Monday, December 06, 2010

Digging Deeper Matthew 7:7-11 with Commentary

How are you doing? Have you been tracking with us for the last 11 months? Perhaps you have opted to skip over the Monday and Friday Digging Deeper Victory Calls. Let me encourage you to join the journey even now. Perhaps you have been meditating and memorizing right along with us. Kudos. The value of doing such a discipline will be well worth the effort. We have only a few weeks left. Finish strong. Finish well.

Matthew 7:7-11
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Commentary:
"ASK: Disciples should come to God in humility and conscious of need. SEEK connects one's prayer with responsible action in pursuing the will of God. KNOCK suggests perseverance. Disciples are to persist in prayer, confident that their Father will provide whatever is best for them, according to his sovereign, gracious will." [ESV Study Bible notes, Page 1834]

Blessings,
Diane

Diane Hunt is the Director of Addiction Recovery and Development at America's KESWICK. In addition to her Keswick responsibilities which keep her busy, she loves to read, write and teach, travel and laugh with her grandchildren. Diane has been married to her husband John over 25 years. She has 2 children, 3 grandchildren, 3 step-children, and 7 step-grandchildren.

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