Not all religions point toward God! - part 3

Not all religions point toward God! part 3

Ease the pain of your past!

This is the path of people who seek The Lord God in their life - but how?

Begin with Faith in your relationship with Our heavenly Father...

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 The Faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah

…5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.  
6 Because without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

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Many have prayed for deliverance; yet many believers have new Spirits but still carry wounded souls...  God has embedded in each of our souls the desire to return to Him! 

Start by not being so hard upon yourself... We each have had to deal with put-downs from many in our life; but what is worse is the put-downs that come from yourself! Words hurt more than any physical pain; and pierce ad penetrate to our very core!  So first you must learn to love yourself... This is not a snobbish self centered view - rather the way to respect learn to respect yourself!

The words spoken can be either positive or negative - seek the positive!

 This is what the True Church of the Lord Jesus Christ tells us...
 Seek the Lord God!

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Seeking the Lord means seeking his presence. “Presence” is a common translation of the Hebrew word “face.” Literally, we are to seek his “face.” But this is the Hebraic way of having access to God. To be before his face is to be in his presence.

What It Means to Seek:
This happens through “seeking.” Continual seeking. But what does that mean practically? Both the Old and New Testaments say it is a “setting of the mind and heart” on God. It is the conscious fixing or focusing of our mind’s attention and our heart’s affection on God.

But aren’t his children always in his presence? Yes and no. Yes in two senses: First, in the sense that God is omnipresent and therefore always near everything and everyone. He holds everything in being. His power is ever-present in sustaining and governing all things.

  This is a setting of the mind which is the opposite of mental coasting. It is a conscious choice to direct the heart toward God. This is what Paul prays for the church: “May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ” (2 Thessalonians 3:5). It is a conscious effort on our part. But that effort to seek God is a gift from God.

And second, yes, he is always present with his children in the sense of his covenant commitment to always stand by us and work for us and turn everything for our good.
 “Behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).

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 Matt 6:33

  Do Not Worry
…32 "For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.  
33 "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.  
34 "So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

The great promise to those who seek the Lord is that he will be found. “If you seek him, he will be found by you” (1 Chronicles 28:9). And when he is found, there is great reward. “Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him” (Hebrews 11:6). God himself is our greatest reward. And when we have him, we have everything. Therefore, “Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!”

Obstacles to Avoid

And there are endless obstacles that we must get around in order to see him clearly, and so that we can be in the light of his presence. We must flee spiritually dulling activities. We must run from them and get around them. They are blocking our way.
We know what makes us vitally sensitive to God’s appearances in the world and in the word. And we know what dulls us and blinds us and makes us not even want to seek him. These things we must move away from and go around if we would see God. That is what seeking God involves.
And as we direct our minds and hearts Godward in all our experiences, we cry out to him. This too is what seeking him means.

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.” (Isaiah 55:6)

"If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy . . . ”    (Job 8:5)

   O Lord, open my eyes. O Lord, pull back the curtain of my own blindness. Lord, have mercy and reveal yourself. I long to see your face.

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 This is the beginning and the way to The Lord God Almighty!