this Generation
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, That seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
This Generation
++Blessed of the Lord
2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: The generation of the upright shall be blessed.
This Generation
++Blessed of the Lord
++Walks in God’s Righteousness
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
For the land to be healed
God needs a people
We must understand the Call
We must Humble ourselves
We must be a people of prayer
++We must seek God’s face
How do we seek God?
How do we seek God?
God’s Face is
++His Person
++His Presence
Now is the time to seek the Lord.
16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: Let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.
Real Seekers have
++A reason to rejoice
++A reason to be glad
++Loves what comes from God
He is the God of our salvation
The rock of our salvation
the Anchor of the soul
Open up your Eyes and Seek the Lord
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.