Spiritual Thoughts

  H e who seeks, finds, if he does not lose heart. ~ Alfred Thayer Mahan T hen you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. ~ Jeremiah 29:12-13 (ESV)

  Friday Tale - You Search out my Path   I remember searchlights as a boy. Beams of light would sweep across the sky from near where I lived. They were searching for enemy planes, if they found one they would lock on to it and the gunners would try to shoot it down. My wife Fran had gunners right near her house.            We were reminded of this by our reading of Psalm 139 today. “ Oh LORD you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up … you search out my path ” [v. 1-3]. But David realizes that God’s power to “see” extends far beyond what we do physically. We read, “ you discern my thoughts from afar … even before a word is on my tongue …” [v.4]              In the language young people use today, they would describe as ‘awesome’ the thought that God knows our thoughts before we...

  I nstructions for living a life: Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell about it. Have Faith. Be Hopeful. ~ Mary Oliver (amended)   H e who gives attention to the Word will find good, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD. ~ Proverbs 16:20 

A sking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. ~ Jim Rohn A sk and it will be given to you;  seek and you will find;   knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks the door will be opened. ~ Matthew 7:7-8

T he bad news: we often find ourselves in trouble. The good news: we often find ourselves. Dr. Mardy Grothe F or the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.   -Luke 19:10  

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. J. R. R. Tolkien "Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near. You have said, "Seek my face." My heart says to you, "Your face, LORD, do I seek." Isaiah 55:6; Psalm 27:8

“Never regret yesterday.        Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.” L. Ron Hubbard And you will seek Me and find Me,       when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the LORD, Jeremiah 29:13-14