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God’s Word Says for His Children to Come Boldly to the Throne of Grace, in Our Time of Need

Tip! Praise and thanksgiving – This is the earnest, heartfelt prayer where we come before the Lord thanking and praising him for his mighty power and love. We may praise him in both our earthly and spiritual language.

"...Every one that asks receives..." -- Luke 11:10.

When our Lord voiced these enduring words He gave to every born again child of the Living God the absolute right to pray. This was all new to Jesus' disciples, so with this fact in mind He impressed on them the importance of asking in order to receive by asking them some relevant questions:

"If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" -- Luke 11:11-13

Is it not the most natural thing in the entire world for a father to listen to the requests of his family? If the father loves his son, would it not go against his own human nature to give his child a stone, or a snake, or a stinging scorpion instead of bread? The father will give to his children accordingly to the amount of his love for his child. When Jesus said, "...Any of you that is a father," He wants us to compare a man's love for his children to God's love for His children. He is telling us to look beyond our earthly fathers, and determine for ourselves how much more our heavenly Father will be motivated to give good gifts to His children. Jesus is teaching us to understand that as much as God's goodness surpasses the goodness of mortal man, so much greater is our guarantee that He will give to us what we ask for because of our childlike prayers.

Tip! In (Phil. 4:6) we have these words about prayer: “Be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.

God's holy Word says for His children to come boldly to the throne of grace, and find grace to help in our time of need. Every child of God from the youngest to the oldest irrespective of age, sex, or race, has every right to ask the Father for the bread of life. Underprivileged people as well as the crippled, the weak, and the sick have every right to ask their heavenly Father for the living bread from heaven.

Our Savior wants us to understand this never-ending truth that, "...Every one that asks receives..." It would be totally ridiculous for our loving Father to pay no attention to our intense prayers. He can not remain silent and insensitive when His own children are weeping and facing Him in our earnest petitions.

Tip! It opens the door for salvations. (Act 2:42) “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers”.

According to Jesus' teachings prayer has two sides, a human side and a divine side, and He wants us to understand them both. Our side or the human side is simply the asking part, and then the divine side is the giving part from our Father. So these two halves that make up the whole part is our prayer; the asking and the receiving. You see our asking and the Fathers' answering go hand in hand with to each other. Without one there is no need for the other and vice versa; our requests on earth and our Father's reply in heaven are intended for each other. If we can believe that our Father has made sufficient provision for our needs as His children, then how can we not also believe that He will surely give us all the good gifts according to His promise?

Look again at what Jesus teaches us; we must come to Him day by day in order to receive the bread of life to maintain us in this world today. It is His will that day by day; not week by week or month by month; but day by day He wants to do for us what we ask from Him in simple faith.

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