Seek God and Speak His Word Over Your Life | A Blessed Morning Prayer To Begin Your Day

[Music] have you ever thought about how we get when we want something really badly we go all in let me tell you we will stretch ourselves to the limit for what we want there are times when people do almost anything to get what they want do you remember how you cut corners and how you saved all you could for the wedding of your dreams or maybe it was for that new home your dream home maybe you did the research and you did the due diligence to to get your business started you work day and night

to get it off the ground to get it running do you remember the lengths that you went to in order for your hard work to be noted on the job or in the area of your expertise how hard did you work to take your family on that vacation that you believed they waited so long for and they so deserved now imagine imagine taking that same energy that same intensity and that hunger and using it to chase after Jesus Christ what would happen if we had that same Relentless dedication in our walk with Christ just imagine

just imagine how strong God's presence would be in our lives imagine the level of anointing that would be released over us if we chased for him the way we chase after things I'd like to turn your attention to a man who desired God In A desperate way Genesis 32: 24-28 reads and Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day when the man saw that he did not Prevail against Jacob he touched his hip socket and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him then

he said let me go for the day has broken but Jacob said I will not let you go unless you bless me and he said to him what is your name and he said Jacob then he said your name shall no longer be called Jacob but Israel for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed imagine the intensity of this scene Jacob wrestled with God In the Flesh that takes an exceptional amount of willpower and resolve Jacob wrestled with God through pain and tiredness and fatigue he wrestled all night long why because

he had such an appetite to be blessed by God some commentaries say that blessed in this scripture it means changed Jacob wanted to be changed furthermore he had the boldness to ask for that change to ask for the blessing blessing can you say that about your faith can you say that you have such a desire such an appetite that you're willing to fight through anything or anyone to be closer to God often we hold back our prayers because of Doubt because of sin but Saints God Delights in US offering sincere prayers to him of course

he knows all our wants and our needs before we can even say them but he wants us to come to him in persistent prayer asking seeking knocking demonstrating that we completely believe he is willing and able to help us in Luke Jesus tells a parable of a man who knocks on his friend's door in the middle of the night for some loaves of bread at first the friend seems unresponsive but because of the man's persistence the friend eventually relents and gives the man whatever he needs this is a picture of what it means to strive

with God even if we don't Prevail the first time keep knocking keep waiting certainly we cannot change God's mind but sometimes just sometimes our faith is an essential ingredient for whatever he has planned for us God doesn't give us everything we want as soon as we ask for it and let me tell you something that's a good thing like a good father he only provides the best for his children and sometimes he withholds certain things until we show that we are persistent enough to work for it that we are mature enough to handle it in

those situations we just have to wrestle and keep pushing until God says the time is right Heavenly Father give me a desire to know you more fill me with an all consuming Longing To Be Blessed by you give me a Divine and holy appetite an appetite that longs for you more than my body needs bread and water help me to hunger and thirst for you in an intense way Lord Jesus you the bread of life you the Living Water the one from whom all blessings flow let me always seek you walk with you grow in

you don't let me settle for anything less I don't want less than your glory revealed in my life Lord I know that you're capable of great things and I want your power to be displayed in my life not because I deserve it but because I long to have a Divine experience with you I long for the world to see how great you are in my life Lord I know that like Jake jaob I am powerless in your presence I know that I'm unworthy to stand before a pure and true God such as you I have

nothing to bring except all of me I have nothing to bring I have no chips to bargain with all I have is faith faith that you'll Bless Me Faith that you'll bless my family God I trust and I believe believe that all good things all blessings they come from you they come out of the riches of your grace they come out of the kindness of your character so God I'm asking you to give me the patience and endurance to wrestle with you in faith father when everything in my life is going wrong when I'm in

a season of dryness when I'm frustrated with the ways of this world help me to wrestle Lord help me to continue to seek you you your word in Luke 11: 9-10 it says and I tell you ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and it will be open to you for everyone who asks receives and the one who seeks finds and to the one who knocks it will be opened I pray God that I would ask see s and knock with humility recognizing my position before a holy God

but I also pray that I would ask seek and knock with a holy boldness with an abundance of faith God I don't come to you with a list of Demands but I submit to your will in all things father let your will be done as your word says no eye has seen and no ear has heard nor the heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love him Lord may your will be done in my life have your way King Jesus touch my life make your presence known God I ask that you

move in a mighty way displace everything Unholy that's connected to me this includes any friends that don't respect you every habit that doesn't honor you every Idol that threatens to take your place in my life Lord I'll count all these as loss when compared to the surpassing worth of knowing you my lord King Jesus help me to boldly approach your throne confident that you will hear me because Christ has interceded for me he's atoned for my sin and it's all because of him that I can come before you now forgive me Lord if I've been

impatient sometimes I I know that I'm so shortsighted but father help me to persevere help me to see that you're always working and as you do father help me to continue to pray without ceasing wrestling until the day breaks thank you Father for hearing every one of my prayers and for pushing me to become more patient more obedient and more devoted to you as a follower of Christ it's in Jesus name I pray amen Genesis 32: 24-28 reads and Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day when

the man saw that he did not Prevail against Jacob he touched his hip socket and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him then he said let me go for the day has broken but Jacob said I will not let you go unless you bless me and he said to him what is your name and he said Jacob then he said your name shall no longer be called Jacob but Israel for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed it says and I tell you ask and it will

be given to you seek and you will find knock and it will be open to you for everyone who asks receives and the one who seeks finds and to the one who knocks it will be opened