"Ask, and it will be given you.
Seek, and you will find.
Knock, and it will be opened for you.
For everyone who asks receives.
He who seeks finds.
To him who knocks it will be opened.
Or who is there among you, who,
if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
If you then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father who is in heaven
give good things to those who ask him!
Therefore whatever you desire
for men to do to you,
you shall also do to them;
for this is the Torah and the Prophets." MATT. 7:1-5


How much do you want God to answer your prayer? Do you cry out to him with an importunate pleading? Ask. Seek. Knock. Receive. Find. Open. His infinite love for you is without limit. Even a tenacious child is heard through an incessant entreaty. When you reach the end of yourself and turn to God, He begins a miraculous intervention. Come to God on your knees, trusting him fully, relying on him solely to hear and respond. Do you want to see your prayers answered? Turning your cares over to God makes room for you to love others and to treat them in the manner you hope to be treated as well.

Precious Father, hear my heartfelt plea. I am at my wit's end. There is nothing left for me to do, no one else I can turn to, nowhere else to go. You've got to help. Bless me, keep me from evil and give me a pure heart with pure motives. May I give what I don't have. When I feel unloved, may I love. I will love others as I want to be loved.

"Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, 'Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow!' God granted him that which he requested." ~ "Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law." ~ "Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen." ~ "Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him."
2 Chronicles 4:10; Romans 13:8; Hebrews 11:1-6