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Posted by: hischild on Aug 5, 2010

In this CAPTIONED sermon, based on Matthew 7:7-11, it's brought to our attention that God is ALWAYS "on call" for His children. He is waiting to hear from us and He answers each of our prayers. To contact Pastor Dave: www.ziontorrance.info

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Sunday, 8-01-2010
Sermon text: Matthew 7:7-11 [NIV]
... this sermon text recorded for us in Matthew's Gospel
where we read from Chapter 7, beginning with Verse 7:
"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;
HE WHO SEEKS FINDS;
AND TO HIM WHO KNOCKS, THE DOOR WILL BE OPENED.
WHICH OF YOU, IF HIS SON ASKS FOR BREAD,
WILL GIVE HIM A STONE? OR IF HE ASKS FOR A FISH,
WILL GIVE HIM A SNAKE? IF YOU,
THEN, THOUGH YOU ARE EVIL, KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS
TO YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE WILL YOUR FATHER
IN HEAVEN GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO THOSE
WHO ASK HIM!" This is the Word of our Lord.
Let us pray:
Glorious and gracious God, may the words of my mouth and
the meditation of each of our hearts be acceptable in Your
sight, our only source of hope and comfort.
Amen.
Text taken from the HOLY BIBLE:
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION 1978,
used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
Dear Followers of our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ:
I used to think that, if I asked a question,
people were going to think that I was stupid.
Or that I was foolish.
But I think a lot of people share
that common thought in their lives.
That if we don't know ...
it's better for us to just live
in our own ignorance, than to maybe ask the question
to have someone think that we don't know
the answer. So we have some convoluted thinking.
Because the only way we're going to get to
know things, is to ask
questions. To be
inquisitive of the world around us. To find out
answers that we need to know.
Asking is what we as people,
really need to know how to do
to be aware of and to take advantage of that.
I mean there are even commercials on television
that talk about how people will ask tons of questions
about insigificant things.
And then as they sit in a doctor's office,
and he says to them: Do you have any questions?
They remain silent.
Sometimes,
it is really clear in our lives
that we don't receive information,
we don't gain understanding,
because we don't ask.
And Jesus shared that
same thought with His disciples
hundreds of years ago when He said to them:
Ask! I want you to ask
your heavenly Father for the blessings that you need
for your life. Ask and God
our heavenly Father will answer you.
He will answer you because you are
His child through faith. God doesn't
answer us or hear our prayers because
we are so wonderful or we think that we have to
be in a good place in our life spiritually
in order to go to God so that He's going to hear us.
God's ears are open to us because of what
His Son did and our faith in the fact
that we believe and trust that
His Son, Jesus Christ, is our Lord
and Savior. That, we, in and of
ourselves are sinful human beings
that could do nothing
to save ourselves. We could do nothing to gain
God's worthy attention
to make us His own. We were born as children of sin.
We were born as the children of Satan. We were
the enemies of God until by the
grace of God ... and the power ...
and the love of God ...
He sent to us His Holy Spirit
and His Word, to bring us to faith.
To teach us,
of the glories of His heaven
and the extent of His love
that He would take children of sin
destined to be condemned.
Children of Satan who wanted
nothing to do with God.
But to make them His own ...
to live in His grace. To live
in His love. To live in
His Kingdom. To be with Him
not just in this earth, protected by His care,
but to be with Him in the eternal glory of heaven
serving Him and praising Him
and seeing how wonderful He is
with our very own eyes.
That our heavenly Father
has brought us to faith
and trust in what His Son does
is that tremendous gift of God.
That He loves us so much
that He not only sent His Son to be our Savior;
He sends the Holy Spirit
to call us to be His own!
To live with Him.
To interact with Him. To be able to
approach God in the holiness
and blamelessness
of Christ. To have that same access
that we have with our own earthly parents.
To run to Him when we're happy and
overjoyed with what's going on in our life.
To thank Him for those blessings that have
come to us and created in us joy and
made us happy and made us smile today.
To thank Him for the children who
bring us joy and the wonderful things
that they've done.
And just as we go to our parents when we're in need,
and we need and desire help,
we run to our heavenly Father
in the same manner. To pray for those same
children that are aggravating us to no end
because of their behavior.
To pray that God would come to them and strengthen them
and keep them in the faith.
That God would protect our loved ones
and care for us ...
because He sees us in our need. He sees us
in our daily life. He is our heavenly Father
who loves us.
And our Savior reminds us today that we're to go to Him
and ask. Yes! He knows exactly
what we need even before we could think of it!
But He encourages us
to come to him: Ask and
you will receive. Seek
and you will find. Knock
and the door will be opened to you.
That God hears us ...
It's such a wonderful blessing! But it's not some
kind of magic door that we're supposed to knock on
and that when we open it up, all of our heart's desires
are there. It is what is there
to keep us in the faith.
To strengthen us because our God
knows what's in the future for us.
Our God wants us kept in His
eternal care. And just like anyone
who is a parent understands what
their children needs ... Jesus puts it simply:
If your child comes to you and asks for bread,
who of you is gonna give him a stone?
If your child comes to you and wants a fish,
who of you is gonna give him a snake?
You know how to treat your children.
You know what your children need.
When your 12-year-old comes and says to you:
Dad, I need a car.
You're gonna say: No!
And as a parent, you understand why that is.
It's for their own safety
and the safety of others.
When your daughter runs up to you and says:
Mom, I wanna wear this 8-inch skirt today
because everybody who's 13, is now.
And you say ... Nooo!
You understand the reasoning
behind that.
Jesus taught us that
because the same thing is true about our heavenly Father.
Because sometimes
we come to God not knowing what's ahead for us.
And thinking there is one thing that's the only thing
that we need. It's the only thing that's going to make us
happy and God looks us right in the face and says:
No!
And we come back and understand that
He loves us so much He is not
going to give us something that is detrimental.
And it's going to hurt our faith.
The other thing is, sometimes He says:
Not now! Look at our example of Hannah
in the Old Testament Lesson for today.
How many times must she have gone to her heavenly Father
praying that she would have a child!
Praying that God would bless her with an heir!
But when the time was right,
God granted her that request.
But in the meantime, she kept coming
to God ... with her prayers
and with her concerns. And pouring out
her soul to Him.
We're reminded that sometimes God answers our prayers with
such a resounding YES ... it astounds us.
And then we hear those words
of Paul, in our Epistle Lesson
where he said to the Philippians: Present your requests
to God with thanksgiving.
With rejoicing. Returning to
Him for the blessings that He has poured out upon you.
The blessings that He gives to each of us
as His children as we live in this world.
We're reminded today that God is waiting
in His heaven ... to bless us!
To bless us with the things that we NEED
to keep us in the faith.
Blessings of gentleness, as Paul
encouraged the Philippians to be:
To let their gentleness be shown to all.
To let our light in Christ shine forth.
To direct others to our heavenly
Father so that they, too, may know
His blessings and His love.
Now is not the time for us to be silent.
Not in worship and not in prayer.
But today is the day ...
to ask, to seek,
to knock, to know that
God will hear us. He will answer us. He will give to us.
He will open the door to us.
And supply us with everything we need
to keep our bodies and souls
safe in Him until He calls us
to be with Him for all eternity.
So start talking. Start asking.
Go to our heavenly Father
and He will hear and
answer your requests.
Amen.
Let us rise. Now may the peace
of God, which goes beyond all of our understanding, keep
your hearts and your minds and especially your lives,
in the one true faith unto life everlasting. Amen.

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