LTCi Chapel - 7/08/2011 - Amos 5
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Amos 5:1-6
Sunday 7 August 2011
Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you: 2 “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.” 3 This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Israel: “Your city that marches out a thousand strong will have only a hundred left; your town that marches out a hundred strong will have only ten left.”
Sunday 7 August 2011
4 This is what the LORD says to Israel: “Seek me and live; 5 do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.” 6 Seek the LORD and live, or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
Sunday 7 August 2011
The Rebuke
PurityDependence
Passion...and much more - lost
Sunday 7 August 2011
The Rebuke
PurityDependence
Passion...and much more - lost
Sunday 7 August 2011
The Rebuke
PurityDependence
Passion...and much more - lost
Sunday 7 August 2011
Seek the Lordandlive
Amos 5:4, 6
Their, and our, Response
Sunday 7 August 2011
OT and NT words for "seek" mean:
to seek the face of God;
to desire;to seek earnestly;
to crave;to pursue.
Seeking the Lord means seeking his
presence
Sunday 7 August 2011
Oh give thanks to the LORD;call upon his name;
make known his deeds among the peoples!Sing to him, sing praises to him;
tell of all his wondrous works!Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those whoseek the LORD rejoice!
Seek the LORD and his strength;seek his presence continually!
Psalm 105:1-4
Sunday 7 August 2011
...you will seek the LORD your God and you
will find him, if you search after him with all
your heart and with all your soul.
Deut. 4:28
Sunday 7 August 2011
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things
that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of
God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things
that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is
hidden with Christ in God.Col 3:1-3
Sunday 7 August 2011
Our (failing) Response
Never starting
Giving upWe don’t
know God’s desire
Sunday 7 August 2011
Our (failing) Response
Never starting
Giving upWe don’t
know God’s desire
Sunday 7 August 2011
Our (failing) Response
Never starting
Giving upWe don’t
know God’s desire
Sunday 7 August 2011
Ask and it will be given to you;seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.Matt 7:7
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
Isaiah 55:6...devote your heart and soul
to seeking the LORD your God.1 Chron 22:19
Sunday 7 August 2011
By myself I can do nothing; I judge
only as I hear, and my judgment is
just, for I seek not to please myself
but him who sent me.
John 5:30
Sunday 7 August 2011
The Remedy
repentseek God every
dayread the Bible
pray
Sunday 7 August 2011
set your heart upon him
listen ask for the Holy Spirit
Sunday 7 August 2011
"God does nothing except in response to
believing prayer."
John Wesley
Sunday 7 August 2011
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you
have received it, and it will be yours. And when you
stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone,
forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may
forgive you your sins.”
Sunday 7 August 2011
“One day George Mueller began praying for five of his friends. After many months, one of them came to the Lord. Ten years later,
two others were converted. It took 25 years before the fourth man was saved.
Mueller persevered in prayer until his death for the fifth friend, and throughout those 52 years he never gave up hoping that he
would accept Christ! His faith was rewarded, for soon after Mueller’s funeral
the last one was saved.”
Sunday 7 August 2011
Faced with a pile of problems, we may say with
our lips that only prayer can solve them, yet we talk more
than pray, worry more than pray, and scheme more than
pray. In sum, we put everything before prayer;
Watchman Nee
Sunday 7 August 2011
The Reward
God
Sunday 7 August 2011
What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have
lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not
having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith
in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know
Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his
sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection
from the dead.
Sunday 7 August 2011
Intimacy with God and the fullest fellowship and
partnership with Him comes as you desire
and seek to know Him, His plans, His
will and His ways. Prayer and spending time with God is all about a desire and
passion for GodAnonymous
Sunday 7 August 2011
Sunday 7 August 2011
Seeking the Lord means seeking his presence.
“Presence” is a common translation of the
Hebrew word “face.” Literally, we are to seek
his “face.” But this is the Hebraic way of
having access to God. To be before his face is to
be in his presence.John Piper
Sunday 7 August 2011
"Don't seek God's hand; seek his face.
Don't seek God's face; seek God's heart."
God’s hand = God at workGod’s face = God loving me.
God as he is. God’s heart =God's heart for
Others, what he values, loves, hates, etc.
Sunday 7 August 2011
Faced with a pile of problems, we may say with
our lips that only prayer can solve them, yet we talk more
than pray, worry more than pray, and scheme more than
pray. In sum, we put everything before prayer; other things are placed in
prominent positions while prayer is relegated to last
place; it is the only thing which is not so important.
Watchman Nee
Sunday 7 August 2011
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