6/29/19
This Month's Topic: "More To Asking Than Just Asking"
seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matt 7:7 NIV
Okay, so, we know how to ask; even toddlers with no real words to express themselves yet, know how to ask. It comes across as a "cute" way of begging with the hand motions and all, but still they are asking for some of what you have in the only way that they know how.
Truthfully though, as adults a lot of our asking looks to God like begging after awhile, but still ...
Asking is just the first instruction given in the preparation stages of receiving.
The bible says: ASK, SEEK, KNOCK.
The three instructions given in
Matt 7:7 NIV
While we may do a "fair enough" job of asking. God says, Not many know what it means to really seek.
Seek-to go after God with all your heart, and soul.
But if from there, you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut 4:29 NIV
You see, Beloved, seeking is worship. You are seeking God when you worship...Because when you worship, you are worshiping him simply for who HE IS. When you worship, you show God you want Him and not just material stuff.
Think about it in the natural....You know how you feel, when you finally run across someone that YOU KNOW, this person has no hidden agenda, but only wants you for you. Think about the value it adds to that friendship, to that relationship.
Not that you didn't love them before, but knowing that their motives are pure opens your heart towards them a little more. God is the same way. He loves us regardless, but worship (pure worship) opens his heart towards us a little more. It's called favor....God favors you when your worship is pure and carries no price tag.
The bible says this about Worship:
"It's who you are and the way you live that counts before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in pursuit of truth. That's the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves
before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself--- Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration. "
John 4:23-24 MSG (Message bible)
Finally, Knock which is last instruction given in preparation for receiving.
But what does it mean to knock?
Knocking is always associated with a sound. You can't knock without making sound.
Therefore praise is knocking, knocking is praise.
Praise is different from worship because praise is your opportunity to make some noise and thank God for the things he has done or is doing in your life.
Psalm 22:3 AMPC The Lord inhabits the praises of his people.
Inhabits the praises of his people....IN habits- it gets inside him, he takes it in. Praise gets God's attentioon.
The bible says:
7 When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile.
Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down.
8 In the middle of the night something startled the man; he tuned ----and there was a woman lying at his feet! Ruth 3:8 NIV
In other words: Ruth went in to Boaz and startle him, she got his attention.
BELOVED, You must go in, in prayer until you startle Him, until you get God 's attention.
If Boaz (after getting his attention) could redeem Ruth and give her everything she wanted and needed....How much more can God provide for us.
Therefore, Seriously go in UNTIL you know, he has inhabited your praise, he has received your worship.
How will you know? Spiritually: You will just have a peace come up in your spirit.
Some of you, you will feel as though a burden has lifted.
Naturally though, you will know when
he begins to do what you have asked of him.
Click the link below and listen to this example of going in, in Prayer- asking, seeking, knocking.
Until Next Month.
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LPS~ Love, Prophetess Stacy
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