Encouraging Us To Pray

Ask, and It Will Be Given (Matt 7:7-11)
“ Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

These are encouraging words for us this morning regarding prayer...

We are to...
1. Ask God for what we need
2. Seek what we need from God
3. Knock on the doors of heaven persistently for our needs
4. Ask specifically from God for our needs (i.e. bread, or fish)
5. Ask for things that are good according to what God deems as good (this would require us to study our Bibles to determine what is good and what is bad)
6. Seek them from God as your Father who is in heaven.

God says He will...
1. He will give to us what we ask for
2. He will enable us to find what we are seeking
3. He will open the doors of heaven
4. He will give to us what we specifically ask for
5. He will give good gifts to us (way better then we could give a good gift)
6. Presumably treat us as His children