Seek God Together

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Matthew 5:4 which says, “Those who mourn are blessed, for they will be comforted.” This comes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount - and specifically the portion known as the Beatitudes . The word beatitude comes from latin meaning supreme blessedness. Who doesn’t want to be supremely blessed? Here Jesus tells us exac...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Isaiah 29:19 which says, “The humble will have joy after joy in the Lord, and the poor people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.” You need God. That’s why you’re here of course. You know that intuitively. But what to do in the meantime, in the difficulty and confusion of day-to-day of living? Certainly the p...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read 1 Samuel 15:22. This verse says, “Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? Look: to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.” With these words Saul is rejected as king of Israel and David - the man after God’s own heart -...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Ecclesiastes 3:11 which says “He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but man cannot discover the work God has done from the beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes says the quiet part out loud. Days tick away. Days turn into years. Have you looked back at facebook photos...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Psalm 43:5 which says, “Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God.” If there’s something in us that thinks we need to clean ourselves up a bit before approaching God then perhaps there’s an equal temptation to shape up our attitude,...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read John 1:1-4 which says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were created through Him, and apart from Him not one thing was created that has been in created. Life was in Him and that life was the light of men.” What is the Wor...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Daniel 10:12-13. Daniel had been praying and seeking God for some time. And only after 3 weeks did he get a response. And what a response it was. He sees a brilliant humanoid spirit-being who says “Don’t be afraid, Daniel,” he said to me, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yours...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read John 15:15 where Jesus says, “I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.” How do you see God? More importantly, how does God see you? Usually when we pray we use wo...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Matthew 6:6 which says, “But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” Leave it to Jesus to say a thing perfectly. He never fails to. Here we have from Jesus, the most succinct way to seek God. And hones...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we’ll read Proverbs 1:7. This verse says “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.” We don’t like the beginning of this verse do we? Fear? The fear of the Lord? Why not the love of the Lord or the worship of the Lord? Fear? I fear a scary person. I fear a tragedy. I don’t want t...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read a portion of Daniel 2 verse 28 which says, “There is a God in heaven Who reveals mysteries.” The king of Babylon had a dream. And it so disturbed him that he asked the impossible of his wise men. “Tell me the dream I had and the interpretation or I will have you executed.” Of course none of the wise men could and...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read John 21:25 - the last verse in John. It says, “And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were written one by one, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.” What could possibly be said of Jesus? Mark records a verse with a similar spirit, the peop...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read from first Samuel. The prophet Samuel is just a boy in the house of the Lord with the priest Eli. Twice now Samuel has been awakened by the Lord. The prompting was apparently familiar enough that the boy mistook the Lord for Eli. 1 Samuel 3:7-9 says “Now Samuel had not yet experienced the Lord, because the word o...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Acts 2:4 which says, “Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages as the Spirit gave them ability for speech.” This is strange. But it’s scripture. We must receive it. The Spirit comes and fills believers. They are now partners with and animated by God. They speak in l...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Psalm 46:1 & 10. “God is our refuge and strength. An ever-present help in time of trouble. “Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted in the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.” Today we will meditate. We will think deeply and with less words. This passage opens by focusing our thinking - God. G...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Psalm 24 verse 1 - “The earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the Lord.” There are days when the sun shines a little brighter. Life is a bit more wondrous and free. And then there are the other days (perhaps most of the other days) - when the pressure of everything weighs on our sho...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read portions of Job 1:1-5 which says “There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of perfect integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil. He had seven sons and three daughters. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east. His sons used to take turns having banquets at their home...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Genesis 22:2. Here God is speaking with Abraham and He makes an unimaginable request… “Take your son, He said, your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.” We don’t like this verse (and many of the stories in...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Proverbs 3:19-22. It says, “The Lord founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding. By His knowledge the watery depths broke open, and the clouds dripped with dew. Maintain your competence and discretion. My son, don’t lose sight of them. They will be life for you and adornment for your...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Romans 11:32 which says, “For God has imprisoned all in disobedience, so that He may have mercy on all.” What will happen in the end - when everyone is dead - everyone’s judged? What will hell be like and who will be there? These are not pleasant questions. But are there any that are more important? Really? If we...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Isaiah 44:22 which says “I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you” and let’s parenthetically add the last part of Revelation 13:8 which says “…Christ slain from the foundation of the world”. Have you ever avoided God? I have. What would c...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read John 11:50-52. In this passage Caiaphas (the high priest) is instructing his concerned underlings about the disturbance Jesus is causing and what should be done. Caiaphas says, “You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.” He did...

Thank you for listening. Please share & check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read John 11:25-26. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die - ever. Do you believe this?” How do we even begin to probe the depths of Jesus’ words here or anywhere? We must do...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Luke17:20-21 which says, “Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come, He answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable: no one will say, ‘Look here!’ of ‘There!’ For you see, the kingdom of God is within you.” The Pharisees were a sect of religious Jews known for t...

Thank you for listening. Check out more at www.seekGodtogether.com Today we will read Matthew 23:37 - “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing.” What is God like? God is like Jesus. And here we see that Jesus is sad and therefore...