In the last chapter of the Sermon on the Mount , Matthew 7, Jesus is winding down His instructions on how we should interact with fellow followers:
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
In this call to prayer, Jesus talks both about individual followers - the one who asks, seeks, and knocks - as well as His people corporately: everyone, you plural, children (plural). Christ's followers should be known as those who pray together and on their own, trusting God to give what is good, what we need, all we need. He will repeat these instructions as reminders late in His ministry, but the principle was there from the beginning: ask and show that you trust Him. Let's show Him how much we trust Him today.
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