Stop Suffering ISSUE026 | Page 3

MESSAGE OF FAITH Ask God ASK GOD ---------------------------------------------------------- “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Luke 11.9-13 In other words, if your children ask you for something good, would you give them something bad? What good would a snake, or a scorpion, or a stone do for your children? None! And even you, being evil, would not give your child something evil. So how can God be good, yet give something bad to someone who asks Him for something good? Much more than an egg, bread, fish or anything that man considers important, God wants to give him His Spirit, because nothing and no one is more important than the Holy Spirit. What a person should do is seek, ask and knock. For how can someone receive if they do not ask, find if they do not seek, or have the door open if they do not knock? We have to do our part and God will do His. The disciple’s part was to wait in Jerusalem, and God’s part was to fill them with the Power from on High. Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. Luke 24.49 STOP STOP SUFFERING|03 SUFFERING|03