Asking & Knocking
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 9 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Since God knows our every need before we ask Him, why should we pray? Today, R.C. Sproul continues his expositional series in Luke's gospel to consider the privilege we have of coming before our Father in prayer.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on renewing your mind, why do we pray? |
| 0:03.4 | So the purpose of our prayer is not to go through a grocery list of things that we need |
| 0:10.3 | in order to inform God of our situation. |
| 0:14.6 | He already knows it. |
| 0:15.9 | Well, if he already knows it, and he's inclined to give these things, why bother to ask? |
| 0:22.6 | Well, that question has been asked for ages. |
| 0:30.8 | God is sovereign over all things, so what do our prayers accomplish? |
| 0:35.8 | Today on renewing your mind, RC Sproul will address that question and help us realize |
| 0:40.3 | the great privilege we have to come to our Heavenly Father in prayer. |
| 0:45.1 | We're going to continue our study of the gospel according to Saint Luke, and we are in |
| 0:53.5 | the 11th chapter, and today I'll be reading from verse 5 through verse 13. |
| 1:02.5 | And he said to them, which of you shall have a friend and go to him at midnight and say |
| 1:09.2 | to him, friend, lend me three loaves for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and |
| 1:19.3 | I have nothing to set before him, and he will answer from within and say, do not trouble |
| 1:25.9 | me, the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. |
| 1:31.3 | I cannot rise and give to you. |
| 1:34.8 | I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because |
| 1:41.2 | of his persistence, he will rise and give him as many as he needs. |
| 1:48.4 | So I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you, seek and you will find, knock, and |
| 1:56.3 | it will be open to you for everyone who asks, receives, and he who seeks, finds, and to |
| 2:04.1 | him unocks, it will be opened. |
| 2:07.0 | If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? |
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