Tag Archives: Jeremiah 29:13

Find Me

Posted on by
Reply
Discipleship Devotional Study Guide - Promises - Day 31 - Jeremiah 29:13- Find Me - Growing As Disciples

Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Promises – Day 31 – Jeremiah 29:13- Find Me – Growing As Disciples

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)

Seek You

That is what I will do. What will you do? I will seek you with all my heart. Why will you seek me with all your heart? That is a very good question. Do you have an answer? Yes, I will seek you with all my heart because I want to know you. I don’t want to know about you. I actually want to know you. I don’t want to know you a little bit. I want to know you intimately. I want to know your thoughts. I want to know your ways. I want to know your purposes and plans. I want to know anything and everything I can about you. I will seek you with all my heart so I can find you. That will be very good.

What will happen to you as you seek me with all your heart? I will be changed. How so? Day by day, as I seek you, as I come into your presence, as I draw near to you, I will be changed. I can’t remain the same as I come to know you. Your words will be come my words. Your thoughts will become my thoughts. Your actions will become my actions.  You will make me to be more and more like you as I spend time with you. Yes, I will. As I come to know you, I will come to love you, as I come to love you, I will come to follow you. As I come to follow you, I will come to serve you. That will be very good.

How will you seek me with all your heart? Your thoughts alone, without actions, will not be enough. Your desires must be into practice. How will you make seeking me the priority of your life? I will set a time and secure a place to meet with you. In our time together, I will draw near to you in prayer. I will draw near to you in worship. I will draw near to you in your word. I will draw near to you in fellowship in your body, the church. I will draw near to you in service as I follow you to wherever you lead me and to do whatever you ask of me. No matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, my heart and mind and life will be attentive to you. Speak to me, I am listening. Show yourself to me, I am watching. Help me to know and love and follow and serve you as I seek you with all my heart. Yes, I will, without a doubt, you can be sure it that. Thank you, Lord. 

Lord, it will be my daily practice to seek you with all my heart. I will set aside a daily time and place to meet with you. I want to find you. I want to know you. I want to love and follow you. Show yourself to me. Guard and guide and bless my life as I seek you. Amen

Key Question… How are you making it your daily practice to seek God with all your heart?

Living It Out… Make it your daily practice to seek God with all your heart..

Seeing It Happen… Have faith that you will you will find God when you seek Him with all your heart.

Get Ready To Share… Share with another person or your small group how you are seeking God with all your heart.

Prayer To Bless Others… May you seek the Lord with all your heart so you can find Him.

For today’s complete 4 page Discipleship Devotional Study Guide click here:

Promises – Day 31 – Jeremiah 29-13 – Find Me – 4 Page Discipleship Devotional Study Guide

Please consider sharing these devotionals with others through the social media you use.

Individual users may save the Discipleship Devotional study guide to their desktop for private use. All the blanks in the study guides are fields that allow typed responses. To use the fields on the study guide you may need to open the guide with a free version of adobe reader.

By Jon Ulrich © All rights reserved                   Copying not permitted                      www.GrowingAsDisciples.com

Seek – Find

Posted on by
Reply
Discipleship Devotional Study Guide - Rhythms - Jeremiah 29:13 - Seek-Find - Growing As Disciples

Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Rhythms – Jeremiah 29:13 – Seek-Find – Growing As Disciples

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)

All My Heart

I know that I have not always sought you with all my heart. There have been many times when I have not sought you at all. I have gone and done my own thing. I have lived my own self-sufficient and self-reliant life. I have pursued my own plans. I have followed my own purposes. I have sought my own comfort and pleasure. I have lived a life, quite apart from you. How was that life? It was no life at all. Nothing I pursued could fill the emptiness inside of me. There was nowhere I could go or nothing I could do that would fill the void inside of me. Every pursuit, every accomplishment, every comfort and every pleasure left me feeling empty. But that isn’t half the story. What is the rest of the story? My self-centered and self-reliant life left me bruised and battered and broken. How so? I lived for myself. I enjoyed things. I used people. I lived a dark and sinful life. I walked on a path that led further and further away from you. At least that is what I thought. I’m glad you added that.

What happened to you? I reached rock bottom. I could take it no more. I wanted no more of my empty and meaningless life. I had enough. I felt like I was without hope in a dark and broken world. What did you do? I cried out to you. I asked you to show yourself to me. I say I asked. I really screamed. I would have heard you either way. Yes, but you heard the depth and pain with which I cried out to you. Yes, I did. I deserved nothing from you. No, you did not. Yet, you heard my cry. You answered my prayer. Yes, I did. You were with me even in the darkness of my empty life. Yes, I was. I was not so far away from you that I could not be found by you. No, you were not.

I have been following you now, for many years. Have I always sought you with all my heart? Have I ever sought you with all my heart? The answer to both questions is probably not. Yet, the desire to follow you with all my heart burns hot within me. Yes, it does. Well, I have this one request of you. What’s that? Fan the flame of my desire to seek you with all my heart. Make my desire to seek and know you burn white hot within me. I want to know you. I want to love you. I want to follow and serve you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. I will hear and answer your prayer. You will seek me with all your heart. You will find me. You will know and love and follow and serve me with all your heart. Thank you, Lord. 

Lord, thank you for your promises. Thank you for your word. Thank you for your faithfulness. I will seek you with all my heart. I know I will find you as I seek you with all my heart. You will help me to come to know you. You will help me to go and do your will. Amen

For today’s complete 4 page Discipleship Devotional Study Guide click here:

Rhythms – Jeremiah 29-13 – Seek – Find – 4 Page Discipleship Devotional Study Guide

Please consider sharing these devotionals with others through the social media you use.

Individual users may save the Discipleship Devotional Study Guide to their desktop for private use. All the blanks in the study guides are fields that allow typed responses. To use the fields on the study guide you may need to open the guide with a free version of adobe reader.

By Jon Ulrich © All rights reserved                   Copying not permitted                      www.GrowingAsDisciples.com

Seek Me

Posted on by
Reply
Discipleship Devotional Study Guide - God's Will - Jeremiah 29:13 - Seek Me - Growing As Disciples

Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – God’s Will – Jeremiah 29:13 – Seek Me – Growing As Disciples

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)

All Your Heart

That is a very important concept. What’s that? I want you to think deeply about seeking me with all your heart. I want you to consider what it means to seek me with all your heart. I want you to take the thought of seeking me with all your heart deeply into your heart and mind and life. What does seeking me with all your heart look like? Why do you want to seek me with all your heart? Why is seeking me with all your heart a worthy pursuit for your entire life. How will your life look different because you are seeking me with all your heart? Where will you go because you are seeking me with all your heart? What will you do because you are seeking me with all your heart? What will you let go of and leave behind because you are seeking me with all your heart? What will you take hold of and move forward with because you are seeking me with all your heart? How will seeking me with all your heart change your thoughts and words and deeds. What will hinder or help you to seek me with all your heart? When have you sought me with less than your whole heart? Are you now seeking me with all your heart? What will need to happen for you to decide to seek me with your whole heart? How will you keep on seeking me with your whole heart? Have I asked you enough questions? Have I given you enough to think about? You have asked me enough questions. I don’t know how I will ever be able to fully answer all your questions. I did not ask you all these questions with the expectation that you would answer every one of them. I asked you all these questions to help you to think about the importance of seeking me with all your heart. I get it.

I know that I have not always sought you with all my heart. I know that there have been many times that I have followed you half-heartedly. At times, there has been a battle raging in my heart and mind and life over the question of seeking you with all my heart. Yes, I know, what about now? Now, seeking you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength is an answered question. I will seek you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. How has this become an asked and answered question for you? I can tell you one thing for certain. What’s that? Seeking you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength is not an effort of my will. It’s not, then what is it? Seeking you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength is an act of my heart. I am seeking you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength because I love you. I have no other desire. I have no other hope. I have no other purpose. Your love for me and my love for you makes me want to seek you with all my heart. It is no sacrifice for me to seek you with all my heart. It is my joy to seek you with all my heart. I am doing what I was made to do. I am doing what I want to do. I am doing what is pleasing to you. I am fully living my life with and for you. Yes, you are and that is very good. 

Lord, I love you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. It is my joy to seek you with all my heart. It is my desire to do what is pleasing to you. I want to fully live my life with and for you. I will follow and serve you wherever you lead me. Amen

For today’s complete 4 page Discipleship Devotional Study Guide click here:

Heart – Jeremiah 29-13 – Seek Me – 4 Page Discipleship Devotional Study Guide

Individual users may save the Discipleship Devotional Study Guide to their desktop for private use. All the blanks in the study guides are fields that allow typed responses. To use the fields on the study guide you may need to open the guide with a free version of adobe reader.

Please consider sharing these devotionals with others through the social media you use.

By Jon Ulrich © All rights reserved                   Copying not permitted                      www.GrowingAsDisciples.com