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Desire: Spiritual Deuteronomy 4:29
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 9:1
For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonders.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 17:1
A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer—it comes from lips free of deceit.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 22:26
The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 24:6
Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 25:5, 15
Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You. / My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 27:8, 14
My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek. / Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 33:20
Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 34:10
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 37:4, 7, 9, 34
Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart. / Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes. / For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 40:1, 8
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry. / I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 42:1–11
For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. / My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence? / My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 51:1–17
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. / Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. / For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 62:1
For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. In God alone my soul finds rest; my salvation comes from Him.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 63:1, 8
A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water. / My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 68:28
Summon Your power, O God; show Your strength, O God, which You have exerted on our behalf.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 69:3, 32
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God. / The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 70:4
May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 81:10
I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 84:2
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 86:11, 12, 16
Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name. / I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever. / Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 94:19
When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 105:4
Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 118:17
I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 119:2, 10, 20, 40, 77, 88, 116, 117, 122, 133, 149, 156
Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart. / With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments. / My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 123:1, 2
A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven. / As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 130:5, 6
I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope. / My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Psalm 143:5, 6
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands. / I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Proverbs 2:3–5
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, / if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, / then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Proverbs 8:17, 34
I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me. / Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Isaiah 8:17, 19
I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him. / When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Isaiah 26:8, 9
Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls. / My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Isaiah 40:31
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Isaiah 55:1, 2, 6
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! / Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. / Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Jeremiah 29:13
You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Lamentations 3:25, 26, 41
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. / It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. / Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Habakkuk 3:2
O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Luke 6:21
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Luke 10:42
But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Open passageDesire: Spiritual John 12:20, 21
Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast. / They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Philippians 3:12–14
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. / Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, / I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
Open passageDesire: Spiritual Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
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