Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
January 11, 2025: SOAP #5518:  Genesis 27-28; Psalm 4; Luke 11

SCRIPTURE:  Luke (NIV) 11:9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

OBSERVATION:   Sometimes we have but to ask.  With simple faith believing and receiving from God.  

At other times, it is for us to seek out the answer.   To search the scriptures, to find what God has promised, to find what God has done in similar circumstances, or to see if God will emphasize a verse upon which we can place our faith.  Waiting for an answer can be a good time to search our hearts to see if we have missed something He has spoken to us.    

And there are times some action is required, so we knock.  Some personal involvement comes as we invest our time and resources into the matter for which we need His involvement.  Of course, our involvement is only like knocking on the door.  The opening of the door comes from Him.  The answer in the open door where we find His wisdom, power and resources. 

APPLICATION:  First:  I must not stop asking and believing.  Second:  I must not stop seeking until I find.  Do I desire it enough to seek?  Third:  I must not stop knocking until the door is opened and God is revealed in the situation for which I am praying.  Am I desperate enough to keep on knocking?      

The level of my faith can be seen in how quickly I stop asking Him and stop seeking Him and stop knocking on His door and I start looking elsewhere.  Of course, when God speaks, it is time to quit asking and seeking and knocking and start obeying and doing what He tells us to do.  Obedience leads to answers. 

PRAYER:  Holy Spirit, continue to teach me to pray and how to pray.  May the Heavenly Father enjoy hearing from me in prayer.  Teach me how to ask, how to seek, and how to knock.  Amen

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