12 August 2015: Good Things

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text  

“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?” Matthew 7v11 (KJV)

Many have been looking unto the Lord for one thing or the other. We may be praying for our marriages, jobs, families, salvation for a loved one, financial breakthrough; a number of different things. Matthew 7v11 (TLB) says “And if you hard-hearted, sinful men know how to give good gifts to your children, won’t your Father in heaven even more certainly give good gifts to those who ask Him for them?” While there is an element of asking God for us to receive, we also need to trust God. Psalm 139 talks of how God knows us, our uprising, our sitting down, how He understands our thoughts. Indeed God knows us, what His plans for us are and what is best for us. God’s thoughts towards you are good, and His plans for you are the best (Jeremiah 29v11), and He does want to give you good things. Romans 8v32 (AMP) says “He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things?” Hebrews 11v6 (AMP) encourages us that “But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out].” Amen.

 

Prayer

Father, I thank You because You are a good God. There is none like You, none as holy, true and good as You are. We thank You for the good things that You have given to us and continue to give to us. Father, we thank You for those things that we have asked You for. We thank You because Your Word which says ask and it shall be given unto you, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you is true. We thank You for this O God. I know and believe that You give good things to those who ask of You and that You reward those who diligently seek You. The grace to wait upon You, please grant unto us in Jesus name, amen. What a privilege it is to seek You and to know You. Blessed be Your holy name forevermore in Jesus name, amen.