ACE #436 ASK

Many of us have a habit of petitioning God, but not faithfully moving so He can bless. Our faith is weakened by our ASK. We are asking God, but not believing God to do it. Better yet, we ask, but we don’t finish the process for God to do it. You see, to ask God for something means you have to be willing to follow through on your request and expect God to move, but not you. We all know faith is action. When functioning in true faith, seeing is not believing. Believing is knowing the actions and the word of God. Jesus said, “…for everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”

Friends, God, through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, Jesus, has supplied every need we will ever have when it is about Him. All we have to do ask. But, in asking, we have to make sure we are doing our part. Asking is followed with action…just asking is not enough.

If you are asking the Lord for better, you have to believe that you will receive better. Not only do ask for better, you have to seek better for yourself. I am convinced that some of us are not getting better because we don’t know where better is coming from. Better is coming in Jesus. Seek out the things that move you from yourself to realizing that greater is He who is in you than you who in this miserable world. Then, knock on doors that encourage your request. Stop trying to open doors in your own strength. Let Christ and it will be opened unto you. All you have to do is, Ask! Seek! Knock!

Matthew 7:7-11

⁷ “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

⁹ “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹¹ 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 good gifts to those who ask him!