God Seekers – The Presidential Prayer Team

Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. – Hebrews 11:6

The prophet Jeremiah lived during a tumultuous time in Hebrew history. He quoted God as he penned the promise, “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). Through the ages, many have clung to that promise unaware of a small word that changes its meaning significantly. What does it mean to seek God with ALL your heart?

Instead of a checklist of accomplishments, God gives you the narratives of real-life people wholeheartedly seeking Him. Noah built an ark in obedience to God’s plan even though he had never seen rain! Moses refused lavish riches and the status of being called Pharaoh’s son to join slaves in building God’s nation on Earth. These stories provide examples that may speak into your own circumstances. What faith choices has God called you to make?

Jesus summed up what “seeking” God actually means: “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it“ (Matthew 16:24-25).

Pray for the United States to have a revolution of faith in 2022, that people from every walk of life, including those in government and policymaking, would dedicate all their hearts in obedience to God’s will. Ask that America be known as a nation brimming with wholehearted seekers of God.

Today’s Verse: Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

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Recommended for further reading: Luke 14:26-33

²⁶“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. ²⁸For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? ²⁹Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, ³⁰saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ ³¹Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³²And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. ³³So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.