SEEK HIS FACE

1 Chronicles 16:11 NIV Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.

Sometimes, when we look at people’s faces it’s hard to tell what they’re really thinking because they don’t want us to know! But God is not like that! He wants us to seek His face, to know He is looking at us with kindness and love.

2 Corinthians 4:6 NLT For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness”, has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. 

There’s an old song “Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.”

When we look into Jesus’ face we will see His compassion and His strength to enable us to face our challenges. We’ll see His ability and power to deal with whatever is worrying us and His willingness to do it.

We’ll be filled with His peace and joy because He is our Champion, the One who doesn’t just have the victory but who has given it to us. He wants us to go into our day from a place of victory, not hoping to get one!😊

Psalm 105:4 ESV Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! It reminds us to seek His face always, continually, not just when we’re desperate, not when all else fails, but every day throughout our day so we can not only receive His love, but also so we can have His perspective on things, His wisdom and His peace in every situation. 

It’s like everything else in life, the more we practice doing it, the better at it we’ll become.😊 So whatever you are doing today here are a couple more verses to remind us to seek His face and know His face is shining on you. Amen.

Hebrews 12:2 NKJV Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith.

Numbers 6:25-26 NIV the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;  the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”

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SEEN AND UNSEEN

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NLT So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

Do you ever get so bogged down with some trouble that you can’t see past the end of your nose? Those times when things steal our peace and worry us. Paul had been through a lot of ‘troubles’, more than most but he tells us his secret. 

He says look past what we can ‘see’, and fix our gaze onto the things that we can’t see with our physical eyes because the things we can see won’t be here forever anyway so we’re not to get so hung up on them because they’re all subject to change.😊                      

So how do we fix our gaze on things we can’t see?  Well the things we do see are obviously our physical bodies, the things we own, our jobs or achievements. It may be the hardships we face or things we’re suffering like ill health. So he says to move our gaze off those on to the unseen.

God Himself is unseen but we can focus on His nature which is revealed in His Word. It shows His immense love for us, His faithfulness, His power and majesty. He gives us security when the storms blow, because we know He will hold us steady because He is steadfast.

We can remind ourselves about our future in heaven, of the glory to come, of our eternity with Him when our ‘now’ is not what we would like it to be. This life is a drop in the ocean compared to the eternity to come.

God has given each one of us at least one angel assigned to minister to those of us who are being saved and they are extremely powerful, far more than we may realise.😊

We can remember to keep our eyes on His promises, knowing God cannot lie and all His promises are yes and amen in Jesus. They allow us to call forth from the unseen realm those things we need in the physical realm. Don’t let’s be so earthly minded we forget we are spiritual beings!

And don’t forget He rewards those who diligently seek Him.😊

So if anyone is feeling bogged down today God is encouraging us to look up, to remember we are citizens of heaven, filled with his Holy Spirit and our future is guaranteed with Jesus. Amen.

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