Wish Book

When I was a kid every year about this time there would come in the mail a catalog from Sears called the "Wish book." I would open that catalog up and look at all the different kinds of toys and I would start to wish I had this toy and could even image that very toy being mine. Before long I was wishing a lot of those toys were mine but that was all I was doing, just wishing. That is fine for a young boy to wish, but when one becomes older there is more to it than a wish. God gives us a plan and it's called prayer not wishful thinking but prayer and He teaches us how we are to go about it. Look with me for a moment in the book of Matthew Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Matthew 7:8
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Matthew 7:11
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

As we read that I want you to remember one word, for it will help you later to remember the process God wants you to take and that word is "ASK." Let me explain. Ask- {To request or petition} this means we must in prayer ask what we desire for the Lord to do.

Seek- {to go in search or quest of} We ask in prayer then we go in search for the quest we made. As one of my college professors taught me long ago "keep going through the doors until they shut."

Knock- {to knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge to be conquered} Keep pursuing after what you asked for. How bad do you want it? Things just don't float out of heaven Ask go after and God will open the doors for you. Take the first letter of each word and you come up with the word Ask, Seek, Knock. What make this principal so important? The same way you get an automatic door to open is the way to get God to open a door for you. You have to start moving in that direction. You have to start walking toward it before it will open. You can look at that door all day and it won't open for you; you can even wish it would open for you but nothing will happen until you start walking toward the door and then and only then will it open up for you. So what do you want God to do in your life? Have you asked Him? Are you seeking Him? Are you walking in that direction? If not then all you have is a wish book!