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THE MIDNIGHT FRIEND – PRAYER ANSWERED
THURSDAY, JUNE 4
Luke 11:1-13

Memory verse: Luke 11:13

 

“…how much more shall
your heavenly Father give the

Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”

 

THE MIDNIGHT FRIEND – PRAYER ANSWERED
 
If the friend would not open the door to help a friend, but for his persistent request, he relented and gave him all he needed, how much more would our heavenly Father give to His beloved children who ask persistently?
 
Our heavenly Father wants His children to ask, not perfunctorily but passionately with heartfelt conviction. To capture this truth, Jesus used a sequence of verbs that is best quoted: “And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened” (Luke 11:9-10). Ask, seek and knock are crucial in every believer’s prayer so that he would know God heard him when the prayers are answered. The believer’s walk with God is strengthened. His faith and trust in God is deepened. These are the spiritual results of our prayers that God desires for all His beloved children if only they would pray without ceasing from the heart! God has guaranteed us that He would hear and answer. The question is not whether God would hear and answer, but whether His children would ask, seek and knock!
 
Pray without ceasing; your heavenly Father will always give you what is best for your spiritual well-being. You ask for bread, fish or egg, and your heavenly Father will provide you with bread, fish and egg. If we who are evil know how to give good gifts to our children, how much more shall our loving and gracious heavenly Father give us the very best, even the Holy Spirit who dwells in all believers. Praying for the help of the Holy Spirit in the believer’s life is the best prayer request a believer can ever ask God for. The Holy Spirit will comfort, strengthen, illuminate, guide, fill, direct, grant discernment, lead and come upon the believer so that all will do the will of God. Pray always according to God’s Word and will by faith, and the answers from God are always yes. All believers must focus on this truth of receiving an affirmative answer from God every time they pray. When the answer comes, the believer experiences the presence of the heavenly Father in his life.
 
THOUGHT: Do not stop praying.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, help me to always pray in faith.

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