The promise that comes with asking, searching, and knocking
Luke 11:9 So, I say to you, Ask and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
These are bold words that Jesus makes to those that hear them. It’s the same kind of boldness that speaks to Jacob in Gen. 28 with a promise to fulfill the promise made to Abraham long ago. So often we spend time asking questions of why God isn’t doing something; we find ways to complain about our lives and of our frustration with God. I wonder what would happen if we put as much time into asking, searching, and knocking as we did in complaining and doubting. My hunch is “it would be given, we would find, and the door would be opened.”
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courage you today to spend time praying and in your prayers ask with passion the desires of your heart; search with passion what you are looking for, and knock with passion on the doors that are around you. The God that I serve will answer you!
Jesus, thank you for not abandoning me and forgive me for those times that I spend stewing in my own worry instead of seeking your face. I pray today that as I ask, search, and knock that you would be faithful to your promise and meet me at the bethel of my life that I would experience the same promise of Jacob in my life. Amen.
peace,
Chad
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Chad,
Thanks for all the good scriptures and your thoughts on them. The book list is good also.
John