ASK, SEEK, and KNOCK

Ask, Seek, and Knock!
Matt 7:7-12

7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
KJV


To this little old baby chick, our God has given us such a deal! He doesn't instruct us to go beg, borrow, or work our way into His blessings. He instructs us to "just ask". And then when we actually do ask Him for something, I don't care what it is. If we have asked, then we must also Believe that He is thereby in the process of making delivery on your personal request to the King of Glory. Like the Jews say in New York, "Such a Deal"! Doesnt this remark just blow your mind? What are ya going to do about it now? It also suggests that if you ask with a "double mind", you are screwed.
Don't think you will get anything from God if you go around asking and doubting. You got what ya believed for, Nothing. I say nothing because you didn't believe He was going to give "it" to you anyway.

You know who told you that you wouldn't get it anyway? It was the friggin devil that lives inside your head. He carries a lot of titles but I think the most appropriate one is your "Ego". Hello, Mr, Antichrist, residing between your stupid ears. He is the monster that is separating you from every blessing of God. He is a friggin liar! He's a deceiver!. He poses as YOU, and everything he speaks is a lie to deceive you into believing that God is illusory, elusive, finicky, petty, and mostly a figment of everyone's imagination. See why Ego is your sworn enemy? He must die for Christ to reign. Him no like dat idea. He thinks its a really bad idea. After all, he wants all of the glory, honor, power, and riches that he can possibly amass. That is his lying illusion. Mr Ego, is destined for death, and he wants no part of that at all. He will give all that he possesses to save his life.

Jesus said, "it ain't going to be that way dude" (my loose paraphrasing). He that would follow after me must "deny himself", pick up his cross, and follow Me." That means that we are not to love our lives even unto death. Rather, we are to love God with ALL of our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourself, right now. A lot easier said then done. It sounds lonely, painful, unprofitable, and downright inconvenient. Actually, it is that way, so then, why follow Christ?

He is the only way into God and the kingdom of heaven, that's why. All of the present suffering means nothing in light of His glory and presence. He is what makes the sacrifice worth it. He has given us eternal life in the NOW. His indwelling Presence transcends every obstacle of Life. He is Life Itself, and those
who put their Trust, life, confidence in Him, and actually Believe what He said, will
experience the Truth of His Life within, He shows Himself through healing, delivering, prospering, rejoicing, and makind Happy His chosen ones. He is the
one True God, and there is no other God beside Him.

You can believe God for anything you desire. Me? I continually bug Him for things
that are absolutely impossible. That way, He gets all of the glory, for no man can
do the things I ask Him for. What kinds of things? Well, how about giving folks new
teeth? I have actually seen this happen. It was a God thingee. You should have been there and seen the smiles and everyone looking into each others mouth. I am
sure Jesus must have just stood there laughing at the joy He brought. God is mighty
partial to His kids, and withholds nothing from them.

Impossible things I like to see God do: dissolve tumors, rid them of cancers, give new kidneys, liver, and lungs. Give new arteries, heart, rid people of pain, provide
supernatural finances. I always ask that He meet others financial needs from
unexpected sources. That way they know it was God Himself who made the way.
I am also bugging Him about "teleportation" either in body or out, makes no
difference. Paul did it, and so did Phillip, and Jesus! Appearing and disappearing
on people has got to be a real head trip! How about flying? Yup, I want to be able
to fly. Why not? With God, all things are possible. How about water walking or
floating in the air. If Chris Angel can do it, I should be able to also through the power of the Holy Spirit. Of course, all of this is "as the Spirit wills". If He says no, then it is truly no. That is not to say, maybe later....

To me, all things are possible through Christ Jesus. He has the ability to recreate or create anew. It is totally within His realm and power to create anything out of nothing. This is SOME Kinda Wonderful God. I am sooooooo glad, grateful, happy, blessed, excited, and joyful that of all the losers in the world He chose to give eternal life to, I was one! How about you?

Let me conclude by saying that you, personally, can have anything you want from
God, if you keep bugging Him long and loud enough, and believe He will, He will!
He says so, and He is no liar like you or me........

Bless you
Patrick

NT:154
aiteo (ahee-teh'-o); of uncertain derivation; to ask (in genitive case):
KJV - ask, beg, call for, crave, desire, require. Compare NT:4441.
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)


didomi (did'-o-mee); a prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an altern. in most of the tenses); to give (used in a very wide application, properly, or by implication, literally or figuratively; greatly modified by the connection):

NT:2212
zeteo (dzay-teh'-o); of uncertain affinity; to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life):

KJV - be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means). Compare NT:4441.
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)


NT:154
aiteo (ahee-teh'-o); of uncertain derivation; to ask (in genitive case):

KJV - ask, beg, call for, crave, desire, require. Compare NT:4441.
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)


NT:4441
punthanomai (poon-than'-om-ahee); middle voice prolonged from a primary putho (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); to question, i.e. ascertain by inquiry (as a matter of information merely; and thus differing from NT:2065, which properly means a request as a favor; and from NT:154, which is strictly a demand for something due; as well as from NT:2212, which implies a search for something hidden; and from NT:1189, which involves the idea of urgent need); by implication, to learn (by casual intelligence):

KJV - ask, demand, enquire, understand.