The first sermon in a series on "Seeking the Lord." The goals of this lesson are to open our hearts, investigate Biblical words and find practical methods of seeking the Lord

1. The Journey Begins

2. • Enjoy God through the study of His word
• Start a journey of “seeking the Lord”
• Grow in wisdom and insight
• Respond to God as He awakens my heart
• Have resources for further study

3. • Look for Him
• Pray
• Long for Him
• Do what God wants me to do
• Attend church and prayer meetings
• Talk to others concerning my quest

4. “But from there you will seek the LORD
your God”
Is this passage from…?
 A loving heart
 A people longing to be with God
 A prophetic warning about falling away
 A testimony about the temple

5. • Deu 4:29 "But from there you will seek
the LORD your God, and you will find Him
if you search for Him with all your heart
and all your soul.

6. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that
you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are
going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long
on it, but will be utterly destroyed. "The LORD will scatter
you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number
among the nations where the LORD drives you. "There you
will serve gods, the work of man's hands, wood and stone,
which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. "But from
there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find
Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your
soul. "When you are in distress and all these things have
come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the
LORD your God and listen to His voice.
Deu 4:26-30 NASB

7. • Is both spiritual and practical
• It is not intellectual, but involves your intellect
• You emotions, what you love, plays a vital role
• There is not a “special place” to seek from
• There are “special places” to seek from
• Seeking is personal, involving the person of God
and you.

8. "In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of
David, And wall up its breaches; I will also raise up
its ruins And rebuild it as in the days of old; That
they may possess the remnant of Edom And all the
nations who are called by My name," Declares the
LORD who does this.
Amos 9:11-12 NASB
2Sa_7:11-16; 1Ki_12:16; Psa_89:35-49; Isa_9:6-7; Jer_33:24-26; Eze_17:22-24; Zec_13:8

9. 'AFTER THESE THINGS I will return, AND I
WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID
WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD
ITS RUINS, AND I WILL RESTORE IT, SO THAT
THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD,
AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY
MY NAME,' SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES
THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.
Act 15:16-18 NASB

10. • No one can choose to seek the Lord
• Seeking is a response to God’s call and work
• You can not seek the Lord the way you desire
• God is sought along the path He has for you
• God’s call to us, awakens us
• We respond to His call, we give effort
• We can reject God at any time by not following
His call to seek Him, follow Him

11. seek
• to search for (someone or something)
• to try to find (someone or something)
• to ask for (help, advice, etc.)
• to try to get or achieve (something)

12. Old Testament English Word
• Early at a task,
earnestness, search
• To tread or frequent,
follow
• To search out (in
worship or prayer)
• to search for
(someone or
something)
• to try to find
(someone or
something)
• to ask for (help,
advice, etc.)
• to try to get or
achieve (something)

13. • To question, inquiry
• To request a favor
• To demand something due
• To search for something hidden
• To learn, ask, understand
• To worship, plot, desire

14. • Understanding the word used helps
us understand the Lord better.
• We know what He is asking of us
• We often discover a method or discipline
• Clarity and wisdom can be gained
• Personal insight and instruction

15. H1245 בּקשׁ baq̂ash baw-kash'
A primitive root; to search out (by any method; specifically
in worship or prayer); by implication to strive after: - ask,
beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition,
procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).

16. To search out in worship and in prayer
• A form is implied, worship and prayer
• Finding is conditional, “with all your heart and soul”
• Seeking here is a spiritual exercise, not intellectual
• The “location” is a fallen person in a fallen culture
• You are not seeking a resolution, but the person of God

17. Combo Pack – Two different words for “seek”
First word – daw-rash’
Second word - baw-kash'
H1875 דּרשׁ dar̂ash daw-rash'
A primitive root; properly to tread or frequent; usually to
follow (for pursuit or search); by implication to seek or ask;
specifically to worship: - ask, X at all, care for, X diligently,
inquire, make inquisition,

18. • Come often to the Lord and His strength
• Not seeking God alone, but His gifts too
• Seek, come via following Him (His ways)
• Tread, walk in a manner of inquiry of the Lord
And
• Through prayer and worship seek His face
(intimacy)

19. God calls us to be seekers and He has a plan
• It is personal
• It is universal
• It is for our time
• It is for the end of time
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20. H7836 שׁחר shaĉhar shaw-khar'
A primitive root; properly to dawn, that is, (figuratively) be
(up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness);
by extension to search for (with painstaking): - [do
something] betimes, enquire early, rise (seek) betimes,
seek (diligently) early, in the morning).

21. G2212 ζητέω zēteō dzay-teh'-o
Of uncertain affinity; to seek (literally or figuratively);
specifically (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad
sense) to plot (against life): - be (go) about, desire,
endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for,
means). Compare G4441.

22. G4441 πυνθάνομαι punthanomai
Middle voice prolonged from πύθω puthō, a primary word,
(which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); to question,
that is, ascertain by inquiry (as a matter of information merely;
and thus differing from
• G2065, ἐρωτάω which properly means a request as a favor;
• G154, αἰτέω which is strictly a demand of something due
• G2212, ζητέω which implies a search for something hidden
• G1189, δέομαι which involves the idea of urgent need); by
implication to learn (by casual intelligence): - ask, demand,
enquire, understand.