Sunday Sermonettes #058?
A child can ask, seek, and knock. So can you. These three words can put life back into your prayers again. Before you give up praying altogether, and before you give up in discouragement, why not try ask, seek, and knock. These three words are the keys to find answers in prayer.
Boldness to Enter
Ask! Seek! Knock! Those three keys invite you to approach God with freedom, boldness, and confidence. Through the blood of Jesus you have 24 x 7 access to the throne of God.
Ask! Seek! Knock! These three key words increase in intensity. Ask begins the search, seek intensifies it, and knock is desperation.
Only those who have a real desire to connect with God get answers to prayer. Jesus revealed God as your heavenly Father willing to listen to you and help you. So talk to him.
Why Should You Pray
Ask! Seek! Knock! But why should you ask? God already knows what you need; doesn’t he? Then why ask? Good question. You need to ask. Only then will you know whether you really need what you ask.
Sometimes in the process of asking you realize the foolishness of what you started asking for. And that is a eureka moment! It is that moment when you come to your senses.
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God Has Bigger Plans Than Yours
Ask! Seek! Knock! God has kept hurdles that you may develop your character. He is more interested in putting boldness and courage in you by his delays and denials to your requests.
But none of that is meant to hurt you for he is your heavenly Father having your good in mind.
Ask! Seek! Knock! You need to get your eyes opened wide. God has bigger plans for you. Often you limit him by going to him with a begging bowl.
Let me ask you, do children beg at home? Those three keys, Ask! Seek! Knock! are meant for children. You are a child of God; a son or daughter of God; aren’t you? If you are not sure, ask God to make you one.
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Confidence in Prayer
Ask! Seek! Knock! Jesus always prayed with the confidence that his Father in heaven heard him. when Jesus prayed, he had an utterance of thanks on his lips and in his heart. There was no doubt; no uncertainty; and no confusion.
Why? Because he always did what pleased his Father. And always sought to do his Father’s will. So when you Ask! Seek! Knock! it will be surely answered when you earnestly wish to do what God wants you to do.
Ask! Seek! Knock! it is not about bulldozing to get answers to prayer but about persevering in prayer until God answers your prayers in his wisdom and in the time of his choosing which is always the right time.
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More in Store When You Ask, Seek, and Knock
Therefore, Ask! Seek! Knock! Those three keys can truly bring answers to prayer in your life.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” — Jesus Christ in his Sermon on the Mount 1(Matthew 7:7, 8 Bible NIV).
In a similar talk, Jesus spoke about God giving the Holy Spirt to those who ask him. No qualification is required. Just your burning desire and thirst to be filled by God himself.
“If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13 Bible NIV 1984).
Then the Spirit of God will dwell in your heart and you will become a channel of God’s blessing. So ask, seek, and knock until heaven’s glory fills your soul. Ask, seek, and knock with sincere hearts in full assurance of faith that God will answer your prayers.
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