“So I say to you: 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.” (Luke 11:9-10)
This passage is all about asking, seeking and knocking, and God’s response which is, “He shall” answer to the affirmative. In fact, it is a simple acrostics formula around the three-letter word ASK:
A – ask “and it shall be given”
S – seek “and you shall find”
K – knock “and it it shall be opened”
Yes! This means you!
Notice that this promise is for “everyone,” and that certainly includes you! And understand that the primary reason believers fail to receive from God is simply this, they fail to ASK!
Therefore…
“You do not have because you do not ask God.” (James 4:2b)
So ASK!
Quotes:
“No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.” - Martin Luther
“Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.” - Franklin Graham