 If you can turn with me into Psalm 63 verses one to three, I just want to be able to read to you the scripture David here talks about he says and the scripture should be behind me It says oh God you are my God early will I seek you my soul thirsts for you My flesh longs for you in a dry and a thirsty land where there is no water So I've looked for you in the sanctuary to see Your power and your glory because your loving kindness is better than life my lips shall praise you We have to understand God created each and one of us For himself that me we are to search for him that we are to worship and I where to be with him Each one of us were created with a void inside of us that without God We will always feel empty Doesn't matter what we search either like maybe Jeff that he was living his own life But that on the inside there will be a void to fill that void either with substance either with relationship either with fame business Money whatever you call it that void can only be filled by knowing God It doesn't matter where you search it in your history and time and time proves the testimony After testimony where people live for themselves trying to fill that void by nothing can be filled Because it is only filled by us knowing God It is us seeking after God and David talks about here says oh God that early Will I seek you my flesh longs for you my soul thirsts for you? David begins to realize that God this is what I want. This is what I seek This is this is what I cannot live Without the word seek is mentioned three hundred and thirteen times in the Bible to seek means to aggressively pursue Then nothing stops you from giving it as anybody in this place ever had as such a Pursuit in the life that you were so convinced that this is the thing that I wanted to do anybody here So back in the day. I don't know if you can put up the picture Back in the day when I was a young young man I was convinced I was gonna be a rapper. I just I was convinced I Was I was so passionate for it. I Was seeking anything in there. I'll listen to rap music. I dress like it. I acted like it I spent money on it. I mean you can't convince me otherwise that I was not gonna be a rapper It was something that in me that I'm just like man, I'm gonna do this I'm gonna make it you know I'm gonna prove to my family. My dad got the belt. I was like, I'll show you Man and that was the days where the hungry Jen started so you imagine what our pastor had to deal with like You guys gonna preach the world. I'll be a rapper. I'm gonna be no preacher It's like I'll talk to you after this meeting and There was those I was so passionate about so I was seeking for I mean I was spending money I dressed I was like if you looked at me. I was good at it I mean I was I was spitting rhymes whatever it was. I had this these visors, you know without the top I was put on the side put it up like I was I was wearing these clothes and it's like I Was passionate for I was seeking it and and some of us in life We have certain things that that we we spent a whole life into Pursuing after said this is the thing that I need and without it. I cannot live Without I am not fulfilled. I'll be nothing could be a career could be the girl or a boy That could be the marriage could be kids it could be finance Whatever that thing is we have to understand It is a supplement for the cry and the thirst that we have in the inside that cries out for the living God and David says that my soul and my flesh longs for you God He wants to redirect our focus to begin to say that it is those things that we are craving But it will not fill us who only leave us empty because the true enjoyment the true peace the true joy comes From knowing Jesus is pursuing after God The question is never if we are seeking the question is what or who we are seeking And it's never like oh, I'm not a secret. You know, I'm just I'm just living my own life doing my own thing Yeah, you're seeking self-pleasure And it's never thought oh, I'm not like these people know who are pursuing money or doing this each one of us We have something right now in our lives that we are currently pursuing as our focus is our energy is our time Is our investment is is everything that is about us We're pursuing after it, but I want to encourage you this morning as we're gonna have next three days And as we're gonna pursue after God is that make your hearts cry make your focus and and your energy of Pursuing after God because from him all the blessings come in my church When you see someone that is good at something that's never by a mistake It's because their energy their focus their attention is put onto it You can have a you can never have a strong relationship with God if your focus and your energy and your attention is not on it People who have who go in depth and go further with God is because they put the time into that relationship with God Is they put their focus on God is they put their energy and their love and begin to say God I love you. I want to go after you God I pursue you're everything that I want without you God. I am nothing Yes, I have these things on the side but God you are you orchestrate every event in my life without you I'm nothing the moment you take your hand off my life. I'm just like a vapor in the wind The best men the best people the most talented the most gifted people in this world are only because What God has given to them in their lives The moment God begins to lift up his grace out of their lives out of my life We are nothing we're left to our own destruction We're left to our own weaknesses When we are weak with God temptation is strong But when we are strong with God the temptation is weak I like uh one time pastor rickard preached this message still remember to this day He says that is that we are always in the middle ground and the more we Come closer to God The further we go away from satan The more we go away from God The weaker we are with With the more we go away from God the the stronger temptation and and and satan is in our lives It is the direction that we pursue and it's not that we can say i'm just going to sit In the middle ground we always are pursuing some we're always heading to that direction and it's not that oh Today i'm this or that is you you feed what you want to build and you starve what you want to kill in your life If you want a strong relationship with God you have to feed it It's not by mistake that somebody comes and overcomes certain weaknesses Witnesses in their life and lives in a blessed marriage and lives in a blessed family and has blessings from God It's not by mistake. It is because somebody pursues after God says God. I can't rely on my own strength I need you in this situation and God begins to come through why because They pursue in the direction where God is and the temptation becomes weaker We can never let go. We can never get rid of temptation, but you are much stronger. Why because you're pursuing God Some people are like, well, God devil is so strong today on me. He's just he's just defeating me My question is where are you going? Where is your contention? Where is your focus? I because that determines how strong you are When we are strong with God Temptation becomes weak And God gives us that opportunity and david reminds us. He says the early will I seek you Early will I seek why before I encounter anything before I do anything before I am put the weight Of the of the world on my shoulders I will seek God because God is my only strength from him is my strength Whom do I in heaven but you God and earth has nothing that I desire My strength and my fortress is in God alone and on him. I will wait all day long if Psalms uh, Psalm 10 verse 4 it says that The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God God is in none of his thoughts God's definition for wicked wickedness is people who don't seek him People who don't seek him and it's never that I'm not seeking anything. We are always seeking something the question is what or who Are we seeking? It's just the change of direction the change of focus the change of attention that we put on That begins to bring us to a place where we are either satisfied We're a blessed or we are deprived of what we are meant to be Deep down in our soul. We're always crave for that fulfillment That's when many people go into different religions. They they begin to seek Spiritual things the universe whatever you call it. They they begin to look for that thing to fill the void And they do not understand not realize it's only comes from us spending time with Jesus As this church this was founded it was we would never be in a place that we were at Today if God did not come through We would never be in this place today all over the world preaching the gospel if God Did not come through for our lives because in the beginning stages it was God We need you and if you do not come through we will not survive. We will not make it God wants to be that essential part of seeking in your life And it's never an issue of time but it's always an issue of priorities Always the issue of priorities I always begin to tell it to myself that sometimes that you know things happen you have kids you have Wife you have you have business you have so many things that are moving around and and you're like Oh, I didn't have time today, but God always put in my heart says it's never about the times about the priorities because If it's in the priority you always make time Some of us, you know when we were before we got into the relation we loved a person Time was never an issue, right? Money was never an issue I mean if it was one hour sleep, I'm I got this I was talking to Ed the other day and I was asking him So how did you meet your wife? He says oh We met for this and this and this and he's like, you know, then we started video chatting. He's like I was like, okay. He's like I said 12 hours later after video. I'm like, what? 12 hours later, but It's it's never about time. It's about priorities When you love something when you seek after something, I mean 12 hours to 24 hours. I'll do it And that's what it is about God us and and and this scripture that David reminds us He says I want to seek you at a best time God, I want to give you the most precious time that I have God I want to make you my pursuit because my flesh and my soul longs for you and without you I am nothing I want to challenge us this next three days are coming up Make it a priority Make a priority and begin to tell God maybe I'm going to spend five minutes You know when I wake up, but I'm gonna dedicate that time God maybe it'll be an hour whatever it will be, but God you are my priority. You're my direction You are my pursuit and you're my strength in my church You will either there's two reasons that people always see God. It's either by choice or by force Many times we become start seeking God because we Choose to When we say God that without you I'm nothing or by forces when the problems of life And the calamities of life begins to force us to our knees and say God I can't live without you We have a choice to make we can either do voluntarily or life will make us Sometimes lives will bring us to an easy and we have to understand because you cannot live I mean, I don't many of you guys some of you guys fasted and and you went three days without food on day and you drink a soda I don't everybody tried that I did Man that hurts I hurts Same thing same thing with our relationship with God when we go so long Without our soul and our life being filled with God's presence It begins to hurt us you can't go far without God Certain things that we are meant to be empowered to overcome begins to hurt us so much begins to give a stomach It begins to become sick because those problems that we were empowered to overcome because the same spirit that lives The race cries from that lives inside of us. We don't have that So when we come to those problems those problems begin to defeat us Why because we are so long without his presence without his spirit and alive that these little things that were meant to overcome begin to overcome us Choose to see God choose to run after God Choose to give your best sound with God because from him for all the blessings of life him and church Im Psalm 9 verse 10 it says And those who know your name will put their trust in you for you lord Do not forsake those who seek you Im Psalms 42 says the Lord looks down from heaven and the children of men to see if there's any who understand any who see God God is looking for people who seek him God looks upon this earth and begins to see Do you seek after me? Do you run after me? Do you pursue after me? And he finds those and he finds the light When we are going after and when we love him when we spend time with this word amen in Psalm 3410 if you can uh Go with me to that scripture and says this that It says the young line lacks and suffers hunger But those who seek the lord shall not lack any good thing somebody say but those who seek the lord Shall not lack any good thing Somebody want any good thing from the lord come on Those who seek the lord shall not lack any good thing Marriage is a good thing Salvation of your kids is a good thing Healing in your body is a good thing Having more than enough and being a blessing to your neighbor is a good thing Having good career is a good thing Having health is a good thing Having a business is a good thing having healthy kids is a good thing God says if you seek the lord you shall not lack any good thing in your life God wants to bless you But it's founded in our seeking and our pursuit after him Wherever you're at in your life God wants to bless you God wants to prosper you God wants to deliver you God wants to heal you But we have to understand that we cannot do it on our own You know, I love driving the car and it's always on e.m. Like man, I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna make it I'm gonna make it but there's days where you just don't make it And you're excited in the freeway and you just one of those guys when you drive like oh man, look at that guy, yeah It's like God does not want you to be always on I'm like, oh, I'm gonna make it I'm only hope I make it to Sunday service Hope I make it just when no god wants you too early. Will I seek you god? I'll pursue after you my passions after you my love and my heart is after you god without you I can't do nothing because I know you're on my side You're fighting my battles and I'm victorious in you Matthew 633 is most famous scripture says that by seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and everything else will be added to you It's founded in your seeking god It's founded in your pursuit After god amen. How many of you guys are going to be seeking god in this place? God will not withhold any good thing from you See, huh? I consider myself as a good dad and um I have kids. They're half russian half mexican. So it's chaos at the house My second year old will get what she wants my my baby Um, he always begs me. So that's I like that one second year old like if you want something She'll get it and I'm like put it back. She's like catch me Those are there are those relationships with god and uh by my by Josiah is the smallest one he he always comes if he wants something even though It's like he woke up. He hasn't ate nothing. He wants a cookie and I'm like, no, you can't have cookie He first got to get milk, but then he's like this like but babe. He calls me babe. I don't know why and then he Starts crying There's big tears. I'm like, where do you get all these tears like for all these years you've been crying Where are you these he's come from like huge tears But babe Fine. I'm gonna get you the cookie just don't tell them all my love for for My baby boy is evil compared to the love of the father that he asked for you Jesus says it's evil Because the love of the father towards you is so much greater We can't we can't even fathom like I mean there's nothing I will not do for for my kids nothing The god says it's still evil How much more god wants to prosper you and the things that you do The family trauma that you're going through god says it hits me more than it hits you They're my kids. I know that you're the they're your kids, but they're also my god. I paid with my blood for them He said I care for you. I watch over you. I I have my thoughts I have towards you cannot even number them. They're more than sand on the sea shore It goes like you go understand the love I have for you, but you can't understand if you don't seek out to him And it's found in a pursuit and god says I will not withhold any good thing from you as long as you give me your heart As long as you give me your attention as long as you give me your pursuit I'll begin to prosper. I'll begin to heal you and I will begin to Work wonders in your life. Amen When I end with the scripture it talks in uh Not end but kind of second chronicles 26 verse 5 you can put on the screen It says that he king uzaya saw god in the days of zikariah who had understanding the visions of god And as long as he sought the lord god made him prosper I want you to underline the last part of the verse. It says that as long as he sought the lord god made him prosper We have to be the people who seek after god The king uzaya understood that without god I can't be a king. I can't do the duties Yes, I might have my own skills. I might have wisdom might have education might have phd I might go to pre marriage class. I might take david ramsey classes I might know how to treat my body and be healthy, but without god We cannot do nothing. We are left to our own destruction and our own weaknesses As long as he sought after god god made him prosper In your marriage god wants you to make you prosper in your health god wants you to make you prosper In your finances god wants to make you prosper in your business god wants to make you prosper in your ministry in your side hustle God says seek after me and i'll make you prosper in jesus almighty name God is after us God is seeking us god is pursuing after us, but he's asking us to begin to seek him To begin to go after him In verse 15 as you continue reading this story that that god begin to bless zaya He began to create begin to innovate begins to have so many things in his life And and you begin to see how king uzaya begins to have so much stuff in his life But I want you to see in verse 15 verse 16 says so his fame Spread far and wide for he was marvelously helped Till he became strong But when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction We have to understand that God wants to prosper in your life, but not at the expense that when we become strong We begin to leave god Not at the expense when that god begins to prosper us We begin to say I don't have any more time to go to church I don't have any more time to fast and I have any more time to give and I have any more time to go to home group And I have any more time to give To the church and I have any more time and it says here's that till he became strong Till his fame spread all over the world that his heart was lifted up saying that you know, it's me I got this I can do this on my own That's why david in his word was always crying out to god says god do not take your holy spirit Do you know? Yes, I did wrong. Yes, I did everything, but don't cast me from your presence and don't withhold your spirit from me I won many battles. Yes, I was a great king But your presence lord is everything that I have in my life and don't take that away from me I might lose my kingdom, but not your presence I might lose this job opportunity. I might lose this contract I might get sick in my body, but god don't take your holy spirit from me and do not cost me from your presence And when we search after god god will begin to work with us eventually god restored the kingdom back to david Why because he wasn't concerned about his circumstances that were falling away death was in his right persecution is left But god, but david said I need your presence. I must search after you. I'm gonna run after you if you take your bible if you Open in halfway you'll be able to see that it lands into psalm 119 Which is the longest chapter in the bible And that chapter if you read about it, it's it's all about god's word It's all about how david talks about you know God's word is a light to my feet and a lamp to my path It talks about that i'm hitting your word in my heart that i might not sit against you god David begins to describe so much Things about the word of god that he begins to see it's like david has become obsessed with god's word It's big but it was because it was pursuit of knowing god When we seek god or pursue god have to understand the the praying and seeking after god is not Separated from his word it comes together We live in the day in the generation that the we are have so much word of god so much bible I mean you talk about every translation you talk about audio Visible print it on the screen it can read it to you while you drive you sleep whatever it is But yet we're the most deprived generation from the word of god I'm some I'm some woman nine one of course david says how sweet are your words to my taste Sweeter than honey to my mouth It's never that That it's boring you just haven't adopted the taste towards it I recently I gave up drinking coffee and dr. Pepper those are like my my If you give me lunch without dr. Pepper, I'll just Something comes in me. I don't know what it was hashtag I was delivered so like I literally I was like Jesus will come before I'll give up coffee and dr. Pepper. It's just that's how it was That's how literally addicted I was and slowly I was like, you know what? I'm gonna I'm gonna do this and As time went by slowly was like a week two weeks now. I'm running like four weeks or four months Whatever it is and now that I look At dr. Pepper. I'm like, how nasty is this thing is I've been googling. I'm like, well how dr. Pepper destroys your life. I'm like, that's right I feel like I'm just gonna go advocate for going against dr. Pepper, you know defund dr. Pepper, you know, so it's like All these things now what happened to me besides me being delivered Is that my taste buds became Adjusted to water The word of god before it's To some of us people like man, this is boring. It's just you haven't adopted the taste And the cravings for it That's all it is But after you stand up you build You feed what you want to build and you start what you want to kill, right? Many times our our taste towards the word of god is bitter It's like man, I can't I can't even look at it. How can somebody read it for enjoyment? This is boring It is because you're full with different other junk You're filled with politics You're filled with with uh with different news media all these things that when it comes to the word of god You are already full and you don't have any more taste towards that word of god and in proverbs 27 Seven I want you to read this first says a person who is full refuses honey But even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry When you are already full with something else the word of god will be bitter to you But even to the hungry The bud the bitter food tastes sweet You know, I've given myself a challenge for already been about a year. I say, you know, what if I walk away from Social media and I challenge myself To begin to just memorize god's word begin to study god's word. I'm like man, honestly like I'm a pastor's kid I was literally born on the second peel of the church We didn't go to the hospital, but I was like I like how can somebody just read I see my dad many times, you know Fall asleep with with god's word on the on the bible. I'm like, man, that's how how does that happen? And I begin to distance myself and say, you know what? Let me pause on this and let me just try to Learn from the word of god and By god's grace today. I I'm addicted honestly never in my life. I would ever imagine myself being addicted to memorizing god's word Even as funny as it sounds when I go to the bathroom, I'm like reviewing scriptures. I'm not even joking you Like sometimes wife is like walks. He's like, what are you doing? I'm like going through germaya Literally You can whatever you do it is fine. No judgment here Because when you begin to Starve what you want to kill and feed what you want to build god begins to give you that appetite God begins to give you that desire for his word. You begin to look at god's word. It says I cannot live without it I need god's word. I I need to meditate god's word is sweeter than honey to me I need god's word in my life because without it I can't do nothing in the bible says that god and his word are one if you want to visit god if you want to be with god Spend time with this word Memorize his word make it a part of your life because you have to understand all these news and things the politics the gods All these it's just depressing honestly Hey, look, I see an ant yahoo, whatever you want. It's so depressing. It's like Man, like you log in you read and you're like, why am I so down? Because those things they deplete you is just junk It's like this thing that you've been running on empty stomach for so long and then you just You just start drinking energy drinks and it's just it just it just destroys your your stomach God wants to put an appetite in your life God wants to restore the hunger In your life to seeking him running after him to being with him to be able to be a people That's a god early. Well, I seek you god my soul thirst for you God my flesh longs for you without you. I am nothing god as long as I live I'll run after you. I'll chase after you I'll seek after you and god says as you seek me I'll make you prosper as you run after me I'll begin to move in your life. You will see the miraculous you'll see power walking You'll see miracle signs and wonders following why because you know christ You spend time with him. You're hungry and your thirst is about him alone and that is where your strength comes from Amen church How many of you are going to seek after god? How many of you guys going to run after god? How many of you guys going to say that god you are my thirst? You are my desire? You are my love you're my pursuit. You are my passion without you I am nothing god if you take your spirit away from me. I'm left to my own weakness Do not cast me from your presence Do not take your holy spirit from me and god will give you the desires of your heart in jesus my 10. 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