The text for this evening's message comes from Matthew 7, 7 to 14. Ask and it will be given to you.

Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be open 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 gifts to those who ask him.

So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them,

for this is the law and the prophets.

Enter by the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction,

and those who enter by it are many.

For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life and those who find it are few.

Let's pray.

Father, we ask that your name now would be hallowed, that our hearts would rise up,

cherishing it and treasuring it and you above all things. And we ask that your

kingdom now would come especially your saving rain in this room and wherever my

voice is heard and that your will would be done in abortion clinics

and in hospitals around the world, the way the angels would do it in heaven, perfectly, joyfully, savingly.

And we ask that you would give the daily bread that little ones in the womb need to survive.

And we asked that sins would be forgiven for all of us. And we ask that we would be protected from the evil one who for these many millennia has never ceased to joy in child sacrifice.

So this is our prayer and we ask you to come and do it in Jesus' name, amen.

The first thing we need to see in this text is that there is a staggering truth, namely that

God, the creator of the universe, the one who upholds all things by the word of his power,

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