Are You Praying?

Good Morning!! Ask. Seek. Knock. Each of these verbs is dynamic, energetic. True prayer is not a lethargic experience; it is a vigorous participation in the plan of God. It is the soul's fervent endeavor toward the kingdom of God. But each verb also connotes something else: neediness. One does not ask, if one does not need. One does not seek, if one has already found. One does not knock, if the door is standing open. Prayer is recognition that you need God. The reason, therefore, that we have not prayed as we should is because; we don't know how to pray, and have no read Matthew 6:9-13,...or we are either too spiritually lazy to labor in prayer,...or we are too content to feel our need of God.

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.—Matthew 7:7-8 (NIV)

Whatever your reason for not praying until now,...the good news is this; for those who awaken to their desperate condition, and follow hard after God, God has promised universal acceptance and success. Everyone who asks will receive! But perhaps you have not received, yet. Perhaps you have not found, yet. Perhaps you still stand at the closed door with bloody knuckles and a growing doubt in your mind. Why hasn't God answered? Why won't He turn the lock and swing open the door?...because our time, is not God's time,...in due time all the Father has promised will come to pass.

Do not give up, beloved. God always gives to everyone who asks,...He has given us His word. He will either give us what we have been begging for,...or He will give something He knows to be better. 

 Father God, we thank You, in advance, for the fore filling of Your promises. Amen.

 "To walk with God,...our focus needs to be on God."