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The Winning Formula to Answered Prayer
The word A.S.K. is actually an acronym that means:
A - ASK
S - SEEK
K - Knock
It is the winning formula in prayer according to the Greatest Teacher of all, the Lord Jesus Christ.
All praise and honor and glory belong to Him and Him alone.
Matthew 7:
Big Idea: God has given us an invitation we cannot refuse to pray prayers that lead to answers.
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Introduction:
Introduction:
One day, to try to find a solution to the drought, the village priest called the villagers to gather at the village square to pray together for rain.
He told them to bring along a token of their faith, so the prayer would be done in sincere faith.
And so, the villagers gathered at the square bringing with them tokens of their faith.
Some brought the Holy Bible while others carried small crosses as tokens of faith.
They all prayed aloud with great faith and hope.
These verses on prayer seem to be an interruption, but they’re not.
The Lord wants us to exercise our right to prayer to live the Christian life.
So we can exercise discernment even in our relationships with others.
Sure enough, within a few moments it began to rain.
The whole crowd was overjoyed and danced happily.
The priest noticed that among the joyous crowd was a nine-year-old boy, clutching an umbrella as a token of faith.
The priest admired this little boy, who had brought an umbrella in total faith that the God would surely hear his prayers and send rain.
Are you going through a drought in your life and you’ve been praying for rain and it has never happened?
It’s time to bring your umbrella!
This passage stands out above the rest, still it talks of God’s faithfulness in our prayers.
I.
The Invitation to Prayer (v.
7)
God has given an open invitation to prayer.
Our great God is extending this privilege to us.
You need something from God? “Ask”, “Seek”, “Knock”.
A. Ask.
Demands Humility.
Sometimes the reason why we do not get what we pray for is we do not ask.
αιτεω = to ask for, with a claim on receipt of an answer, ask, ask for, even to
demand.
This is the kind of asking that a child does to a parent.
There is something in a parent that likes it when our kids ask for something instead of just seizing what they want by themselves.
We love it when our kids ask, “Dad, I like this new toy.
Can I have it?”
There is a joy for a parent to :
see that their children exercise their privileges as sons and daughters when they ask.
see the opportunity to provide and give happiness to their children.
It brings joy to a heart of a parent when their children ask.
Then we look at the request itself and a lot of times as parents we decide what our children ask for is something we can afford or it is something that is not good for our child at that moment.
So what do we do, we give the answer “no”.
There is power in saying “NO” to the requests of our children.
They may insist at the start, but if we remain firm in the answer of NO, eventually our kids will learn to stop asking any further.
By saying no, we teach our kids about our mind and our heart.
They will learn more about us, and that when they ask for something that is aligned to what their parents want for them, eventually they will receive.
Same is true with our relationship to God.
We learn more of Him when we ask.
We don’t perceive His mind and His heart when we never ask.
We have not because we ask not.
Jesus is inviting us to simply ASK.
But ASK with the right motives.
This is why it is important to seek the will of God when we pray.
B. Seek.
One of the most frustrating quests in life is finding the will of God.
How we wish the will of God is very obvious to us.
That is why Jesus invites us to “seek”.
In He told his disciples to seek first the Kingdom of God.
He did not say how and where to find the Kingdom of God.
He just invites us to “seek”.
Are you making a big decision soon and there is no clarity on it yet?
DO we seek God’s will or we decide to follow our heart?
Is there a problem where you do not know the solution.
Do we seek God’s solution to the problem or do we just tackle the problem our way?
Is there a lingering question in your heart asking God: Lord, why did you allow that to happen in my life?
I would submit to you this morning that you seek God first.
There is nothing more needful than seeking God’s will than seeking God Himself.
Finding something that is not readily obvious.
Sometimes it is an answer that we do not have.
Would we look for the solution?
Or look for the One WHo offers all the solutions in your life.
We come up with our own solution.
Seek the Lord first, and you will find Him.
Jeremiah 29:1
C. Knock.
Knocking here denotes a door that is closed.
Is there a door in your life that you’ve been asking the Lord to open?
Oh yes pastor!
Actually I have been banging on that door and it won’t open.
This command to knock is in present tense imperative, and therefore stress continued, persistent action.
Keep knocking,
Keep knocking,
This is different from what I preached last Sunday about casting your cares to God.
When you cast that care or need to God, don’t go back to it anymore trust God.
Some people cast like they are fishing, they cast their cares to God and then, they reel it back in.
Leave your care in the hand of God.
However, a door talks about an opportunity in your life that are presently closed.
But the good news is that God has the power to open that door.
It takes boldness and persistence.
Our Persistence.
The problem is there is a door that God has prepared before you to enter in.
It is presently closed.
Jesus said keep knocking, But some of us get impatient, either we stop knocking, or we find other doors that we can easily open.
It is better to enter through the narrow door that God himself opened that leads to Him, than entering through a big door that I am able to open but leads away from Him.
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