Luke 11:9 “So I say to you ask, and it will be given to you: seek, and you will find: knock, and it will be opened to you.”
Dear God,
Thank You for hearing and answering my prayers for forgiveness and to be filled with Your Spirit. Thank You for watching over me all through each day, as well as leading me to Yourself. I also give thanks that in the Bible, there is a record of how Jesus taught His disciples to pray, in ‘The Lord’s Prayer’.
Please strengthen and grow my faith in You, so that I can and will praise You for all things; whether, good or seemingly bad. Impress me with the reality of my need to bring prayers to You with persistence, as Jesus illustrated in His example of the man petitioning his friend in the middle of the night for bread. Then because they were friends, and because of the persistent knocking, his friend did get up and supply the bread. I thank You for the assurance, that my request will be granted, and that You will give me spiritual blessings, for “’Your door is always open’”. I am so very grateful that for me and all of us, You are a just and loving God and Your answers to my prayers are not based upon my personal conduct. For You know my heart and the remorse I have for my misdeeds, that You have placed in my heart, that causes me to repent and confess, which leads to my being forgiven by You and reconciled to You. When I seek You with a true heart, I can ask with courage and belief, for You have promised to always receive me when I pray thus, as given in Luke 11:10 “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened to you.”
I with assurance know that my soul will be kept safe, when I love and serve God with a pure and undivided heart. I also know that I cannot dally with Satan’s temptations, and have my soul fully guarded, for it is written in Luke 11:23 “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.”
I seriously reflect on the truth, that if I am not obedient to You, dear Jesus, Son of God, and do not tell others about You, then I am not working with You, my Saviour. Sadly and even more seriously, I realize, that then my own eternal salvation would be at risk, because I have regularly neglected to speak for You and obey You¸ and so at that time, make it harder for others to know and accept You as their Saviour. Oh Lord strengthen me, for this must never be, for I then would be working as one who scatters precious people, that You desire to gather and save, as Your own.
Amen