PREREQUISITES
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on Saturday, April 21, 2018D. PREREQUISITES
1. List the conditions necessary to a successful seeking of God as seen in:
(1) Heb. 11:6 – Faith which believes that God exists in fact and that he will reward the diligent seeker, Psa. 34:22
(2) I John 3:21 – Confidence of heart which necessitates a clean conscience, Heb. 10:22; a sanctified life, Heb. 10:22; and an obedient walk, I John 3:22
(3) II Chron. 19:3 – Preparation, by which the heart prepares itself through alignment with the ways and laws of God, II Chron. 20:33; 30:18-19; 27:6; Psa. 84:11; 50:23
(4) II Chron. 33:10-13 – Humiliation before God, II Chron. 36:12-13, 16
(5) Ezra 6:21 – Separation from worldly filthiness, II Cor. 7:1
(6) Jer. 29:13 – Wholeheartedness, II Chron. 15:15, which excludes the half-heartedness of divided interests, Psa. 119:2
(7) I Chron. 22:19 – Determination in which the heart maintains an unwavering posture toward God, II Chron. 11:16;20:3
(8) Lam. 3:21-24 – Confidence in the unfailing mercies and compassions of God
(9) Lam. 3:25-26 – Patience, awaiting the response of God in quiet confidence and hopeful expectation, Psa. 62:5; Heb. 10:35-36
(10) Hosea 10:12 – Endurance, “till he come,” i.e., until that for which he is sought be accomplished, Prov. 8:34; James 5:11
(11) Luke 11:9-10 – Importunity which petitions God for the thing desired, awaits the answer with confident expectancy and maintains this attitude with an insistent persistance that refuses to take a seeming “no” for an answer