1:26: “For the sake of others, seek My Face. Why ‘others,’ you ask. ‘Is it not for the good of ourselves?’

“Yes, it is. And for others. Those who seek My Face become Servants. My Servants Love. My Servants Give. How does one serve me? By SERVING OTHERS. The world, even creation itself, will be made whole through the works of My Servants. My Spirit within you enlarges your heart to seek My Will – and My Will is always the service of oneself for others.

“My Son, Jesus, came to earth to serve all mankind – even to the giving of His Life. You have the best of models. Now He seeks to model you to do the same. You were MADE to Love and Serve. Such is the common destiny of all. Pride, then, stands in the way of this destiny, for it seeks only the benefit of oneself. Pride does not Love. Love conquers pride.

“What does it mean to ‘seek My Face?’ What would you find there?

“To seek My Face is to seek My Will for you – which always is for Love. What you find in My Face is an essence so Pure, so full of LOVE, that all else falls away. I long for deep relationship with you. My Face radiates this longing. All pride, all greed burns away at the sight of My Face. Sins rise as abhorrent. Purity shines, beckoning and guiding. YOU CANNOT SEEK MY FACE AMID THE CARES AND DISTRACTIONS OF THE WORLD. You must spend time with Me. You must come to the Quiet, the Secret Place of meeting with Me. Even Moses, My leader of Israel, sought My Face in the midst of the desert by coming alone into the Tent of Meeting. There I met him, covering him with My Glory and Power – to enable him to lead My People. When you seek My Face, you too will be empowered to fulfill your destiny before Me. ONLY in My Face lies your destiny. The world would snatch it away from you.

“For the sake of others – and yourself – SEEK ME. There is no substitute to spending time with Me. Does the current season in your life require all your time? I CREATED TIME. I can MULTIPLY YOUR TIME. Ask Me for this. Just as I provide the necessities of Life for you, so can I provide you with Time if you will only ask Me. And I can multiply the effect of a little time. Seeking My Face means making Me Your Priority. WHERE does your priority lie?

“SEEK MY FACE. MY FACE is your LIFE. Amen.”
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Notes:

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

Romans 8:20-21: For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Galatians 5:13-14: For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 20:28: …Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Psalm 91:1: He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Exodus 33:7, 9, 11: Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.”… As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while the Lord spoke with Moses…The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp…

II Peter 3:8: But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

Psalm 27:8: When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, O LORD, I shall seek.”