These verses talk about setting one’s heart to seek God. That is, to follow him deliberately, in a totally premeditated kind of way. I encourage you not to follow him half-heartedly. Don’t just go with the flow of the Christians around you. Don’t let yourself follow him 99.9%. Go all the way in. Set your heart – right now and every day – to be all the way his.
1 Samuel 7:3 – And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
2 Chronicles 11:16 – And those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 19:3 – Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
2 Chronicles 27:6 – So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 30:18-19 – Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers.
Ezra 7:10 – For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:3 – Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
2 Chronicles 26:5 – He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.
Daniel 9:3 – Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Psalm 57:7 – My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody!
Psalm 108:1 – My heart is steadfast, O God! I will sing and make melody with all my being!
Psalm 112:7 – He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD.
What can happen when you don’t set your face to seek and obey him:
2 Chronicles 12:14 – And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
There is cause-and-effect here. The reason he did evil was not because he had resolved to. It was because he failed to set his heart to seek the Lord.
Let us set our hearts – today – to seek him fervently and go all in.
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