Don’t Pass It Up – The Presidential Prayer Team

Those who seek me diligently find me. – Proverbs 8:17

What are you looking for that will make you happy? Is there some goal that you are striving to reach? Has pursuing a career taken priority in your life? With the virus issues of the year, as well as a rough election season, are you just hoping to finally settle down into what is close to the previously “normal” state of affairs – a calmness that has not been experienced for some time?

If you anticipate that your surroundings will bring you peace, or that government leaders will deliver unity of spirit, you may be disappointed. Instead, let God’s Word be the banquet to which you come and enjoy. Isaiah asks, “Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food” (Isaiah 55:2). Further direction comes quickly in verse 6: “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.”

Do you know Jesus as your Savior? Unbelief is costly, and the opportunity for salvation is available to you now. If you have already taken that step of faith, are you diligently seeking to know the Lord God better and to love Him more? This is a relationship that you don’t want to pass up.

How is your outlook? Is it one of dependence on the Lord? Look to Him. Seek His wisdom for every situation. Pray for this nation and its leaders that they may also trust in God and rely on Him for guidance. Those who diligently seek Him will surely find Him.

Today’s Verse: Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me,
and those who seek me diligently find me.

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Recommended for further reading: Isaiah 55:6-13

“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call upon him while he is near;
⁷let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
⁸For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
⁹For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

¹⁰“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
    and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
¹¹so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
    it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

¹²“For you shall go out in joy
    and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
    shall break forth into singing,
    and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
¹³Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
    instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the Lord,
    an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”