This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson. I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of New Heights
Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo and you're receiving this message because you opted in to be
encouraged. I'm thinking today of Matthew 7-8. This is what it says. It says,
for everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds and him who knocks it will be open.
And basically Jesus is speaking here and he's making a statement about how this is essentially the way it
works in all creation. It shouldn't really be as any surprise to us that we think that God is just
going to visit blessings upon us in a certain area of our life if we don't ask. Even though God knows,
yes he knows, but the fundamental bottom line of the way things work is people ask and then they
receive. They seek and they find, they knock and it's opened. So in other words, we have a part to play.
It's a part to play in any good thing that's going to happen in our lives. Hopelessness, depression,
struggling will restrain us from playing that part. But remembering what this verse says will remind us
that we can ask, we can seek and we can knock. And I would suggest asking, seeking and knocking
first with the Lord that God would give us what it is that he truly wants for us. In fact it says
elsewhere, seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things should be added unto you. And so
seek first the kingdom of God and you'll find it. So seek, ask, knock. That's the way the world works.
Join us Sunday, this Sunday after service at New Heights Fellowship for our sixth anniversary. Now
we've been going for almost 20 years but six years ago we constituted as a church at New Heights
Fellowship Baptist Church and this Sunday afternoon after service we'll be cooking burgers on the grill,
having cotton candy, snow cones, popcorn, some drawings and things. Join us then, probably starting
around 2, but you're welcome to join us at service at 1130. Join us at service at 1130 if you possibly
can and then stay. The cookout will be starting at 2. God bless you.