Ask Exhortation by Dad!

 Dad and I have the same exhortation today! Praise Jesus! :D 🩵🩵🩵

Dear Dad’s (Randall Hartinger) VITAL teaching for today. Hope you get that BLESSING!

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ASK = PRAY. PRAY = ASK. 

07/07 Daily Exhortation (Heb.3:13; 10:25; Matt.6:11; Luke 11:3).

  

Here on 7/7 is a 7:7 CONSTRUCTION for INSTRUCTION to follow… 

Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you…

Note the Acronym here. ASK, SEEK, AND KNOCK. “A” as in ASK, “S” as in SEEK, “K” as in KNOCK.  This planned providence of God reinforces ASK. To ask is to PRAY. To pray is to ask.

Watch the order here. The order is spirit, soul, and body.  Man always gets this backwards, judging first by outward appearance and carnally. Many a book, many a sermon, has been on “body soul spirit” in the wrong order. Watch the Bible birdie: 

1 Thessalonians 5:23 says, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I PRAY God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 

The spirit is the HEART of man. 1 Corinthians 2 describes the deep things of a man to be his spirit and the Deep things of God to be God’s Spirit. 

Psalms 42:7 says “Deep calleth unto deep…” One application is that our spirit calls unto the Spirit of God. 

Ecclesiastes 7:28 says “Which yet my soul seeketh…” And Song of Solomon 3:2 says, “I will seek him whom my soul loveth…” 

Lastly, our body would “knock” on a door. We lift up holy hands in prayer per: 

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting…

Also, there is bowing knees before God: 

Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...

So, to ask, seek, and knock is to put one’s whole anatomy of SPIRIT, SOUL, AND BODY into prayer. 

Hebrews 11:6 says a pleasing faith to God is one that DILIGENTLY seeks Him. That word “diligently” is removed from the NASV corrupt translation. Somebody doesn’t want us to DILIGENTLY seek the Lord. 

TWO years ago, on 7/7, my daughter, Hope, wondered if I would do an exhortation on Matthew 7:7 and she was correct. Last year 7/7 and this morning, I said to Hope, “What am I going to do an exhortation on?” She said, “Matthew 7:7.” Correct. Gotta love it. ;^) Hope looked at the time of 7:07 AM and thought of Matt. 7:7. My phone was at 77% this morning and the verse came to mind! Jesus REMINDS US always! 

THIS IS THE GOD WE SERVE. We owe HIM/JESUS our spirit, soul, and body in asking, seeking, and knocking this day, allowing deep to call unto Deep. 

Per Jesus, we are to pray/ask according to the word of God (John 15:7). There are 39 7:7 constructions in the Bible. This reminds us of the 39 books of the OT. 3x9=27 for the NT. The Bible is our PLUMBLINE to edify/build up. The “Word of His grace, which is able to build you up” (Acts 20:32) should be incorporated into your prayers.

Last year on 7/7, my Missing Rib and I were heading out to eat. Praying aloud down the mountain, I prayed “Psalms 71:1 – be it unto Heather according to thy word and let her never be put to confusion.” I also prayed about a certain class of people being confounded. Fast forward to the restaurant. Our custom is that when they give us a numbered table, to read the corresponding Psalm. They gave us 71 so we read Psalms 71 together which also contains “confounded” and of course – Psalms 71:1!!! DAILY *JESUS WALK.*

 Pray the Plumbline and your day will be straight and your paths straight as God loves to confirm His word. Here’s another 7:7…

Amos 7:7 (KJB) Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

Please never go a day without diligent ASKING, SEEKING, KNOCKING. If you are in sin, it will bounce off the ceiling. Get things right with God and your brethren. 

A.S.K.-ing today. How about YOU? -r <3