Asking and Receiving
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What do you receive from God? What are you asking from God?
Prayer is asking God for what we need and hope to receive. Prayer is seeking God and finding him. Prayer is knocking on doors that we hope will be opened to us.
In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus said this about prayer, “For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:8, ESV).
Prayer is about asking and receiving. Prayer is about asking, seeking, and knocking so that God will respond and we can experience intimate relationship and provision in our lives.
May we be people of prayer as we ask, seek, and knock and experience intimate relationship with God as he provides for us.
A Prayer of St. John Chrysostom: “Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time, with one accord to make our common supplications to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will grant their requests: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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