LUKE 11:9\u201313<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cFor everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and In him who knocks, the door will be opened\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
(Luke 11:10)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Jesus continues His teaching on prayer by saying, \u201cAsk and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you\u201d (Luke 11:9). Here is one of our Lord\u2019s most encouraging statements inviting His people to pray. Consider the riches we have lost from our Father\u2019s house because we have simply failed to ask for them.<\/p>\n
Often when we pray, our prayers are so nebulous that we can never see any kind of answer. \u201cDear God, bless everybody in the world. Amen.\u201d \u201cDear God, make everything turn out all right. Amen.\u201d Those kinds of amorphous prayers hardly encourage us to come back for more. It is when we pray specifically and see concrete answers that we are moved to ask for more of God\u2019s blessings.<\/p>\n
A word of caution about verse 10: \u201cEveryone who asks receives.\u201d We have to qualify this statement with all the other statements on prayer in the Bible. Limited to believers, we are to pray according to God\u2019s Word, not asking for things the Bible indicates are improper.<\/p>\n
Jesus goes on to encourage prayer with a threefold analogy in verses 11 and 12: \u201cWhich of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?\u201d Well, obviously no father would be so cruel as to put poison into the hands of his child. Then Jesus says, \u201cIf 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!\u201d (v. 13). We are evil, says Jesus, yet we know how to give gifts. How much more does God know how to give to His children.<\/p>\n
Have you ever asked God for a greater measure of the Holy Spirit? We have asked Him for fish and eggs, but we are invited to ask for the Spirit, the gift of God Himself.<\/p>\n
CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n
Job 15\u201317<\/p>\n
Acts 9<\/p>\n
WEEKEND<\/b><\/p>\n
Job 18\u201322<\/p>\n
Acts 10:1\u201323<\/p>\n
God\u2019s ultimate gift to us is Himself. He gave us Jesus, and Jesus gives us the Father. Now Jesus and the Father invite us to ask for the Holy Spirit also, whom they send to guide, guard, and bless the church. All believers receive the Spirit, but we can receive fresh visits from God. Ask God to give you a greater fellowship with Him today.<\/p>\n
For further study: Nehemiah 1:1\u201311; tape #B571NT.50\/51<\/i><\/p>\n
WEEKEND<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LUKE 11:9\u201313 \u201cFor everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and In him who knocks, the door will be opened\u201d (Luke 11:10). Jesus continues His teaching on prayer by saying, \u201cAsk and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you\u201d (Luke 11:9). … Continue reading “ASK AND YOU WILL RECEIVE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}