Have you heard of #SheReadsTruth? It is a community of women committed to studying the Bible through the You Version app and different reading plans. They have already done the Soul Detox and are now doing the Prayer reading plan. Each Friday is a link up, each day is a post about that day’s verse. Come join up!
Todays prayer included Luke 11:9-10: Ask & it will be given; seek & you will find; knock & the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; & to the one who knocks the door will be opened.
This has always been one of my favorite verses because it reminds me that God longs to give us what we ask for, He doesn’t want to withhold the good things from us. This passage also reminds me that while He wants to give us what we ask for, He won’t give us things that go according to His will or His plan. I think this is an important distinction to make. Someone may get frustrated with Him because things aren’t going according to [their] plan, or they haven’t gotten what [they] asked for, or because God said He would give it to them [what they wanted]. True, He does say to ask but we also know that if it is His will it will be done.
1 John 14-15 says: This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us-whatever we ask- we know that we have what we asked of him
It is important to mention that we may ask for something such as a better job or children or more time or whatever it is.. and God may give it to us but we don’t recognize the gift because we are looking for something our way, not His way. God’s provision for us may not be what we imagined but He is still fulfilling His promise to us. If we ask for children maybe He will open the doors to a teaching job where we will be able to care for lots of children or a job opens up but it isn’t the job we wanted. That may very well be but God has you where He puts you for a reason. Just because you don’t receive children the way you want now does not mean you won’t in a few years, or the job. Only He knows His timing and it all works out according to His will. We need to follow His will for our lives because it is orchestrated in a way that all the parts fit together. I can guarantee if you are walking in His way for your life, while you may struggle sometimes, or get frustrated that you will look back and start to see how certain steps you took, while not knowing it at the time, all worked together with Him giving you exactly what you needed when you needed it.