Today's Journal
KEEP ON PRAYING
Not long after the quote from yesterday’s Journal entry in Matthew 6 (The Lord’s Prayer), we see an encouragement to keep on pursuing our needs and desires from the Lord.“Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8 Amplified Version)
It is the in-between time of asking, seeking and knocking that is so tough to deal with. The actual asking may seem like we are talking to the seagulls, the actual seeking may appear we are going around in circles and the knocking is as if no one is home. That’s the in-between time.
The giving answer, the seeking secret and the knocking opening are sometimes a long waiting prayer; sometimes a short and final finish.
I’m headed over to the other side of the Pond to have some Cuban Coffee and Tres Leches Cake and hope to convince myself to keep on, keeping on. Awaken my faith, Lord, to still keep asking…still keep searching…still keep knocking. Can you hear me now?
“Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you.” Jesus