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Since an early age my girls have enjoyed it when I chase them and try to catch them.  It goes something like this.  Riley or Sidney will slowly walk up to me when I am sitting down.  They will look at me with a look that only a father understands.  It is a look that says, pursue me.   So I slowly get up and tell them, “I am going to get you.”  They get this excited and loving look on their face, turn around, and run as fast as they can.  All the time they know that I am in pursuit.  It ends in me chasing, catching, and gently wrapping them up in my arms and rolling on the floor in one big pile of hugs, kisses, and giggling.  Because of this “pursuit” game they understand that they are worth the effort to catch.  They are looking for validation from their father and I want them to have the security of knowing that their father will pursue them for as long as it takes.

The girls stayed with grandparrents last night, so my wife and I decided to spend an extended time in worship and prayer together alone.  As we were laying there on the living room floor during worship I heard that familiar small voice.  It went something like this, “Scott I want you to pursue Me because I enjoy it when you seek My heart.  I will answer your questions but I will not answer before you pursue me.”  It made me realize that our Father requires our love and our pursuit of Him.  He is a jealous God and He wants us to run after Him.

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you (Matthew 7:7, NKJV).

If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14, NKJV).

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