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Ask Away
Steve Tiebout stevetiebout@gmail.com
Scripture:
Matthew 7:7-11
H ave you wondered if it is OK to pray and ask God for a classic car? Is it OK to pray and ask God for a wife? What about healing from cancer? In the Lord’s prayer in Matthew 6 Jesus invites the disciples to pray and ask the Lord for their daily bread. This would clearly be a reference to praying and asking God for the needs in your life. But what about your dreams, your desires? Is it okay to pray and ask for those things as well? In the very next chapter Matthew 7:7-11 Jesus gives us the answer beginning with, 7) 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. 9) Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread will be given a stone? 10) Or if he asks for a fish, will he be given a serpent? 11) If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heav- en give good things to those who ask him!” So in our prayer time with God, what is OK for us to ask for? The simple answer is any- thing! Now what we need to realize is that although it is okay to ask for anything it doesn’t mean God will always say yes. The more I understand the role
of a father and the love of a father, the more I understand why I can ask our heavenly Father for anything. As a father of six, I’ve realized how much I love to bless my kids. As Jesus says in Matthew, “if they came and asked me for bread to eat, I would never throw a snake at them, because I love them and want to bless them.” However, there are times I’ve had my kids ask me for things and I had to tell them no, perhaps because I had a better plan to bless them even more or that I had a wiser plan…even though they didn’t think so. God is a father who loves us and He is not afraid of any of our prayer requests for needs, struggles, and even a classic car. If He tells me no, I may never know why and the truth is, there are many things I don’t think I will understand until I enter heaven. But like my friend Jeff Davidson (the father of a profoundly special-needs son) used to say to me, “When I don’t understand God’s actions, I trust His love.” My hope for you is that you will see the Heavenly Father not through the idea of your paternal father (as he was only a sinner just like you and I) but through the eyes of a per- fectly loving father who is always on mission to draw you into a closer relationship with Himself. I pray you will get to know Him as I have because he is the best dad ever.
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