The basic foundation of our seeking is defined in Matt. 6:33 which Jesus states. "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all things will be added to you."

The word seeks in the Greek Concordance is zeteo: meaning, to have a desire to worship God and ask him how His kingdom operates. God's kingdom is not a democracy where people vote and have power to do and operate on what they want or not want to believe. God is a King and His ultimate decrees are what operate His kingdom. With all the denominations we have preaching every doctrine under the sun, you are lead to believe that he sanctions every one of them however; this can not be any farther from the truth. God honors what His faith dictates in His word with ultimate authority and nothing else. So we see that asking and seeking work hand in hand together as we go on a quest to discover this new life we received when we became God's children.

Jesus told Nicodemus in John chapter three that to go to heaven and participate in the kingdom they must first see it and then enter it. To see the kingdom a person must be born again with a second birth other then their physical birth by God's Righteous Spirit. He says that this initial miraculous encounter with God; illuminated our understanding that there is a spiritual world that we could not experience until we made Jesus our Savior and we become born again through God's sperm. This is what made us see and taste God's kingdom for the first time. Let me say before I go on that unless a person has been born again and had this experience with a witness of it in their being; I would question that God is their Heavenly Father. Only Jesus is the way, the truth and there is no other way of obtaining eternal life.

People have said to me, "that doesn't sound fare. What about all the other people on the earth, what happens to them? A loving God would not send any one to hell." Now here we have our King's decrees coming into conflict with our own reasoning. What does God's word have to say about this?

Jesus in John 3:16-21 said. "For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that who ever puts their total trust in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it; but through Him it would become saved. Who ever believes on Him is not condemned: but he that doesn't believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the only begotten Son of God. Now this is the condemnation, light has come into the world and men have loved darkness rather then coming into the light; because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil, hates and does not want to come into the light because his deeds will be reproved. However, he that seeks truth wants to come into the light that His deeds may be clearly seen by him and that they are being orchestrated by God."

When we are going through this process of asking, seeking and knocking; we must become transparent and unafraid to come to God with openness and with a wanting to walk in God's deepest light. Man kind born again or not can not handle the brilliancy of God's light all at once because it would kill them. People who are not born again are not God's children in the first place and as a born again believer being one of God's children it is as we have our childish ways exposed by the Holy Ghost in our Christian walk that delivers us from any stinking thinking and as we become more Christ like; we can become more exposed to the light of God with out being blinded to receiving the truth of the God News Gospel. (Which is God's unmerited favor.)

This word evil that this verse describes is a malevolent spirit and stronghold in people's lives and takes on different forms and degrees of harm that wants to inflict pain and death on people, and its ultimate goal is that people end up going to hell for eternity. It is my contention that a person has to be possessed or oppressed and imprisoned by the devil in some way to not want to walk and experience the love of the Lord at all times. When Jesus prayed the Our Father in the New Testament; He reminded them when they asked Him how to pray that; they ask God to deliver them from all evil. That means that even after we become born again and our initial experience in Christ that; this evil spiritual entity is still going to harass us and we must know how to be constantly be delivered from darkness and continue to pursue the light of God's counsel.

I hope you who are reading this are participating and recognizing that what we are talking about has nothing to do with our good works, making sure we go to church, pay our tithes or anything else that we are doing to seek God's or peoples approval to maintain some semblance of Christian living. God please deliver us from all that and focus on what being a Christian is all about.

I have no problem with all that other stuff however; our spiritual walk is another thing all together and it is a relationship with power in the Holy Ghost and a walk in the spirit world of God and the devil. There are different rules for this walk and we must not be ignorant of the consequences of our choices. You can not act on the scripture that tells us to choose this day who we will serve; the Lord or the devil if; you do not really know what choices you have because; you are ignorant of God's decrees for your life.

Now Jesus went on to tell Nicodemus that after we have this born again experience; we then have to enter the kingdom of God. Enter is a verb and an action word of participation. That is why a born again child of God must be going through this process of asking, seeking and knocking because; it is the process of discovery and learning how to actively take part in moving in God‘s kingdom. We must be functioning in God's Righteous Spirit if we have a passion to live the abundant life as God intended. Righteousness is not us thinking in right and wrong decision making with a judgmental attitude. Only God is to be the true judge of our thoughts and actions.

If we look at the word Righteous in the Greek Concordance it means that, God looks at His children the same way He looks at His only begotten Son Jesus, that being; He sees us as blameless, free from evil and set apart unto Him as His children. Now this causes our mind to have a dilemma. How are we to believe this when we feel that we are not complete yet and have failure and faults to deal with in our lives? To the natural mind this sounds like a contradiction. Here again we have to make a choice to believe God or lean towards our own understanding. Remember this is a government ruled by God not a democratic system of government based on the principle of majority decision-making.

This has and will always be the conflict in our seeking after God as the Holy Ghost gets all the darkness out of our thinking and shows us how to walk in God's constant counsel of His wisdom and light. The majority of the born again church still teaching that we are still sinners and not defining our sainthood in Christ has no clue as to how God as a loving parent sees and accepts His children. Does an infant or a baby who can't walk properly on their two feet or who are still messing their diaper or is still having a problem eating with utensils being condemned and judged by its parents as a sinner who is incomplete and intentionally trying to walk in disobedience. Loving parents do not condemn their children, but with loving care and patience they continue to nurture and strengthen their children so that they can be the best they can be functioning in the gifts and purposes ordained by God in their lives.

How we view ourselves whether to be a sinner or saint will determine the quality of life we can have with God. Scripture tells us that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. A sinner from a non-saved view is a person who still has a sin-based nature, is a slave to their sins, and is headed for an eternity in hell. From a born again view, these are people erring, missing the mark, losing their allotment and not sharing in a prize. These are two totally opposite views. Now when we talk about being a sinner the first thought that crosses our mind is, we have done something wrong and God is displeased with us. However, when we govern our lives by this concept or special rules by our own evaluations of ourselves, as far as God is concerned this does not justify us as being pure in His sight.

We are pure in His sight only because; Jesus through the Holy Ghost lives in us and when God the Father sees us, He sees His first born Son JESUS. This is not a statement by a person justifying his behavior but; the word of God as God sees things. The free will that God gave us gives us the ability and right to believe this or not to believe what I have written here. Personally I have been and am constantly being encouraged by the Holy Ghost daily to believe God's press reports about me then to be brainwashed by the devil and other people who really don't know God very well and them trying to make me believe their press reports about me. The God who I follow does not put demands on me but; gives me the freedom to choose to live in love or not. He is a loving parent that has persuaded me since I have tasted His goodness to carefully walk in fear and trembling in His protected shadow with a great need with in me to not miss one word of warning or appreciation from His lips.

HEAR ME ON THIS; if you are a child of God; He wants with passion as a jealous lover to do the same for you.

This is what we come to recognize as we go through our seeking after him and what strengthens our resolve and holding power of love; that secures our souls from fear and dread.

The reason we have to be alert and walk carefully in our seeking of God's counsel is because; there is a spirit of beguilement that Satan uses on God's kids that they have a hard time recognizing. This causes them to come to God as a second rate citizen grabbling before Him with a woe is me attitude. What we actually do is act like we have to do penance for our behavioral childish actions begging God to have mercy on us. Rather then approaching his throne with praise and a thankful heart; we try to clean ourselves up because we have been mesmerized by the devil's devices to believe we have to earn His favor. This type of thinking is being preached in the majority of the born again churches of today. We will now go on to the meaning of knocking.

Continued in part 4