“For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. The universal scope — everyone who asks, the one who seeks, to the one who knocks — communicates that the responsive Father is not selective in his responsiveness. The pattern of petition, seeking, and knocking is the pattern of persistent, genuine, kingdom-oriented prayer, and this pattern reliably produces the outcomes the Father has promised. The certainty of the outcome is grounded in the character of the Father (verses 9–11), not in the persistence of the petitioner alone. 1 John 5:14 says we have confidence before God that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
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