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For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. ---Luke11:10

Nothing is more difficult than praying. We long, adore, and even suffer, but we will not pray until we are at the end of our tether. There is only an unrealistic feeling urging us to pray. Have you ever prayed to God from the pit of poverty of virtue? “If anyone of you lack wisdom, ask for God...” but do make sure that you lack in the wisdom, that you can’t always face the practical things as you wish. If you feel that there is no spiritual reality, the next best thing is to ask for the holy spirit in accordance with the word of the Lord (Luck 11:13). The holy spirit’s job is to make real what Jesus has done for you.

“Everyone who asks receives.” This is not to say that you do not ask and will not receive (compared with Matthew5:45), but that you cannot receive anything from God until you have gone to the place of asking. “Receiving” means that you have established a relationship with God, to know all things from God whatever in intellect, in spirit or the spiritual comprehension.

“If anyone of you lack the wisdom…” You know your lack because you have touched the spiritual reality. Don’t turn on the flashing lights of your mind. People would say, “give us a simple Gospel; don’t make us holy, because it makes you feel poor, which doesn’t feel good.” To “ask to God” means to beg. Some of us are poor enough to live in poverty, and some of us are spiritually poor so. If you have a purpose in your heart, you will never get it from God. For out of lust, not out of poverty. Beggars have no other reason for begging than to be penniless. Therefore, he is not ashamed to beg—blessed is the poor in spirit.

Dear God, I praise you for the church, because it has testified that you are the strength of the needy, the strength of the afflicted people in trouble, the refuge of the waves and the shade of the heat.

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