Saturday August 22nd, 2026
« Amplified Then [with a deep longing] you will seek Me and require Me [as a vital necessity] and [you will] find Me when you search for Me with all your heart »
«CEVYou will worship me with all your heart, and I will be with you »
«GNT You will seek me, and you will find me because you will seek me with all your heart »
1 O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.
2 So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory.
3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.
4 Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.
6 When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.
7 Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.
8 My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me.
- Hebrews 11:6 says that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
Diligent : in a way that is careful and uses a lot of effort
You only reward someone who has done something of good report and has done it well,
therefore, what the passage is really telling us is that God wants people to seek Him diligently.
This is why God told David clearly to seek His face, and what was David’s response? Psalm 27:8
« NKJV When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”
Amplified When You said, “Seek My face [in prayer, require My presence as your greatest need],” my heart said to You, “Your face, O LORD, I will seek [on the authority of Your word].” »
David said,
“God, when you ask me to seek your face, my heart says,
‘Your face will I seek.’”
Today, God is asking you to spend time seeking His face.
What will your response be ?
You seek God through Bible study and prayers.
While others do these things like every other activity, those who diligently seek God go the extra mile.
They study their Bible for hours, going deeper and deeper into just one topic until they really understand God’s mind about that topic.
To them, prayer is not an event, it is a lifestyle.
Every time you see them, they are praying because 1 Thessalonians 5:17 says that we must pray without ceasing.
When they actually set out time to pray, they don’t just put words together,
they pour out their hearts to God and their major yearning is, “Lord, I want to know You more.”
They spend multiple hours just having heart-to-heart talks with God.
- Beloved, seek God’s face daily until you fall asleep and even while you are sleeping.
Solomon said that even when He is sleeping, his heart is awake, and can hear his beloved asking to come in unto him, Song of Solomon 5:2.
David also described how he thinks about God on his bed at night and how his soul follows hard after God in Psalm 63:6-8.
These are descriptions of how true love is expressed.
Is this also your experience with God as your beloved ?
- There is great reward in diligently seeking the Lord.
Beloved, spend your days seeking God and God alone.
Seek Him while you are eating; let all your yearning be for Him.
When you diligently seek Him, He will open Himself up in ways that the regular Christian may never see.
There are things God has revealed to me in the Spirit that I cannot share publicly because people who have not sought Him diligently may never understand.
Application – Make a commitment to seeking God’s face diligently from now.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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