| Sept.05.03:
Light For The Day - "The Difference" -- Matthew 7:7 (NIVUS)) "Ask and it will be given to you; Seek and you will find; Knock and the door will be opened to you." ------------------------ "The Difference" I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day; I had so much to accomplish that I didn't have time to pray, Problems just tumbled about me, and heavier came each task. "Why doesn't God help me?" I wondered. He answered, "You didn't ask." I wanted to see joy and beauty, but the day toiled on, gray and bleak; I wondered why God didn't show me. He said," But you didn't seek." I tried to come into God's presence; I used all my keys at the lock. God gently and lovingly chided, "My child you didn't knock." I woke up early this morning, and paused before entering the day; I had so much to accomplish that I had to take time to pray. -- Grace L. Naessens ------------------ -- Psalms 50:15 "Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me." -- Matthew 7:7-11 (NLT) 7 "Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened. 8 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks. 9 You parents-if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? 10 Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! 11 If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask Him." -- Psalms 145:18 (NKJV) "The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth. 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them. -- Jeremiah 29:12,13 (NKJV) Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. -- Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV) 'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.' |