Stepping into gates: – 15 Seek the Word with all your heart 

1.	Introduction
Psalms 118:24: This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.

2.	Prayer point one: Thanksgiving, adoration 

3.	Fire scriptures 
Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

4.	Seek the Word with all your heart. 
-	The dimension of stepping into gates? What is it? – This could be New beginnings, contending with strongholds, at the door knocking for a particular season to manifest.
-	It will require you to seek God with all your heart until you find him. 
-	One way of seeking God with all your heart is to Seek his Word and keep his word. 
-	Keeping the Word is preparing fertile land for the spirit of God to manifest and God himself to show-up in a mighty way
-	Joshua -installation as the Leader 
-	Fire scripture: Joshua 1:8 - Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
5.	What is to seek and keep the Word?
-	Keep means to possess, have it, keeping it safe and secure after diligently pursing something
-	Example when you give a true friend something to keep it for you upon your return. You should be able to have it intact. 
-	When you deposit money in the bank, they possess it (have it) or keep it for you and upon your request you can withdraw the monies. You can only withdraw much depending on how much you deposited. 
-	Keeping the Word is basically depositing the WORD in you. This depositing is two-fold. You have to look for the Word first with intentionality and then be intentional again to deposit it in your heart, mind and life.  
6.	Looking for the Word
-	Create time to read the word, study it 
-	What book are you reading now? Do you even have a notebook? What have you scribbled so far while studying the word?
-	What particular time do you look for the Word?
-	Sometimes looking forward requires you to shut many things. Looking for the Word with all your heart
7.	Meditate on the Word.
-	Let the WORD surround you
-	Example of the word surrounding you. It will draw you to pray, sing praises, worship even during seasons of storms. 

8.	What is the WORD? 
-	John 1:5 - 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
-	John 1:7 - The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
-	Hebrews 4:12- For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart
-	Because the word is active and alive – let it bring life. 
9.	The Word bringing life 
-	Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips. 
-	Is to speak the word at all times. Create formula’s that can be released. 
-	The word will bring guidance
-	For life to come from a seed it has to die. Some areas of you will need to die – sin, habits, behaviours
Psalm 119:105 -Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalm – 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;  I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Psalm 78: 1 – 2 My people, hear my teaching;  listen to the words of my mouth 2 I will open my mouth with a parable;   I will utter hidden things, things from of old—

-	The word should bring joy as you delight on it 
-	Psalms 1: 2 - but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.

10.	Pay attention to the Word
-	Looking for the word and storing it is not enough. Go a step further and be part of the Word
-	Obey the Word

Deut 28:13 - 13 The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.
-	Joshua 1:7 - 7 “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
-	A part of the Word is with us? 
-	John 16:13 - 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

11.	The Word is fertile land for Gods manifestation
-	Isaiah 43:26 - Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence.
-	Example - Luke 1: 5 – 21 The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold
5 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. 6 Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly. 7 But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.

11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. 12 When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. 13 But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. 14 He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born. 16 He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

12.	Summary
-	Seeking the word is looking for God through a lens in Jesus. 
-	We know Jesus is alive and he gave us his spirit – The Holy spirit
-	The Holy spirit is a person
-	He was given to us as a helper
-	Help is there at the point of your surrender and obedience
-	We need intentionality for this search
-	The WORD brings revelation

PRAYER POINTS:

-	Repentance to the hindrances of God’s word sitting in our hearts. It could be sin, lack of dedication, ignorance
-	Let’s seek God in spirit and truth for him to reveal his WORD to us
-	Other prayer points Testimonies 

13.	Conclusion 
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