East Ridge Pres

Luke 11 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. In prayer you ask for what you already have. Prayer is something like eating. As long as food is outside your body it does you no good. You may possess the food, but it is not nourishing you. prayer is like eating. In Jesus Christ you already have everything you need. It is all yours in Christ. You only must ask. Then in the moment you are nourished by all you have in Christ. We are not asking for what God does not want to give. We are asking for what God has already given us. If we ask, we receive. When we don’t ask, we are no longer nourished by the blessing of all we have. Christ is with us already but until we pray we can’t find him. Then when we seek him in prayer, we find the one who was already there with us. Like the man sleeping next to his wife in bed, who dreams his wif