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: “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: …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: …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: …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”

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