God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0: Ask, Seek, Knock - Ashley Anderson

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This Sunday, Pastor Ashley continued our "God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0" series by taking a closer look at Luke 11 where Jesus exhorts us to ask, seek, and knock. Prayer has less to do with technique, and more to do with who is listening. When we pray, we must remember who we're talking to: God, who is readily available, accessible, and can be "interrupted" at any time.

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0:00.0	Thanks for joining us for the Church of the City, New York podcast.
0:09.4	At the start of the year, we did a series called God Comes Where He's Wanted.
0:13.2	And honestly, the feedback's been overwhelming.
0:15.3	We have seen such an increase in hunger for prayer and the manifest presence of God in our church community.
0:21.6	So rather than switching to a new series, we thought we're just going to keep this going.
0:26.6	So we're about to start a six-week series leading up to Easter that is on Jesus' teaching about how to interact with God through prayer.
0:34.6	And we're simply calling this God comes where he's won at 2.0.
0:38.2	So I hope this stirs your faith even further and inspires you to seek God like never before.
0:45.8	Now let's get back to the podcast.
0:51.4	The teaching text tonight is Luke 11, 9 through 13.
0:56.9	So I say to you, ask and it will be given to you.
1:00.7	Seek and you will find.
1:02.6	Knock and the door will be opened to you.
1:05.5	For everyone who asks receives, the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the
1:10.6	door will be opened.
1:12.5	Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he
1:18.2	asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion. If you then, though you are evil, know how to give
1:24.4	good gifts to your children. How much more will your father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
1:31.5	This is the word of the Lord.
1:36.2	In 2016, I told God that I was done with prayer.
1:42.6	I was living in D.C. at the time, and I was part of a church that was
1:46.5	doing this eight-week sermon series called Mountains Move. And that was a series where we were all
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