IMPACT

To know the heart of the Father is to know Him and His will for our lives. Today let us focus on seeking to know Him in greater depths of insight.

Praise…
Read the following Scripture and spend time praising God…
“And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” – Isaiah 6:3

Confession…
Allow God to search your heart and mind asking Him to reveal any area of your life that He is not LORD ALMIGHTY…
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” – Psalm 139:23-24

Thanksgiving…
Spend time thanking God for what He is doing in your life…
“I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your miracles of long ago. I will meditate on all Your works and consider all Your mighty deeds.” – Psalm 77:11-12

Petition…

• Pray that we will earnestly seek God in fervent prayer, pray that our souls would thirst for Him and be satisfied only with Him.
  “Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.” 1 Chronicles 16:11
  “He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from God his Savior. Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, O God of Jacob. Selah” – Psalm 24:5-6
  “O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.” – Psalm 63:1
  “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.’” – Jeremiah 29:11-13
• Pray God will help us seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness in all areas of our personal life and church ministry and that we would not go ahead of Him in our own plans or agenda.
  “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” – Matthew 6:33
  “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
• Pray that God will pour out on us a Spirit of unity and love as we follow Him.
  “And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” – Matthew 22:39
  “May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.” – Romans 15:5-7
  “As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called – one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” – Ephesians 4:1-6
  “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” – Colossians 3:14
  “bove all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8
• Pray that God would give us a heart to know Him and that we would have greater revelations of Him daily.
  “I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.” – Jeremiah 24:7
  “…may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge–that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” – Ephesians 3:18-19
  “What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, 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 and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death…” – Philippians 3:8-10
• Pray that God would give us a heart after His heart.
  “But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.” – Psalm 33:11

  “If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.” – Proverbs 1:23
  “I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.” – Ezekiel 11:19-20

Other Scripture References

“One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek Him in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4
“O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.” – Psalm 63:1
“Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.” – Isaiah 55:6
“‘Ask 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; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.’” – Matthew 7:7-8
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” – Colossians 3:1-2