- #ASK AND IT IS GIVEN SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND KNOCK HOW TO#
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I think we speak, I speak to much of my shame that I don't think I pray as I should. No, but it is trying to restore the pre-eminence of the importance of praying. Once again, I want to remind you it is not trying to undermine the importance of preaching, declaring the Gospel. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing.
#ASK AND IT IS GIVEN SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND KNOCK HOW TO#
To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. It was also Andrew Murray, another pastor, teacher, theologian of times past who says, "Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He's not undermining the importance of preaching but he's elevating the importance of praying. He's a man God used in times past, in great ways, but he himself would say I think it's far more important for one man to learn what it means to pray than for ten men to learn what it means to preach. It was Spurgeon who said, "I'd rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach." That's quite a statement, especially from what we will call the prince of preachers. It's a lot of these things, but at the very same time prayer is very important and I think we should be reminded of that.
So often we think the Christian life is about reading the Bible, it's about serving the community, sharing the Gospel. I suppose this reminds us of the importance and the necessity for prayer. It was taught first in Matthew 6 and now in Matthew 7, Jesus repeats a teaching on prayer. I hasten to remind you, this is the second time in the Sermon on the Mount, prayer is being taught by Jesus. He says, "Ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." Nevertheless, Jesus here is teaching us about prayer. Now, not all prayers are answered that way and certainly not all kinds of prayer like that are what we are talking about. Well, we are talking today about prayers and answered prayers. I was just in prison for car theft and I was just released this morning." The lady with her eyes wide open, looked up to heaven and said, "Lord, you're so good.
You're such a good man." The big burly man said, "I'm not a good man. The lady was ecstatic, she was so happy, so excited she gave him a hug and said, "Thank you, thank you.
After a minute of fiddling or so, click, the door swung wide open. Sir, do you by any chance happen to be able to open car doors?" The big man says, "Of course I can" and, and he reached within his pocket, took something out. She looked at, she looked at him and said, "Wow, this is quite a big guy! But I prayed so I ask, I will ask him.
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He is full of tattoos, wears a white singlet, glasses, sun glasses, with a leather pants and leather boots. I pray this in Jesus Name, Amen."Īnd just as she opened her eyes, she saw a big, burly, strong man standing beside her. Could you please open the door for me, send someone to help open the door for me. And so she closed her eyes, bowed her head and said, "Lord, I'm really desperate. She didn't know what to do until she remembered, her pastor had taught them about prayer. And she was getting desperate because her son was sick at home and she needed to go home immediately. She left the key in the car and in those days you can lock your car with your keys inside. It says, Ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find knock and it will be opened to you (Matt 7:7).Ī story is told of a lady who was locked outside her car. This is part of what we would call the King's Speech, the Sermon on the Mount and we read a very familiar verse in the Bible. Today we come to Matthew chapter 7 and verses 7 to 12. We, as a church, have been going through the book of Matthew and we have been looking actually for the past few months at the sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapter 5 to Matthew chapter 7.
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