February 20, 2024 - Jeremiah‬ ‭29:12-13

“Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me, and I will hear you. When you look for me, you will find me. When you wholeheartedly seek me,” Jeremiah 29:12-13 GW

Lord, we worship you, the God who hears us. You hear our every prayer. You hear the deepest cry of our hearts and souls. The things that we have never even spoken out loud, you hear. Thank you for how well you listen to us and understand us. We praise you, the God who answers us. Thank you that not only do you hear us, but you answer us. You place the answers all around us. They are in creation; they are in your Word; they come in the whisper of the breeze and the roar of the sea. We thank you that you answer the huge needs that we must have to survive and the smallest of desires that really don’t matter at all, yet they scream your love the loudest.

Lord, teach us to come and pray to you continually, to have you constantly in our thoughts and minds. We want to live a lifestyle of prayer. We want to know what having a relationship with you really is. We want to truly know what it means to seek you wholeheartedly - to have you be the treasure that we spend our whole lives searching for more of. We want to be obsessed with going deeper in the revelation of you.

Help us align our lives to make this a reality. Show us the things that are distracting us from finding more of you. Help us remove anything from our lives that keeps us from pursuing you wholeheartedly. Help us persevere in seeking when it isn’t easy. Place a deeper desire within us to have more of you. We thank you that you will answer that prayer. We thank you that the more of you we discover, the more of you we will want. We praise you for making yourself findable to us. You promise that when we knock you are there and when we seek, we will find. Thank you, Father!

In Jesus name, amen.