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Matthew chapter 7 beginning in verse 7.

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 sons ask 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?

So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

When you pause and reflect for a moment that God is infinitely strong and can do anything he pleases and that God is infinitely righteous

and only does what is right and that God is infinitely good and therefore

everything he does is good and that God is

so that he knows perfectly what is good and what is right

and that God is infinitely loving so that all of his

strength and all of his righteousness and all of his goodness and all of his

wisdom functions to raise the joy of his loved ones as high as it can

be raised forever when you pause to consider that this God lavishly invites you to come

and ask him for things with the promise that he will give good things to those

who ask, it is breathtaking. It also means that one of the short-term unspeakable tragedies in the church is that there is so little inclination to pray.

Almost anything can take us away from it.

It is as though God spread the most universally lavish banquet imaginable, sent out free invitations to come and eat,

and we said, on our return RSVP,

I just bought a field and I must go see it.

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