Your Answer May Be On Its Way

Friday, August 11, 2023

Growing up, some of my friends played a practical joke by super gluing a quarter to the sidewalk. When someone would bend down to pick it up, it wouldn’t move. It was fixed to the sidewalk. A quarter barely weighs anything, but super glued to the sidewalk, it weighs as much as the pavement. A cruel practical joke, but a great spiritual lesson. If you try to be strong, holy and righteous in your own strength; your own weight, you will fall short. It’s not going to weigh much. But if you affix yourself to God; to His righteousness, then His strength, His righteousness, His weight, His power, His resources, His abilities and even His authority becomes yours. You’re going to live not by your own weight; not by the lightness of a coin, but by the solidity of the Rock, strong, as you join yourself to God. Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. It’s a cosmic truth that can change your life. Live by the weight and power of the Rock and not by the lightness of a coin.

Often in prayer, you don’t see things right away. Many many many times you don’t.
And there are times, listen. God can say no, and he can say wait.
But that many times you don’t see it and you might give up.
And yet, god sometimes doesn’t answer us right away with that where it may be a yes, but because of building faith and perseverance.
And times may go by, and you might see, you know, it seems like it’s over.
You might give up, but it may not be something you’re supposed to give up on.
Zechariah or Zechariah, the father of John, yeah, the John the Baptist is in the temple, and the angel says to him, Zechariah, God has heard your prayers.
Now think about it. Zigariah’s old.
You know, we think of Zigariah’s the one who doubted, but he had a lot of faith before He’s praying.
It means that
what what the angel’s saying is, Gabriel, you’ve been praying for this, Zechariah.
You’ve been praying to have a child.
Now now he’s long his wife is past the age of having a child.
So they must have been praying for a long time.
You know, when they got married, not long after they might have a child.
When they were young and they got married, you know, younger than we do, uh, by an average.
And so he must have been praying for a long time. Lord, we want a child. We want a child.
We try now it’s pa looks like it’s all passed. And the angel says, you’ve been praying.
Now now Zechariah had
to be praying probably for years and years, and he says god has heard your prayer.
Now it’s probably years later, god has heard it. God had heard it.
It’d been interesting because Zechariah’s real name in Hebrew is Sahariah.
Try it. Sahariah. Zahariya, that’s where you get Zechariah from or Zechariah.
And here, it says that his name means God has remembered
Now, the angel just said god has heard, but the prayers were probably prayed a long time ago,
and it and his name means god has remembered. God doesn’t forget the prayers.
It says he has all this. See how he keeps it. Prayers go up to god.
Like, in such prayers, you prayed years ago, he you might have forgotten and he doesn’t forget.
God will not forget your prayers. Do you remember when when Cornelius is praying up.
And also, the angel says your prayers have ascended as a memorial.
Like like god has been watching you pray for years, Cornelius. And now god’s gonna answer it.
So the power goes right along with the famous words of god to you, Jesus to you, ask and you shall receive seek and you shall find knock and the door shall be open.
Does that mean everything you ask for you’ll get? No. It never says that.
But you’ll get something if you’re asking in faith.
God will give you either what you’re asking for or what you need, which is better.
But if it’s not the same. The neighbor is asking seeking and knocking.
And again, it’s all about prayer.
So this must be, you know, it’s this must be an important thing.
Now now the the Greek tense, some of you may know, some of you may not know when he says ask, and it shall be given, you know, seeking, you’ll find The the Greek tense in the Bible is not asking you’ll receive.
It’s in asking or in continuous asking you shall receive.
In seeking not just seek, but in seeking god or in continuous seeking, you will find.
And in not just knock, but in knocking, knocking, knocking, you ever knock on a door for a long time?
You shall be giving. Keep asking. Keep seeking. Keep knocking.
If you don’t know it’s a no, it might be
a no. That’s fine. You accept it from the lord.
But then say, lord, give me your will, because god has something better. Keep seeking.
You know, in my house, I’m often downstairs. And someone’s knocking. Someone knocks on the door.
I have to, you know, break from what I’m doing.
I gotta run, get up the stairs, go up there, go, you know, and there’s times I get there and they’re gone.
They gave up, or maybe the, you know, maybe it’s happened to you. Somebody’s knocking
at the door, and you can you can raise your hand in a moment if I’m gonna ask you.
And you’re not fully presentable. You’re not fully dressed.
Has that ever happen to anybody here?
Yeah. And so so and the thing is that that you get yourself quickly.
You’re getting on the thing.
You’re getting yourself ready, and you run down. And sometimes they’re not they couldn’t weigh their away.
And, you know, you can pray,
and you don’t see the answer, and you give up, and yet the answer could be on its way.
It says, keep on.
This whole parable here is against the idea that you just ask once and you seek once and you you knock once, although there may be times god does that.
But that’s not the the normal thing here. The point here is he kept he kept the guy was shameless.
He just didn’t that they were sleeping didn’t matter. They were in
the bed. He just kept doing it. And because he kept doing it, he he was answered.
That’s what Jesus is telling you. That’s what Messiah is telling you. First, it’s gotta be god’s will.
We know that. First, it’s gotta be god’s will, but And it’s gonna be and and but if it is.
And if you’re not sure, you just seek, Lord, that or something, that is your will.
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