“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
Prayer is essential:
Ask through bended-knee prayer.
Seek with desire for God’s face to shine upon your request.
Knock with assurance & confidence for the door to open.
I strive to seek God first as it says in Psalm 63:1, “O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You. My flesh longs for You in a dry and weary land where there is no water.”
Seeking God’s Face…An Intimate Fellowship
Seeking God’s face does not happen over a weekend;
It takes a commitment, day by day,
To make Him your special friend.
The pursuit can be shallow-rooted
Or absorbed skin-deep where it cannot be looted.
His face can be found in any place you roam
Or just by resting with Him at home.
Paul sought God’s face from a prison cell.
He prayed; He witnessed-
From where he dwelled.
Jonah rebelled and delayed.
From an unhappy place,
He sought God’s face from the belly of a whale
Oh, what a story He had to tell!
Seeking God’s face cannot be hurried through;
It cannot be just a casual approach.
There is a cost to being made new.
It’s a lifetime ritual-
Not done in a moment or an hour to seek the spiritual.
O Lord, for You, my soul must thirst,
And I must seek Your face first;
In my time-in my prime-
Day by day- in every way;
Week by week I seek, year by year, to keep God near.
Mary Crisp Jameson 11/7/2024
“When You said, “Seek My face”, my heart said to You, “Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.” Psalm 27:8 NKJV
I have read Matthew 7:7 many, many times. “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.”
What struck me this morning was not the receiving, the finding, or the open door. It was the “Keep on”. The persistence! The determination! The not sitting around! It’s the doing something during the wait!
