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Mathew. 7. 8. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he
that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. -
Bible Offline
- ASKING PRAYER.
Asking prayer means to inquire, to make
demands, to receive. This level of prayer is for those who just appear before
the Father when they have needs. They are getters, they are those who see
prayer as a means of submitting their numerous list of needs. They are easily
frustrated when there's delay in answer in respect to their request. Asking
prayer is for ‘babies in Christ’ who ask and ask and ask. You often see them in
prayer meetings, the only time they appear before God is when they are in need
of something. They see God as a giver and they are the type you see on December
31st. The Bible says, it is more blessed to give than to receive,
but these people are receivers only. However, because of the faithfulness and love
of God towards men, He gives them when certain conditions are met. Jesus placed
a low level of importance on this prayer; if the only time God sees your face
in His presence is only when in need, you need to step up to the next phase of
prayer.
- SEEKING PRAYER
And
He That Seeks Find. Finds what? I once read Tommy Teeny’s book titled: 'Prayer
of a GOD CHASER'- Who is a God chaser? A God chaser is a God getter, seeking
God when He can be found. This talks about time, I have discovered there are
two best times to find God according to the bible, early in the morning and in
the cool of the day. This is a level of prayer for those who are hungry for
God. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst for righteousness..... THEY
SHALL BE FED, those who will not be stopped or stop at nothing until they come
into fellowship with God. Those who will give it all it takes to be in the
circumference of His presence. Those consumed with burning hunger and dry
thirst for God, those that have transcended from getting the GIFT to getting
the GIVER. Those who do not see prayer as a medium to submit their endless list
of request but a way of honoring divine call to fellowship. Call to the father
of Lord Jesus Christ, the father of Glory, to the enumerable company of angels.
The heavenly Jerusalem, the same place Moses entered and communed with God
forty days and forty night; the ‘askers’ (the crowd) were at the base of the
mountain , but the ‘seeker’ (Moses) was called up to the mountain, in the smoke
where God is. Those askers had to wait until the seeker came back with results.
I wish your prayer henceforth will be ‘Lord I no longer want to appear before
you all because of the gifts you have to offer me but because there is a need
for me to fellowship with you (God)’.
I
feel the urge to talk about this a little more. For one who wants to know the
original plan of God for man, let him go to the book of Genesis. We were never
created to be askers but for fellowship. God told me something, He said ‘I did
not call man up for fellowship, but I God came down to man to fellowship with
him. God came in company of His angels to the garden to FELLOWSHIP with
man. When we lost it, we became askers. We became short of that glory. How many
of us know that the commandment of God that the day man eat of the forbidden
fruit HE SHALL DIE is not about physical death, but it is ‘A SEPARATION FROM
GOD’? Man became separated. God never came down to him anymore but thank God
redemption restored the fellowship, then we have the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the love of God, AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, be with you
all.
It is a kind of prayer in which we appears
before God in ministering to Him. We read in our Bible that the apostles were
ministering to God, singing praises, worshipping him, forgetting their many
problems, enjoying the communion and God asks, son, daughter, ooh! You are here
what can I do for you? You replied, father, I just came to worship you, to tell
you how wonderful you are and He says, OK, I also have some wonderful packages
for you when going; these when opened, is multiple fold of what your brain
could have ever asked in prayer.
For further study on SEEKING PRAYER, read Psalms 42:1 and Jeremiah 29:12-13
- KNOCKING PRAYER
This prayer means praying out our burden.
This directly addresses the matter of PRAYING EFFECTIVELY and PRAYING EARNESTLY.
The most important ones or the highest order of levels of prayer is KNOCKING
PRAYER. Going back to our text in Matthew 7:7 and
verse 8, ‘for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and
to him that knocketh it shall be opened’. And to everyone that KNOCKS,
IT SHALL BE OPENED, What shall be opened? Doors and/or windows. I will use the
phrase ‘knocking prayer’ and ‘earnest prayer’ interchangeably. Sometimes, I
have had to leave what I was doing and RUN to my gate to see who was knocking.
I mean I RAN not walk especially when you have some impatient visitors at your
gate who came knocking tirelessly. No man feels comfortable under a pressing
and persistent knock on the door, you cannot try to pretend it is not affecting
you. You cannot pretend to be having a nice sleep when someone is banging hard
on your door.
Knocking prayer will cause God and arise
and even His angels to rush down when someone rightfully applies it, Jesus
explained this with a parable to show how significant it is.
Luke 11:5-8
5. And he said unto them, Which of you
shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him,
Friend, lend me three loaves; 6. For a friend of mine in his journey is come to
me, and I have nothing to set before him? 7. And he from within shall answer
and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in
bed; I cannot rise and give thee. 8. I say unto you, though he will not rise
and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will
rise and give him as many as he needeth. - Bible Offline.
From the above passage, it’s a question
and answer
He goes to his friend at what hour of the
day? Midnight hour talks about a time of Rest
Remember, Jesus said the day is for work,
the NIGHT COMES WHEN NO MAN SHALL BE ABLE TO WORK. That same hour when no man should
work was when the man came. He was not qualified for attention. Now, what was
his request? Loaves of bread. Was his request genuine? Yes.
But his time of request. Was it right? NO.
We know that when a good thing is done wrongly, it automatically becomes wrong.
What was d normal answer the man should give him, I mean the owner of the
house, according to the text? It is late, Heaven has closed, Angels are
resting, and Gabriel is snoring. He worked all day, everywhere is shut down. I
CANNOT RISE UP AND GIVE THEE. Let's read verse 8 now, I say unto you, Though he will
not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity
he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. - Bible Offline.
Look at it closely, I love the first
sentence. Though he will not rise up because of friendship, that they are
friends is not going to make him stand up, it is not only to be a friend of God
as far as this matter is concerned. Then what will dis man consider? Look at
how this version puts it, ‘I tell you this--though he won't do it for
friendship's sake, if you keep knocking long enough, he will get up and give
you whatever you need because of your shameless persistence’ (Holman
Christian Standard Bible). I love my bible than any other book in the world. No
book is as interesting as it.
I tell you, even though he won't get up
and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend's
persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
He now says, but because of HIS PERSISTENCE
He keeps knocking and knocking to the
point he becomes a disturbance, and God says, come, if we do not answer this
guy, we will have no attention to attend to other matters. Please, what exactly
does he need? -because of his continuous, tireless and persistent knocking, God
will have to respond. We need to see what Gods response will be like, He will
give him AS MANY AS HE NEEDS.
I am talking about a generation of people
that will not give up praying until so meting happens, until heaven responds,
men that will not lift their head until God says, sit, eat and cheer up, the
answer is here. Men that will wrestle with God all night until there is a
question of TELL ME YOUR NAME. Men that will press hard on heaven door until
the anointing is poured out, that will hold the peace in heaven until there is
a physical manifestation of God's response on the earth. Praying hard until
something happens, knocking hard until God sees your determination. Banging hard
until God comes and respond to your call. EARNEST KNOCKING PROVOKES OPENING OF
HEAVEN DOORS. Everybody prays but only a few pray earnestly. Some give up at
the verge of God's response, some allow heaven to rest with their 'If it is thy
will' prayer. I tell you today, if you need healing, it is the will of God,
knock for it, you need prosperity, it is His will knock for it, don’t stop
praying and believing God until it becomes evident in your life.
Luke: 22. 44. ‘And being in an agony he prayed more
earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to
the ground’. - Bible Offline.
He prayed MORE EARNESTLY being in agony,
MORE EARNESTLY, MORE INTENSELY. He intensified the knock, the more the agony,
the more he prayed.
Elijah stilled not only rainfall, but DEW
also. I tell you that was the power of an earnest prayer.
1 kings 17 only tells us Elijah said by my word but
by revelation, God revealed in James that Elijah did not just achieve that by
mere saying but He prayed EARNESTLY THAT THERE BE NO RAIN AND HE PRAYED AGAIN
AND RAIN FELL. James: 5. 17. Elijah
was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it
might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and
six months. 18. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought
forth her fruit. - Bible Offline.
Happy Easter
Author
Harrison Nejo
harrisonnejo@gmail.com
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