Jeremiah 29:13-14

¹³ "And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. ¹⁴ I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity"

When I was struggling with my faith as we all do from time to time.....I remember hearing this scripture often.....God's still small voice asking me to seek Him.....

So I said...."your face Lord will I seek!"

What is Captivity? It is a stronghold that you face.  Everyone has a different stronghold in life.  That stronghold can lead us into captivity.....where you can be held for many years......it is a dark place, where it seems hopeless, cold and empty....a place where you are a prisoner to your surroundings.....a place where strongholds abound and it seems there is no way out......

Ah.....but there is......I found that if YOU/WE seek, the Lord, we will always find Him....He is always there....no matter where WE are....And He will meet us where WE are no matter how disastrous our mess is.  I took the time to look for God in all things and at all times.....I committed myself to scripture reading, to prayer and to exaltation...even when i didn't feel Him near..... I knew He was.....Our response to things in this life is so important and how we respond when things are put in our path determines the maturity of our spiritual condition.....I learned it doesn't matter what we WANT to do, it matters what we NEED to do. 
I felt lonely and far off from God, not because He moved, but because I chose my own path....I moved.  So I searched again for Him with my whole heart, but not with partial seeking....not with thoughts like.."Well, i don't see Him, so i guess I'll try again later" but I KNOW you are here and I will wait patiently on the Lord and seek Him regardless.....I will wait for The Spirit of God to fall on me....when i didn't hear from Him right away I said I will beg, plead, cry, hit, kick and scream until I find Him.....that is how treacherously we need Him....I am so humbled to have heard Him and that the Spirit of God gave me strength to do so.  I want and need nothing more than Him.

Prayer for the Day::

Might God! We come here into your presence asking for your spirit to fall fresh on us! Revive our hearts and our minds! Quicken our feet to do your holy will, in accordance to what you have prepared before the beginning of time! Father, we humbly ask for your hand of mercy and strength to lead us and guide us.  Lord Jesus we thank you for your humble sacrifice for us to again reconcile us to yourselves.... In Jesus Holy Name.....Amen