A Call to Seek the Lord
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A Call to Seek God
08-23-2020
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Recap
Over the last few weeks we have spent sometime in 2 Chronicles 7:13-14
We have zoomed in on 7:14, and the parts that say humble, pray, seek, and repent
2 wks ago we looked at being humble
Then last week we looked at prayer
If you will recall this is not a what? Remember we say it each and every message during this series
This is not a checklist
This is a call to return to make the main thing the main thing
13 “If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, 14 and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
In 14 it is a picture of what it is to have a personal relationship with Jesus
Those of you who walk with Jesus this is what your relationship looks like
To be humble means to have a lower estimation of yourself then you really do
It is to be in the right position in relation to God
So that we can be used and so that we can enter into the throne room of God
Prayer is jus that
Prayer is communication with God
17 pray without ceasing;
We are to be in constant communication
That means sharing and listening to God
What an awesome opportunity we have a children of God to go and speak with and listen to God
This morning is a call to seek the Lord
When you hear seek the Lord
Maybe that is some church language that we just kind of agree with
Remember this is not a checklist that you do once and you are done it is a change in our life style
To seek the Lord means to go after the Lord
We see through the Proverbs that those who do not listen or do not follow the Lord are fools
To seek the Lords means to go after the Lord
We need to follow the Lords Leading
To follow where He is going we need to spend time with Him, to spend time with Him we need to be Humble and be praying
To seek the Lord means doing what ever is necessary to reach the Lord
40 And as Jesus returned, the people welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him. 41 And there came a man named Jairus, and he was an official of the synagogue; and he fell at Jesus’ feet, and began to implore Him to come to his house; 42 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him. 43 And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone,
Stop reading don’t read ahead
We have all read this story
This is the story of the lady who had a hemorrhage for 12 years
Had the story stopped here this lady would have continued to be sick
This lady could have seen the crowd and stopped and said I will never get to the healer
She had tried other people and came to Jesus knowing Jesus could heal her
But like many of us we see things in our lives crowds in our lives and go this is to tough and to difficult
I wont be able to get to Jesus
43 And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone, 44 came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her hemorrhage stopped. 45 And Jesus said, “Who is the one who touched Me?” And while they were all denying it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing in on You.” 46 But Jesus said, “Someone did touch Me, for I was aware that power had gone out of Me.” 47 When the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before Him, and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed. 48 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
This lady understood that she needed Jesus and was willing to do whatever to get there
She knew the only way to be healed was by Jesus and she nudged her way to the crowd to get to Him
She did not allowed the people of this world to get in her way of Getting to Jesus
Church she did want ever she had to do to get to Jesus
She did not allow the social norms of this world to get in her way of getting to Jesus
So let me ask you this church
What are you allowing of getting in the way of you getting to Jesus
What hard choice do you need to make this morning to get to Jesus
Are you willing to do whatever you need to do to get to Jesus
What are the things standing in your way that is currently stopping you from getting to Jesus
This again church is not a check list but a life style change to make the main thing the main thing
To Seek the Lord is about making it a life style to doing whatever it takes to get to Jesus and when you get to Jesus it is enjoying His presence
11 Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face continually.
To enjoy the presence of the Lord
Just like praying constantly we are to constantly be doing whatever we can to get into the presence of the Lord
Now some of you will hear this and ok I will do somethings to get to Jesus
But when the crowds press in you will honestly say this is tough and I will just wait till things quite down to get to Jesus
Others of you will hear this and realize this is a call to action and when you hear whatever it takes
You understand this is absolutely whatever it takes and will not allow those crowds pressing in to stand between you and the presence of the Lord
Church I must again ask what choices do you need to make to seek the Lord to get to Jesus
These are the hard choices, maybe its removing friends in your life that do nothing but bring you down, or maybe it is not taking a higher paying job or leaving a particular job even though according to the world it will bring you what the world calls stability
13 ‘You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
With all of your heart
That is whatever it takes to get to Jesus
To get through the crowd pressing in to get to Jesus
Are you willing to Seek the Lord with all your heart
Church that means whatever it takes
Those are dangerous prayers but how great it is when you get to Jesus
Just like the lady in the story earlier
How difficult it was to get through the crowd and how awkward it was to stand before Jesus
But church the rest of the story is that she was healed, she was made well
How great it is when we get through the difficulties and make it to the presence of Jesus
Church let me clear to get through the crowded people to get to Jesus will be difficult
To make those hard choices to get to Jesus will be difficult
So we need to be prepared to make those hard decisions and to carry through with them
That means being Humble and spending time in prayer and putting on our armor of God and going to war
Church this is not a check list that you can just listen to and check off
This is a call to action this morning
It is time to step and do whatever it takes to get to Jesus
So as we move into this time of invitation
Let me ask you do you have a personal relationship with Jesus and if you do not do you want one
If you want one we would like you to walk to the front and meet with someone who can show you that Jesus died for your sins and that you can begin a personal relationship with Jesus this morning when you repent of your sin and believe that Jesus is Christ
Or maybe you have a personal relationship with Jesus and you simply need to spend sometime in prayer this morning about doing whatever it takes to get to Jesus
The altar is open