"LUKE 11:9-13 REFLECTION" Kids Ministry Coffee Break 54: Asking, Seeking, and Knocking are crucial according to Jesus. Praying for the Holy Spirit to help us live will always be answered by God.
Ask, Seek, and Knock
These are all Jewish words for prayer.
This whole passage is about prayer.
Prayer is a tricky thing.
We sometimes pray for our wishlist
Other times we pray for others
Sometimes ourselves
I hope you have times in prayer where you just sit and listen too.
This passage comes right after Luke’s offering of The Lord’s Prayer
Jesus teaches the disciples to pray…and then tells them to pray.
Because God, like any good parent, wants to give good things to us as children.
But there is something important about us doing our part to ask, seek, and knock.
We could surmise that we won’t receive, find, or have the door opened unless we first ask, seek, and knock.
But we can trust that when we do, God will give us good things.
One quick note: it’s common belief that the stone and bread mentioned here would have looked very similar. Also, the scorpion and egg would have looked similar. That sounds weird, but that’s what we find when we use trusted resources to help us understand this passage in its original setting and context.
The idea is that God won’t fool you.
If you ask for the Holy Spirit to work in you to make the Lord’s Prayer a reality for you—trusting in God, committing to living the Kingdom life in the world around you, knowing you are forgiven just as you forgive—God will OF COURSE answer that prayer for you.
If human parents in all of our flaws know how to give good gifts to our children, how much more will God, the perfect parent, know how to give US good gifts when we ask.
When is the last time you prayed for good things—Holy things?
Have you centered yourself lately in who you are and whose you are and then asked for guidance to live into that foundational reality as a child of God?
If not…do that right now.
Ask, seek, and knock…
and allow God to bless you with a good response.
Grace and Peace to you in the name of Jesus Christ
Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).
https://sundayschool.works/sunday-school-lessons/
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By Rev. Joseph Sanford"LUKE 11:9-13 REFLECTION" Kids Ministry Coffee Break 54: Asking, Seeking, and Knocking are crucial according to Jesus. Praying for the Holy Spirit to help us live will always be answered by God.
Ask, Seek, and Knock
These are all Jewish words for prayer.
This whole passage is about prayer.
Prayer is a tricky thing.
We sometimes pray for our wishlist
Other times we pray for others
Sometimes ourselves
I hope you have times in prayer where you just sit and listen too.
This passage comes right after Luke’s offering of The Lord’s Prayer
Jesus teaches the disciples to pray…and then tells them to pray.
Because God, like any good parent, wants to give good things to us as children.
But there is something important about us doing our part to ask, seek, and knock.
We could surmise that we won’t receive, find, or have the door opened unless we first ask, seek, and knock.
But we can trust that when we do, God will give us good things.
One quick note: it’s common belief that the stone and bread mentioned here would have looked very similar. Also, the scorpion and egg would have looked similar. That sounds weird, but that’s what we find when we use trusted resources to help us understand this passage in its original setting and context.
The idea is that God won’t fool you.
If you ask for the Holy Spirit to work in you to make the Lord’s Prayer a reality for you—trusting in God, committing to living the Kingdom life in the world around you, knowing you are forgiven just as you forgive—God will OF COURSE answer that prayer for you.
If human parents in all of our flaws know how to give good gifts to our children, how much more will God, the perfect parent, know how to give US good gifts when we ask.
When is the last time you prayed for good things—Holy things?
Have you centered yourself lately in who you are and whose you are and then asked for guidance to live into that foundational reality as a child of God?
If not…do that right now.
Ask, seek, and knock…
and allow God to bless you with a good response.
Grace and Peace to you in the name of Jesus Christ
Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).
https://sundayschool.works/sunday-school-lessons/