It is time we seek the Face of God. We are praying that churches all over the world will come together and seek Him with all their heart.

1. Whom have I in heaven but You?

2. And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.

3. My flesh and my heart may fail,

4. But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:26 NASB

5. ...O God, YOU are my God;

6. I shall seek YOU earnestly;

7. My soul thirsts for YOU,

8. My flesh yearns for YOU, ……….. Psalm 63:1 NASB

9. When You said,

10. "Seek My face,"

11. my heart said to You,

12. Your face, O LORD, I shall seek." Psalm 27:8 NASB

13. Seek the LORD and His strength;

14. seek His presence continually! I Chr 16:11 ESV

15. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself,

16. and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience, they are not the better for having heard the truth.

17. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God,

18. that they may enter into Him,

19. that they may delight in His Presence,

20. may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts. ~ A.W. Tozer

21. You just mumble a ‘sinner’s prayer’ or have some fellow lay his hands on you, and there you are, a card-carrying Christian.

22. “He who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Heb 11:6).

23. But the sad fact is that today, by and large, men and women do not seek God.

24. It is too much like hard work.

25. They are satisfied with a superficial knowledge of Him;

26. and because they know Him superficially,

27. they worship Him superficially

28. and they pray to Him superficially

29. and they teach about Him superficially,

30. and young people, who have a fine nose for fraud, see right through them and conclude, quite rightly,

31. that their religion is a sham,

32. and that is why the Church in the West is where it is today

33. a joke and an irrelevance to the world,

34. given over by God because they will not seek His face.” ~ Martin Marprelate

35. The benchmark of success in church services has become more about attendance than the movement of the Holy Spirit.

36. The “entertainment” model of church..... has filled our churches with self-focused consumers rather than self-sacrificing servants attuned to the Holy Spirit….

37. Without The Holy Spirit, people operate in their own strength and only accomplish human-size results.

38. The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human-size results.

39. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit.

40. But when believers live in the power of the Holy Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural.

41. The church cannot help but be different, and the world cannot help but notice…… ~ Francis Chan

42. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone…..

43. We have imitated the world,

44. sought popular favor,

45. manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord

46. and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

47. Right now we are in an age of religious complexity.

48. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us.

49. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention

50. but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.

51. The shallowness of our inner experience,

52. the hollowness of our worship,

53. and the servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods

54. all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly,

55. and the peace of God scarcely at all. ~ A.W. Tozer

56. …..“The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn’t normally want or choose to do.

57. The Spirit will lead you into the way of the cross,

58. as He led Jesus to the cross,

59. and that is definitely not a safe

60. or pretty

61. or comfortable place to be.

62. The Holy Spirit of God will mold you into the person you were made to be…” ~ Francis Chan

63. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people.

64. He waits to be wanted.

65. If we would find God amid all the religious externals

66. we must first determine to find Him,

67. and then proceed in the way of simplicity.

68. …God discovers Himself to “babes” and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent.

69. We must simplify our approach to Him.

70. We must strip down to essentials

71. We must put away all effort to impress,

72. and come with the guileless candor of childhood.

73. O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more.

74. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace.

75. I am ashamed of my lack of desire.

76. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee;

77. I long to be filled with longing;

78. I thirst to be made more thirsty still.

79. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. 79

80. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me.

81. Say to my soul, “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.”

82. Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus’ name, Amen ~ A.W. Tozer

83. They entered into the covenant

84. to seek the LORD God of their fathers

85. with all their heart and soul; II Chr 15:12 NASB