Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, February 10, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Seek

Welcome to "Fan the Flame" Friday.

This is a weekly post that will be "short and sweet" (kinda like me...)

Just a word and a phrase, a sentence or a question...just a little something to "fan the flame" of your creativity!

Today's word: seek

How do you define the word seek?

Is it the same as looking for something, or is it different?

How and where do you seek the Lord?

Let me know what you think!!

"This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you…For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." (2 Timothy 1:6-7)

(Note: I've been a little "under the weather" this week - hope to be out *visiting* everyone in the next few days!)

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

9 comments:

DebbieFebruary 10, 2012 at 4:42 AM
Good one! I'll make this answer short and sweet. Kinda like you and me.

I think seeking is specifically different from looking. Seeking implies and earnestness and intensity of seeking UNTIL what you are seeking is found. When we lost my niece at Dollywood when she was little, we were SEEKERS. We were not lookers.

I seek God in his Word and in my prayers. I look for him everywhere, but I think I SEEK him in those two places.
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UnknownFebruary 10, 2012 at 7:03 AM
Hi Sharon,

Yes I think seeking is more intense than looking. Hope you feel better soon.

God Bless
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WandaFebruary 10, 2012 at 10:10 AM
The word seek conjures up images of a diligent search that is not easily thwarted by mere inconveniences.
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SandyFebruary 10, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Seeking and looking are different in that looking seems far more casual whereas seeking to me means I am really searching hard. And that's how I define my seeking for God.
Hugs~
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DeniseFebruary 10, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Seeking is much more than just looking. When you seek after something, you do it with all of your heart, and you do not give up, until you find what you are seeking. I seek after the Lord always , with everything I am.
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Chatty CroneFebruary 10, 2012 at 11:54 AM
I seek him all the time - but sometimes I don't know if I have found him right then or not. I need to be quiet and not busy!

Sandie
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Nikki (Sarah)February 11, 2012 at 8:18 AM
seeking to me is something that I focus my whole attention on until I realize the thing I'm looking for. People tell me I never give up until I get what I'm wanting. To me...that's seeking. And I think it is different than just looking.
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CharlotteFebruary 12, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Seek to me means searching diligently. I seek the Lord in prayer, in church, in the Bible, in every good thing in life.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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PeggyFebruary 28, 2012 at 12:35 PM
Blessings Sharon,

Closing out another hour quickly at the cyber, so I thought I'd catch up on a few of your "fan the flame" words... but you know by now I'm never "short and sweet" like you...

Skipped 8 above and came directly to comments:
How do you define the word seek?

Is it the same as looking for something, or is it different?

How and where do you seek the Lord?

Seek= to search and look specifically for something

However with God... it means much more as I seek Him diligently (part of SOAR's 8 weeks of "S") so with God, I am sure that it is much deeper than just looking for, but going really in depth to search with all your heart and being to encounter much more than the surface... to really KNOW...

I seek the Lord where ever I am but enjoy it much more away from the noise of the world!
I daily need to seek Him, so I go to Him in prayer, at home, in my van, in church, in the street, when in need for His wisdom, in His Word, in a song, in nature... I think you get my point...

Love, hugs and many prayers as you SEEK,
Peggy
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Anonymous

When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

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Friday, February 10, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Seek

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