FAITH CAPSULE: Asking will deliver answering as a solution to a question.
Daniel 3
The book of Matthew 7:7-8 informs, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
The word of Jesus informs all there is no unfailing answer.
The responses for answering, seeking, or knocking are YES, WAIT, or NO.
Are you waiting for an answer to your asking, seeking of knocking?
Do you know to wait for an answer without giving up not to gain expectations?
The key to waiting is to wait patiently.
David testifies to his waiting experience before God, stating, “I waited patiently for the Lord, And He inclined to me and heard my cry.” (Psalmm 40:1)
In the New Testament, James gave an analogy of waiting patiently on waiting for expectation before God.
James 5:7 records, “Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.”
Know to be waiting patiently to get an answer from God.
What is stopping you from asking from God?
Can it be that you are asking from God in doubt?
One with boldness and character in the word of God will know to ask from God and not doubt but receive from God.
The three friends of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, had the knowledge of God in His word that built boldness and character to ask with expectation.
When three friends refused to serve or worship the gold image, marked with an untimely death by the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, the word of God answered for them as a garment of deliverance.
Daniel 3:16-18 records, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” The answer to the three friends prompted deliverance from death in the burning fiery fire.
In life, asking will deliver an answer.
How are you asking from God in your time of challenges?
Are you asking wrongly?
The Bible makes all realize the possibility of asking wrongly. James 4:3 states, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
Three friends asked by seeking God for His glory in their deliverance.
Asking of three friends delivered them from untimely and sudden death in a burning fire as the unbeliever Nebuchadnezzar testified the glory of God.
Prayer for today: Pray to be praying from the depth of your heart, by the word of God.