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Matthew 7:7 says, “Ask,” and what? “
You just never know
…
You just never know what God’s
going to do.
”
What if I ask Him for something? Some would say, “Well, you just never know, because He
knows better than we do, and sometimes He says, ‘Yes,’ and sometimes He says, ‘No.’
Sometimes He says, ‘Wait a while.’” Where is that scripture? Where is that verse? Yet millions
believe it. Millions would fight you over it.
The scripture gives us the right answer, and it’s in red letters. That means Jesus is talking. Red
letters trump human ignorance. Red letters trump religious confusion.
It says, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find.” Jesus said this. “Knock, and it
shall be opened unto you.” Jesus is speaking; it’s in red letters. “For every one that asketh
receiveth.” (Matthew 7:7-8) This isn’t religious. This isn’t what a lot of folks say. “Everyone that
asks, receives.” I wonder what Jesus meant by that?
A friend of mine was teaching one time, and the verse said, “He healed them all.” If you study
the Scriptures, you’ll find that phrase numerous times. “Multitudes came to him,” and it said,
“He healed them all.” (Matthew 12:15)
He wanted to know what the Lord meant by that, so he launched into an etymological word
study, and he looked up the words in the Hebrew, and the Greek, and the Chaldean, and the
Aramaic, and he did an extensive study. I wanted to know what he found out.
He found out that what this word—translated from the Hebrew, Greek, and very similarly
Chaldean and Aramaic—really meant in English was…“all.”
Well, that’s what I thought He meant. “He healed them all,” everyone who asked. I wonder what
He means by that… “Everyone that asks receives. He that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it
shall be opened.”
Now, we need to believe this. We need to believe that every time we reach up, He reaches back.
We need to believe what He said, that if we draw nigh to Him, He does draw nigh to us. If we
ask Him sincerely, He will answer us. If we seek Him, He will reveal Himself to us.
Our expectation is the faith He needs to do it for us legally. We can’t approach it with, “Well, we
never know. I’ll throw out a bunch of prayers and hope one of them will hit. You just never
know.” No. That is unbelief. That is wavering, and the Bible says a man who wavers is double
minded and won’t receive. (James 1:6-8) You have to get it settled: Jesus told it like it is, and He
told it correctly. This is right. He said, “Ask and you will receive. Everyone that asks receives.”
He also asks, “What man is there of you, if he has a son, and his son asks him for some bread,
will he give him a stone?” (Matthew 7:9) Jesus is asking us a question. Here’s a man, here’s a
father, a daddy whose boy asks him for some bread. Does his daddy give him a rock?
“Daddy, I’m hungry. Can I have some bread?”