To: ALL WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From; GOD THE FATHER, THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD,
The Helper, that He may be with you forever. [John 14:16 ]
Subject: MY WORD
7 Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you
will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on
seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened.
9 Or what man is there of you, if his son asks him for a loaf of
bread, will hand him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will hand him a serpent?
11 If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and
advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in
heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who
keep on asking Him!
22 And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God
[constantly].
23 Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up
and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes
that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.
24 For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in
prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you
will [get it].
25 And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against
anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that
your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and
shortcomings and let them drop.
9 So I say
to you, Ask and keep on asking and it shall be given you; seek and
keep on seeking and you shall find; knock and keep on knocking and the
door shall be opened to you.
10 For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and
he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and
keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened.
11 What father among you, if his son asks for a loaf of bread,
will give him a stone; or if he asks for a fish, will instead of a fish
give him a serpent?
12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
13 If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts [gifts
that are to their advantage] to your children, how much more will your heavenly
Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him!
ALSO [Jesus] told them a parable to the
effect that they ought always to pray and not to turn coward (faint, lose
heart, and give up).
2 He said, In a certain city there was a judge who neither
reverenced and feared God nor respected or considered man.
3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and
saying, Protect and defend and give me justice against my
adversary.
4 And for a time he would not; but later he said to himself, Though
I have neither reverence or fear for God nor respect or
consideration for man,
5 Yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will defend and
protect and avenge her, lest she give me intolerable annoyance and
wear me out by her continual coming or at the last she come and rail on
me or assault me or strangle me.
6 Then the Lord said, Listen to what the unjust judge says!
7 And will not [our just] God defend and protect and
avenge His elect (His chosen ones), who cry to Him day and night? Will He defer
them and delay help on their behalf?
8 I tell you, He will defend and protect and avenge
them speedily. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [persistence
in] faith on the earth?
