Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are picking up with day three

of our Seek in Seven which is a devotional for a God first lifestyle. There's a link to that

in the description of the podcast if you guys want to fall along with us. And as always,

I'm going to read the scripture and Tor is going to pick up with the Devo. Let's do it.

The scripture is Job chapter five verse eight and it says this,

as for me, I will seek God and to God, I will commit my cause.

The devotional says one of the greatest lessons I ever learned was that in order to seek God consistently,

you need his assistance. The truth is that we have an adversary. There exist a being that does not

want us to succeed or to grow deeper in God. He sends distractions, obstacles and traps to keep

us from seeking God. However, we can be consistent if we seek God's assistance. We must understand

that we need him to accomplish anything. As we seek God's assistance, we can access the promise

that comes from God through the Holy Spirit. This assistance is supernatural and helps us anticipate

distractions, overcome obstacles and push past every challenge. His presence will be with us as we

open our devotion and even kneel to pray. If we seek his assistance, he will remind us when we forget

and draw us when we get distracted. The Holy Spirit also will intercede for us, guiding our

prayers. Know that this is God's design. He desires to be with us as we attempt to seek after him.

He wants to help us be consistent in seeking him. In this scripture in Job, a man named Elphaz

is speaking. He declares he will seek the Lord as you have. But then he says something else that

is so important. He says he will commit his cause to the Lord. Another version of the Bible says,

I will lay my cause before him. He acknowledges the need to lay down his own goals, logic and rationale

and exchange for the presence of God. So today, as you go through the day, lay everything you want to

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