07/16/2025 – “The Concept of Divine Control” / “… how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! (Matthew 7:11). // Note – Just one verse amongst 17 verses wrapped around the devotion this morning. (see below)
“Jesus is laying down the rules of conduct in this passage for those people who have His Spirit. He urges us to keep our minds filled with the concept of God’s control over everything, which means that a disciple must maintain an attitude of perfect trust and an eagerness to ask and seek.
Fill your mind with the thought that God is there. And once your mind is truly filled with that thought, when you experience difficulties it will be as easy as breathing for you to remember, ‘My Heavenly Father knows all about this!’ This will be no effort at all, but will be a natural thing for you when difficulties and uncertainties arise. Before you formed this concept of divine control so powerfully in your mind, you used to go from person to person seeking help, but now you go to God about it. Jesus is laying down the rules of conduct for those people who Have His Spirit, and it works on the following principle: God is my Father, He loves me, and I will never think of anything that He will forget, so why should I worry?
Jesus said there are times when God cannot lift the darkness from you, but you should trust Him. At times God will appear like an unkind friend, but He is not; He will appear like an unnatural father, but He is not; He will appear like an unjust judge, but He is not. Keep the thought that the mind of God is behind all things strong and growing. Not even the smallest detail of life happens unless God’s will is behind it. Therefore, you can rest in perfect confidence in Him. Prayer is not only asking, but is an attitude of the mind which produces the atmosphere is which asking is perfectly natural. ‘Ask, and it will be given to you…’ (7:7).”
Soli Deo Gloria!
Insert: Matthew 7:11, just one verse amongst 17 with the same them, supporting His Truth… I have this filed in the prayer kit but I am going to add it to the “starter kit…” category as well.
07/05/2025 – “Our conviction: the Bible is the infallible Word of God! Do we really believe what we say we believe is really true? Attached – 17 bible verses : Our Lord’s promises on “prayer”. So, what is our key takeaway?
| | Our conviction: The Bible is the infallible Word of God! |
| | – Do we really believe what we say we believe is really true? |
| | – Take a look at what Jesus said about prayer! (Bible Verses below) |
| | – If we truly believed it, wouldn’t we be praying more fervently and more often in revival groups? |
| How many verses that repeat the same theme? | |
| John 15:7 | If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. |
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| Matthew 7: 7-8 | Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened . |
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| John 15:16 | You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. |
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| 1 John 5:15 | And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. |
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| Matthew 7: 11 | If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! |
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| John 14: 13-14 | And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me anything in my name, and I will do it. |
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| John 16: 23-24 | In that day you will not ask Me anything. I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. Until now you have asked for nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, that your joy may be complete. |
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| Mark 11:24 | Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. |
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| Matthew 21:22 | And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. |
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| Daniel 6:10 | Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. |
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| James 4:3 | You ask and don’t receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend it on your desires for pleasure. |
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| Isaiah 59:2 | But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have made Him hide his face from you so that He does not listen. |
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| Hebrews 11:6 | And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. |
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| James 5:16 | Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. |
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| John 16:24 | Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask and you will receive, that your joy may be complete. |
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| John 9:31 | We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him. |
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| Matthew 4:6 | Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made know to God. |