FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God that says ask is the evidence of provision in place.

1 Samuel 1

Hannah engaged the word of God to experience her open-door breakthrough.
God wastes no word.
Perceive the word of God (be aware of His word); receive His word into your life; give prudence, and then understanding will bring forth a knowing edge.
With a knowing edge in place, open doors come to life.
The word of God declares, “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Luke 11:9)  
Are you experiencing closed doors in any area of life?
Hannah experienced a closed door, but she engaged the word of God, and the open door answered on her behalf. 1 Samuel 1:6 records, “…although the LORD had closed her womb.” Without any distraction, Hannah asked, sought, and knocked to have her door opened by the mercy of God.
Hannah had all the comfort from her husband Elkanah, but the comfort from her husband could not keep her silent from seeking God for her opened door. Hannah refused to waste away because she needed to possess her possessions in the Lord.
The word of God is a command.
The word of God represents a key in the hand of one to insert, turn, and push a door to open. However, when all one can do is insert and not turn nor push, one is bound to fail and not get the door opened.
God meant all of what He said and the ones He is still saying for those who will take to work the word of God by walking in His word (believing His word).
God wants His word to be received and operated for an effective and infallible result that is undeniable.
The word of God saying ask is evidence there is provision for every need and know to ask.
It is asking that will bring forth the provision.
He also said seek because He enjoys being sought for in times of desperation because He alone is God.
In seeking Him, He will not hide from one who seeks Him diligently.
The command for all to knock where there is a need is to gain entrance to a closed door in an area of life.
Often, believers limit themselves by asking only and not seeking or seeking and not knocking when the situation demands asking, seeking, and knocking.
Hannah was going to Shiloh every year with a pressing need, but her situation changed when “…her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the LORD had closed her womb. So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.” (1 Samuel 1:6-7)
Hannah came out of complacency and stepped up into asking, seeking, and knocking.
God opened her womb, and she had Samuel.
Hannah testifies to naming Samuel meaning, “Because I have asked for him from the Lord.” (1 Samuel 1:20)

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to remain constant in asking, seeking, and knocking before God.