SEEKING GOD’S FACE!

Psalm 27:8 AMPC

You have said, Seek My face [inquire for and require My presence as your vital need]. My heart says to You, Your face (Your presence), Lord, will I seek, inquire for, and require [of necessity and on the authority of Your Word].


Seeking God's face is a recurring theme in the Bible, often associated with wanting a deeper relationship with God, worship, prayer, and guidance. The Bible encourages us to seek God, not just His hands but His face always. Unfortunately, we seem to only want what God can give us, so we seek His hands and blessings instead of the depth of His overall presence and glory.

Seeking God’s face is to pursue His presence and to experience His favour and glory through fellowship. God addresses us with the first-person article to “Seek my face,” and David’s response to the invitation was, "Your face (Your presence), Lord, will I seek."

How many of us spend time and energy seeking everything but God’s face and presence? An evaluation and evidence of our desires indicate what we truly seek. We can’t seek God for mundane and worthless things and expect to experience His glory.

Why does the Lord tell us to seek His face? Is it because He’s hiding? No, God is not hiding. According to Proverbs 8:17, if we seek Him, we’ll find Him. The reason He wants us to seek Him is that He wants to be found by those who truly desire Him.

To seek means to search out something by any method. There is a connotation of something missing that must be found by seeking, as in lost and found. To seek something is to crave after it. Seeking God is more than seeking for a treasure, which the Kingdom of Heaven is likened to in Matthew 13:44. We must therefore make God’s rule in our lives our most treasured goal.

One must be tenacious in seeking God’s face through worship and prayer, a seeking that should be done always and not just for a time or season. We go to God in prayer about many things. We turn to Him for provision, healing, comfort, wisdom, and more. There’s nothing wrong with that because we have needs, and God desires to provide for us as promised in Philippians 4:19.

When we turn to the Lord, we are effectively seeking His face, knowing that He rules and reigns over everything and that we are willing to surrender our will to His to allow His glorious light to shine through us. When we seek the Lord, He turns His face towards us, restoring us completely from the brokenness of life and causing His face to shine on us, according to Psalm 80:19, the radiance that comes from seeking His presence.

When we seek God’s face, we crave His power, presence, favour, and blessing through prayer that transforms us continually. To experience God, we must seek after Him with all our heart. Scripture consistently encourages us to ask, “Is God just one among many pursuits, or is God chief of all our desires?” By God’s standard, His presence is His word that acts as a mirror, according to 2 Corinthians 3:18, through which we see God in us.

Seeking God’s face implies being face-to-face with God, which is a place of deep intimacy, whether in a public sanctuary or your private place to commune with the Lord. Psalm 105:4 instructs us to continually seek God’s face or presence for the Lord’s strength needed to face each day as it comes.

The only way we get to know people is to spend time with them. The same applies to God, who wants us to seek His face because He wants us to know Him through fellowship. We can learn a lot about God without knowing Him intimately but seeking Him will give us revelational and experiential knowledge of Him, as stated in Psalm 103:7. He will make His ways known to us as He did with Moses when we spend time seeking His ways. Seeking God’s face reveals His will.

PRAYER: Lord, help me to seek and keep seeking after you with all of me, that I may know you more and more in Jesus’ name, amen.

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