So this scripture has been a recurring thought and everywhere I turn I see it and hear it.
Proverbs 25:2 New King James Version (NKJV)

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

The other night on Instagram I saw the above post and it was like hitting Bingo for me. So I saved it and thought I'll go back to this because I feel the Lord is telling me something. So late when I had the time I went to get the post that I had saved and I spent the next 2 HOURS searching for it. I could not find it! So I went on Twitter and started following Ron Carpenter who said it and I still couldn't find it. So I messaged him and asked him and he (a very busy man) answered me and finished the quote! I told him that I had to laugh because I really felt that the Lord was showing me a principle here about searching and asking and receiving.

So this is the message. I believe that so many people get derailed and frustrated in their Christian journey is because they are unwilling and don't know that we must SEARCH out the things of God aka the Kingdom. We live in an instant give me it now society with 20 second sound bites and my beloved 90 second muffin I make in the morning. We (I) want it now and we want it to come easy, and that just not the way the Kingdom works. So much so that Jesus when he taught he taught in parables.

I have heard over and over again "well I tried that God thing and it didn't work"

Well, God is not an it and the Kingdom is where He's at and if you search for him you will find him. I know I can hear people saying, well if he's a good God why wouldn't he just give it to you. He does just give it to you in regards to SALVATION, but the KINGDOM which is where the "all this shall be added to you" is at and it's only trusted with seekers, searchers and miners. They will know the value of it and they won't misappropriate the Kingdom of God!

Now I don't want you to think that I have attained the market in this, I have not! But believe you me I am ramping up my seeking! Because friends the GOOD NEWS is this, there is MORE. Philippians 3:13-14 Brothers I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

I say all of this not to condemn in anyway but to encourage those of you that might me frustrated that answers are not coming. Keep up the search it's God's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

One last thing, and one other quote, I thank God for all the seekers who share the Kingdom with us and I thank God that we can all be that seeker.

"God doesn't give The Kingdom to casual Christians. The Kingdom is a pearl of great price that's hid from casual. He needs to know you love Him before you get keys to unlock the Kingdom." Ron Carpenter

Thanks for listening, I hope it helps someone out there that might be giving up on seeking the Lord.
Peace
Cathy

Who do you listen to?

Who do you listen to….who do you take advice from….who is the person that when they say something to you, you take pause and listen, even if you don't initially agree with what they are saying???? Do you listen to anyone, do you listen to only people that tell you what you want to hear?

Amos 3: 7 Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

Recently I have had a sense about a situation in a persons life and I could tell they just would not listen to what I had to say. Now don't get me wrong I'm not upset if they don't agree with me! What I am upset about is, if they just totally disregard what I have said and maybe miss out on what the Lord is doing for them! I am convinced that the Lord always warns us about things in our life. The key is to listen. I am speaking to myself as much as I am speaking to anyone else.

In the last year I have been praying this passage out of Job over a person

Job 33:12-18….. 12 “But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than any mortal. 13 Why do you complain to him that he responds to no one’s words[a]? 14 For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it. 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds, 16 he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, 17 to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride, 18 to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.[b]

and guess what God gave me a dream last week that scared the devil out of me….and it was a warning to me…about me ….and for me….do I like it NO! But I will when I obey the Lord because he is saving me from something bad to bring me to something far better…

Well tonight Lord I'm listening….thank you for the people that you have put into my life to help guide me….thank you for the Holy Spirit that leads me into all truth…I know that I have to get better at listening and even better at not replying….Because you can't listen if your talking.

If you took the time to read this, I pray that God puts wise people around you and that he gives you EARS to HEAR! I'm going to start pursuing LISTENING like my dog Mia Angeline pursued a steak bone…she was pretty intense over a good bone!

Isaiah 49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

He knows your name and he knows what's best for you….come into agreement with him!

Acts 28:27 For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hearwith their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.

Love and prayers

Cathy