SEEKING GOD - Topical Study-Step 2 |
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Topic Verse |
The Verse Written out in phrases | Ref. Vs. |
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| Deuteronomy 4:29 | But, if from there (from captivity) - from our place of sin and bondage | 2 Chronicles 14:4 - Asa (king) commanded Judah to … seek the Lord & Obey his commandments | When should we seek God? |
| Deuteronomy 4:29 | You seek the Lord Your God (a recognition of our place in submission to God) | Who do we seek? | |
| Deuteronomy 4:29 | You will find Him (a promise) | Promise | |
| Deuteronomy 4:29 | IF you look for Him with all your heart and soul (our whole being must be taken up with God. He is not interested in casual seekers. ) | How do we seek God? | |
| Deuteronomy 4:29 | IF you look for Him with all your heart and soul (our whole being must be taken up with God. He is not interested in casual seekers. ) | Who can seek God? | |
| Psalm 105:4 | Look to (search for) the Lord and His strength | Who do we seek? | |
| Psalm 105:4 | Seek His face always (or keep on searching) | How long do we seek? | |
| Isaiah 55:6 | Seek the Lord while He may be found. (There is a limited time to do so). | Jeremiah 29.13 | Time of seeking |
| Isaiah 55:6 | Call on Him while He is near (again there seems a time constraint.) | Time of seeking | |
| Jeremiah 29: 13 | You will seek me and find me ( a promise) | Promise | |
| Jeremiah 29: 13 | When you seek me with all of your heart ( demands a wholehearted commitment) | How do we seek God? | |
| Hosea 10:12 | Sow for yourselves righteousness | Amos 5:4 | Preparation for Seeking |
| Hosea 10:12 | Reap the fruit of unfailing love and | Zephaniah 2:3 | Preparation for Seeking |
| Hosea 10:12 | Break up your fallow ground (unplowed) | Matthew 6:33 | Preparation for Seeking |
| Hosea 10:12 | For it is time to seek the Lord, | Time of seeking | |
| Hosea 10:12 | Until He comes and showers righteousness on you. | How long do we seek God? | |
| Amos 5:14 | Seek good not evil, that we may live | What do we seek? | |
| Amos 5:14 | Then the Lord your God will be with you just as you say He is. | Promise | |
| Zephaniah 2:3 | Seek the Lord all you humble of the land | Who can seek God? | |
| Zephaniah 2:3 | You who do what He commands (this qualifies who the humble is) | Who can seek God? | |
| Zephaniah 2:3 | Seek Righteousness | What do we seek? | |
| Zephaniah 2:3 | Seek humility | What do we seek? | |
| Zephaniah 2:3 | Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord's anger. | Promise??? | |
| Matthew 6:33 | But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, | Who/what do we seek? | |
| And all these things (all the things needed in life) will be given to you as well. | Promise | ||
| Luke 11:9-10 | So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; | Command to seek God | |
| Luke 11:9-10 | Seek and you will find; | Command to seek God | |
| Luke 11:9-10 | knock and the door will be opened to you. | Command to seek God | |
| Luke 11:9-10 | For everyone who asks receives; | Promise | |
| Luke 11:9-10 | he who seeks finds: | Promise | |
| Luke 11:9-10 | and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. | Promise | |
| Acts 17: 27 | God did this (gave life and breath to everything and satisfies every need there is) so that men would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him | God wants to be found! | |
| Acts 17: 27 | though he is not far from each one of us. | Is God Far Away? | |
| 2 Chronicles 11:16 | Those from every tribe of Israel who set their hearts (a choice we make with our wills) on seeking the Lord, the God of Israel | Examples of seeking God | |
| 2 Chronicles 14:7 | Let us build up these towns, King Asa said to Judah, and put walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the Lord our God; | Result of seeking God | |
| 2 Chronicles 14:7 | we sought Him and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered. | Result of seeking God | |
| 2 Chronicles 17:3-4 | The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because in his early years he walked in the ways his father David had followed. | Result of seeking God | |
| 2 Chronicles 17:3-4 | He did not consult the Baals but sought the God of his father | How not to seek God | |
| 2 Chronicles 17:3-4 | And followed his commands rather than the practices of Israel. | How do we seek God? | |
| 2 Chronicles 26:5 | He (Uzziah King of Judah) sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God | How do we seek God? | |
| 2 Chronicles 26:5 | As long as he sought the Lord, God gave Him success. | Result of Seeking God | |
| Ezra 8:21 | I (Ezra) proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions. | Reason to seek God? | |
| Ezra 8:22b | The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, | Result of seeking God | |
| Ezra 8:22b | But his great anger is against all who forsake him. | Result of NOT seeking God | |
| Ezra 8:23 | So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer. | Result of seeking God | |
| Psalm 24:3-4 | Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? | Who can seek God? | |
| Psalm 24:3-4 | He who has clean hands and a pure heart, and who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false | Who can seek God? | |
| Psalm 24:4-5 | He will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God His Savior. | Result of seeking God | |
| Psalm 24:4-5 | Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face O God of Jacob. | Result of seeking God | |
| Psalm 27:8 | My heart says of you, "Seek His Face!" Your face, Lord, I will seek | Who do we seek? | |
| Psalm 119:10 | I seek you with all my heart; | 2 Chronicles 15:15 | How do we seek God? |
| Psalm 119:10 | Do not let me stray from your commands | Obedience and Seeking God closely tied | |
| 2 Chronicles 15:12 | And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their Fathers, and to yearn for Him with all their heart's desire and with all their soul: (AMP) | How do we seek God? | |
| 2 Chronicles 15:15A | And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought Him with their whole desire, | How do we seek God? | |
| 2 Chronicles 15:15B | and he was found by them. | Results of seeking God | |
| Daniel 9:3 | So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with Him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. | Example of seeking for God | |
| John 12: 21 | They came to Phillip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. "Sir" , they said, "we would like to see Jesus." | Example of seeking for God | |
| Mark 1:37 | and when they found him everyone exclaimed: "Everyone is looking for you!" | Example of seeking Christ | |
| Luke 4:42 | At daybreak Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. | Example of seeking Christ | |
| Luke 19:3 | He (Zacchaeus) wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. | Example of seeking Christ | |
| Luke 19:4 | When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately, I must stay at your house today." | God seeks for us | |
| John 6:24 | Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. | Example of seeking Christ | |
| Job 23:3 | If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling! | Earning for God | |
| Hosea 6:3 | Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. | Earning for God | |
| Hosea 6:3 | As surely as the sun rises he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth. | Promise | |
| Matthew 18:12, 14 | If a man loses even 1 sheep from his flock of 100 he will go to look for it. In the same way your Father in Heaven is not willing that any of these little ones be lost. | Luke 15:4 -same vs. | God seeks for us |
| Luke 19:10 | For the son of man came to seek and to save what was lost. | God seeks for us | |
| John 1:43 | The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Phillip, he said to him, "Follow me". | God seeks for us | |
| John 5:14 | Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." | God seeks for us | |
| John 9:35 | Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man? " | God seeks for us | |
| Jeremiah 31:3 | The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with loving-kindness." | Why are we even able to seek God? | |
| John 3: 16 | For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. | Where do we find God? | |
| Romans 5:8 | But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. | Why are we even able to seek God? | |
| Ephesians 2:4-5 | But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-- it is by grace you have been saved. | Where do we find God? | |
| 1 John 3:1 | How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. | Why are we even able to seek God? | |
| Psalm 42:1-2a | As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. | How do we seek God? | |
| Psalm 73:25 | Whom have I in Heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. | Why do we seek God? | |
| Psalm 84:2 | My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. | How do we seek God? | |
| 1 John 4:19 | We love because he first loved us . | Why are we even able to seek God? | |
| Revelation 3:20 | Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. | Where do we find God? | |
| Psalm 145:18 | The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. | Isa 50:8 | Who will find God? |
| Hebrews 10:22 | Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. | How do we seek God? | |
| James 4:8 | Come near to God and he will come near to you. | Promise | |
| James 4:8 | Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. | How do we seek God? | |
| Psalm 38:9 | All my longings lie open before you, O Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you. | Psalm 63:1 | God knows our true heart |
| Psalm 63:1 | O God, you are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirst for You, my flesh longs for you in a dry and weary land where no water is. | Psalm 119:20 | How do we seek God? |
| Isaiah 26:9a | My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. | How do we seek God? | |
| Luke 6:21 | Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied | Result of seeking God | |
| Psalm 143:6 | I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. | How do we seek God? | |
| Psalm 63:5 | My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. | Result of seeking God | |
| Psalm 103:5 | who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. | Result of seeking God | |
| Psalm 107:9 | For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things. | Result of seeking God | |
| Isaiah 55:1 | Come all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; | Who are invited to seek God? | |
| and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without cost. | Who are invited to seek God? | ||
| Matthew 5:6 | Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled. | Result of seeking God | |
| John 4:14 | But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. | Result of seeking God | |
| John 6:35 | I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me will never by hungry, and he who believes in Me will never thirst. | Result of seeking God | |
| John 7:37B | If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. | Where do we find God? | |
| Revelation 22:17b | Whoever is thirsty, let him come; | Who should seek God? | |
| whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life. | Who will find God? | ||
| Psalm 25: 4-5 | Show me your ways O Lord, | We can ask God to help us seek Him | |
| Psalm 25: 4-5 | teach me your paths; | We can ask God to help us seek Him | |
| Psalm 25: 4-5 | guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior and my hope is in you all day long. | We can ask God to help us seek Him | |
| Psalm 27:14 | Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. | Seeking also requires waiting upon God | |
| Psalm 62:5 | Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from Him | Result of seeking God | |
| Hosea 12:6 | But you must return to your God; | Command to seek God | |
| Hosea 12:6 | maintain love and justice, | Requirements while we seek Him | |
| Hosea 12:6 | and wait for your God always. | Seeking also requires waiting upon God | |
| John 17:24 | Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. | Jesus wants to unite us with His Father | |
| Psalm 5:3 | In the morning O Lord, you hear my voice; | Psalm 55:17 | When should we seek God |
| in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation | Seeking also requires waiting upon God | ||
| Psalm 119:147 | I rise before dawn | Zechariah 8:21 | When should we seek God |
| and cry for help | How do we seek God? | ||
| Exodus 2:23 | The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. | How do we seek God? | |
| Exodus 2:23 | The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. | When do we seek God? | |
| Exodus 2:24-25 | God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant…..so God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them. | Result of Seeking God | |
| Exodus 14:10b | They were terrified and cried out to the Lord | When do we seek God? | |
| Psalm 34:4 | I sought the Lord | Who do we seek? | |
| Psalm 34:4 | and he answered me | Results of seeking God | |
| Psalm 34:4 | he delivered me from all my fears. | Results of seeking God | |
| Psalm 34:6 | This poor man called | Who can seek God? | |
| Psalm 34:6 | and the Lord heard him; | Results of seeking God | |
| Psalm 34:6 | he saved him out of all his troubles | Results of seeking God | |
| Psalm 61:2 | From the ends of the earth | Where should we seek God | |
| Psalm 61:2 | I call to you, | How do we seek God? | |
| Psalm 61:2 | I call as my heart grows faint; | When do we seek God? | |
| Psalm 61:2 | lead me to the rock that is higher than I. | We can ask God's help in seeking Him | |
| 2 Chronicles 7:14 | If my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, | How do we seek God? | |
| 2 Chronicles 7:14 | then I will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. | Result of seeking God | |
| Proverbs 8:7 | I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. | Jeremiah 29:13 | Result of seeking God |
| Luke 11:9 | So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. | John 14:14 | How do we seek God? |
| Luke 11:9 | So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. | Luke 18:7 | Result of seeking God |
| Psalm 55:17 | Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress | When should we seek God | |
| and he hears my voice | Result of seeking God | ||
| Jeremiah 29:13 | You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. | How should we seek God? | |
| Jeremiah 29:13 | You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. | Promise | |
| John 14:14 | You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. | Promise | |
| 1 Chronicles 16:11 | Look to the Lord and his strength; | Who do we seek? | |
| 1 Chronicles 16:11 | seek his face always. | When do we seek God? | |
| John 16: 24 | Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. | ||
| Isaiah 65:24 | Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear. | Jeremiah 33:3 | God wants us to find Him! |
| Jeremiah 33:3 | Call to me | How do we seek God? | |
| Jeremiah 33:3 | and I will answer you | Result of seeking God | |
| Jeremiah 33:3 | and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know | Result of seeking God |