Progressing in Prayer

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PURSUE 

What are the people of the world pursuing? 1 Tim 6:6-10

What am I pursuing? 

 But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, 

godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called 

and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

1 Timothy 6:11-12

What are we pursuing in our prayers?

Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; 

He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; 

On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight. 

Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. 

His going forth is established as the morning; 

He will come to us like the rain, 

Like the latter and former rain to the earth.

Hosea 6:1-3

Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Following is a dictionary definition of Pursue:

to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, or defeat

 So David inquired of the Lord, saying, 

"Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?" 

And He answered him, 

"Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all."

1 Samuel 30:8

 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, 

certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, 

that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, 

that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. 

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

Romans 6:5-8

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 

When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

Colossians 3:3-4