Place of Prayer in Judgment

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:7-12 (KJV).

I am a little slow sometimes on things, and my pointing this out has probably already been seen by most everyone else. I just noticed this a very short ten or so years ago. Ask, Seek, Knock, and you take the first letters of each word, and you have the word Ask. Now that is really neat. I do not believe that to be just an accident, or a coincidence, but the power of the Word of God inspired by the Holy Spirit.

God’s promises are stedfast and true (vv. 7-8). The first thing the Kingdom dweller must do is ASK; for wisdom, knowledge, righteousnss, for making right judgments. Ask for the glory of the Lord in all things. Ask for His glory in your own life. The second thing the Kingdom dweller ASK in Seeking is to do it diligently, frequently, hopefully, and once again; what ever we are seeking that we may glorify the Lord. The final thing in the ASK acrostic is in Knocking. Be consistent, persistent, victorious, and again for the glory of the Lord.

When we go to the Lord Asking, Seeking and Knocking we must always realize that He is much more generous than we are. He gives by grace always. We almost without thought give to those we deem most deserving; in most situations. God is much more generous than we are (vv. 9-11).

The Place of Prayer in Judgment is that in prayer we can believe God enables us to treat others the way we want to be treated ourselves. When you look deeply into someone else’s eyes you can see yourself. The same can be said of them looking into your eyes. When we get to the point that we can actually begin to realize this maybe we can get the gist of Jesus’s message of “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” (v.12). The “Law and the prophets” has to do with the whole of the Word of God.