Jesus Words – Ask-Seek-Knock
Matt 7:7-8
IMMENSITY
How big is a trillion?
Spend $1 million every day since Jesus is born – still haven’t spent a trillion.
Size of 2 Suns
The radius of UY Scuti is about 1,700 times larger than the sun’s radius.
- @ 500 mph x 24 hrs a day, = 1000yrs to circumnavigate
- ( scale) 17.7 feet. to a pinhead
When you pause to consider that God is infinitely strong and can do all that he pleases, and that he is infinitely righteous so that he only does what is right, and that he is infinitely good so that everything he does is perfectly good, and that he is infinitely wise so that he always knows perfectly what is right and good, and that he is infinitely loving so that in all his strength and righteousness and goodness and wisdom he raises the eternal joy of his loved ones as high as it can be raised — when you pause to consider this, then the lavish invitations of this God to ask him for good things, with the promise that he will give them, is unimaginably wonderful.
https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/ask-your-father-in-heaven
Consider Parent-Child
Child invited to ask….
Legos
Clothes
Favorite meal
A hug
Read a story
Go to the park
Special trip
If the child :
never asked ?
Rarely asked?
Occasionally asked?
The power of “WILL”
Matt 7:9-12
So how do we HEAR that in light of God’s IMMENSITY
JAMES 4
You want something but don’t get it…. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” (James 4:2-3)
The nuances of answers to request.
BOOK
12 Years a slave.
WHY????
Freedom to slavery , Godly man, inhumananity, pain, loss
History – Uncle Tom’s cabin
ANATOMY OF REQUEST
The request for ice cream sandwich.
Mom answer…. maybe health, nutrition, proximate to other meals etc
Bebop answer…. ahhh,why not!
We all love ice cream, Joy in receipt.
Fun to say yes…. etc.
GOD CONSIDERATIONS…
Health,
Joy,
Perfect plan
Invitation To MEET