Hello, thanks for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of our post is,

What God is Searching for. It's Cece, by the way, told me you shouldn't end a sentence

with a preposition. And I said, it's not a sentence, it's a title. What God is looking for.

It is difficult to imagine an all-knowing and ever-present God having to search for anything.

However, as outlandish as it seems, there are a few things the scriptures say God is searching for.

The first of them is simply us, people. the scriptures say God is searching for.

The first of them is simply us, people.

Luke 1910 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

God is also seeking worshippers, but the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth, for the father seeketh such to worship him. John 423. He is not seeking

worship, but the worshipper, the person. It is a relationship with us that Abba wants,

not a song. God doesn't need to be told how wonderful he is, but he certainly appreciates it

when he receives heartfelt love, whether through a song, a statement, or an action.

What an outrageous thought. God, looking for a relational connection with a human.

But he is. Second Chronicle 169 tells us this in another way. It pictures the eyes of the Lord

looking throughout the earth for hearts fully given to him, doing so in order to bless them.

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong in

the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Imagine that, if you can. It's hard to

imagine the unimaginable, isn't it? Then there's prayer.

God seeks intercessors.

In Ezekiel 22, 30 and 31, one of the most tragic passages in the Bible, God states,

and I sought, there it is.

I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it.

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