Prepare and Wait
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8, ESV
I asked the Holy Spirit for help with my writings and the cookie business that he gave me. I had some specific things that I wanted to happen. I had written them down in my on my vision board. I prayed over the vision and I trusted God for those things to manifest. We are not halfway through the year and many of those things I asked God for have come to pass.
However, they have come completely differently than what I expected. They have come with a lot of sacrifice and hard work. I used to read the passage above and the understanding that I thought I had was way off. As I read that passage over again today, in this season I realize that my asking has been very different. My asking God has been with a consistent prayer time with him. My knocking has been sitting and listening to what He tells me to do. And my seeking has been following the instructions he has given me. In other words doing the work!
If you are asking God for something be prepared to work, to wait and to go through a journey with him. Abraham wanted a son, so he asked God and he kept on asking. God told Abraham he would give him a son and he would be the father of many nations. But Abraham had to listen and follow the instructions God gave him before he received his son Isaac. Abraham worked with and waited on God for twenty-five years before God granted him the promised son.
The asking, the seeking and the knocking are all about how we spend time getting to know God. I believe our asking is always from God to grow us into a new level of relationship with him. Scripture says, that if we delight ourselves in the Lord, he will give us the desires of our heart. I believe as we give over to God, he gives us his desires which are to draw us into a deeper relationship with him. Because what parent does not want a closer relationship with their own children? I believe that every move is designed for us to know our father Jehovah more and to spend that ordained time with him that he had designed for us before the beginning of time. To God be the glory! Amen
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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