Key Verse: Verse 7 - “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”
Key Words: Ask, and it shall be given you
In today’s world of greed and gain, Matthew 7:7a, “Ask, and it shall be given you” is always taken as a selfish, covetous way God becomes our errand boy…fetch this and get that.
But could it be, should it be that God wants to give us victory over such things as our besetting sins?
As a young woman, Frances Havergal, author of the hymns, “Take My Life and Let It Be” and “Like a River Glorious,” had a very quick temper. It was the kind that would easily explode. After she would blow up, she would be mortified and confess her failure to the Lord only to lose her temper, again and again. One day after a particularly bad explosion, she threw herself down by her bed and wept. She prayed, “Lord, must it always be so? Will I always have this temper to keep me humble before you?”
While she was on her knees, the Lord injected a verse of Scripture in her mind: “The Egyptians whom you have seen today you will see no more forever.” God spoke these words to Moses when the Egyptians pursued the Israelites to take them back into bondage. Havergal related the verse to her temper and the way in which Satan wanted to use it to pull her into failure, bondage, and defeat. She saw that God could take her temper away. She asked, “Lord, could it be forever?” It seemed to her that the words came back from the Lord, “Yes, no more, forever.” Her sister said that from that day Frances Havergal never again lost her temper. She believed God, and the Lord gave her total victory in her life.
Today, maybe, just maybe, we should ask God not to be our errand boy for selfish gain, but to be our God and ask Him not to give but to take away that besetting sin so we can receive freedom from it!!
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞Ask, but ask for God’s glory, not for things but for spiritual victory in your life.
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