From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>

To: "1111RESCUEMEMBERS"

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Sent: Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 5:24 AM

Subject: 11-11-21 THOUGHTS

11-11-21   THOUGHTS  

We must seek God with all of our heart, and WE MUST FIND HIM!   We must fully find Him...  Not just in NAME OR IDEA, BUT IN PRESENCE!  
Eph 3:16-19  that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18  may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19  and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Isa 55:8-11    "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.  9  "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts. 10  "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And  furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;  11  So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
Deut 4:29-40    "But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. 30  "When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice. 31  "For the LORD your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them. 32  "Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?  33  "Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?  34  "Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?  35  "To you it was shown that you might know that the LORD, He is God; there is no other besides Him. 36  "Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. 37  "Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, 38  driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. 39  "Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. 40  "So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time."

My Prayer:
O God, may we seek you with our whole heart, and may we find all of you.  Help to always abide in your presence.  Teach us to shut out the noises of this world, that we can purely enjoy your awesome mind.  May your word be living and active in our hearts so that we can grow to fulness and maturity in you.  Teach us to pray O Lord.    In the name of our Savior       Amen