Ask – receive
Seek – find
Knock - opened
Matt 7:7-11 “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…
Matt 7:7-11 …seeketh findeth; and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?...
Matt 7:7-11 …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…
Matt 7:7-11 …your Father which is in heaven give
good things to them that ask him?”
Ask – receive
This is “continuous action” Literally -
“keep on asking,” and it will be given to you.
Matt 7:11 “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?”
Prayer
Luke 11:5-8 “And he said unto them, Which of you shall
have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say
unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; For a friend…
Luke 11:5-8 …of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before
him? And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me
not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me…
Luke 11:5-8 …in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. I say unto
you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his
importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth”
Luke 18:12-14 “Two men went up into the temple to
pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The
Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I
thank thee, that I am not…
Luke 18:12-14 …as other men are, extortioners,
unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all
that I possess. And the publican, standing afar…
Luke 18:12-14 …off, would not lift up so much as his
eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down
to his house justified…
Luke 18:12-14 …rather than the other: for every one that
exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that
humbleth himself shall be exalted.”
Many people give up too soon in
their Bible studies
Psa 1:1-3 “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the
counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But…
Psa 1:1-3 …his delight is in the law of the LORD; and
in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall
be like a tree planted by the rivers of water…
Psa 1:1-3 …that bringeth forth his fruit in his
season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever
he doeth shall prosper”
Psa 119:97-104 “MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my
meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments
hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are
ever with me…
Psa 119:97-104 …I have more understanding than all my
teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I
understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained…
Psa 119:97-104 …my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have not
departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my
taste! yea, sweeter than…
Psa 119:97-104 …honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore
I hate every false way.”
John 15:7 “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what
ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”
1 John 5:14-15 “And this is the confidence that we have in him,
that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear
us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions
that we desired of him.”
PERSEVERANCE
Seek – find
This is “continuous action” Literally -
“keep on seeking,” and you will find
Jude 1:21 “Keep yourselves in the love of
God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life”
Galatians 1:10 “For do I now persuade men, or
God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the
servant of Christ”
Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please
him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him”
John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is
just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me”
PERSEVERANCE
Knock - opened
This is “continuous action” Literally -
“keep on knocking,” and it will be opened
to you
Rev 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any
man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with
him, and he with me”
Luke 13:23-25 “Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said
unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in,
and shall not be able…
Luke 13:23-25 …When once the master of the house is
risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the
door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall…
Luke 13:23-25 …answer and say unto you, I know you not
whence ye are”
Col 4:2-4 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with
thanksgiving; Withal praying also for us, that God would
open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the…
Col 4:2-4 …mystery of Christ, for which I am also in
bonds: That I may make it manifest, as I ought to
speak.”
John 10:1-2 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is
the shepherd of the sheep.”
John 10:7-9 “Then said Jesus unto them again,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but
the sheep did not hear them…
John 10:7-9 …I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture”
Knocking on the right door!
PERSEVERANCE
Keep on asking
Keep on seeking
Keep on knocking
PERSEVERANCE
Rom 10:17 “So then faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the word
of God”
Acts 3:19 “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted
out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord”
Phil 2:11 “And that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”
Gal 3:27 “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ”
Hear Believe Repent Confess Baptized
Received – Found – OpenedASK
SEEK
FIND