Ask the Father for Good Gifts

Passage: Matthew 7:7-11

I recently heard about a person who doesn’t ask God for things in prayer for himself.  He feels that God has already given him so much that he shouldn’t be asking for more.  Jesus disagrees.  In our text Jesus implores us to pray six times in six ways.

ASK – Ask, Seek, Knock.

Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Jesus makes an incredible promise here, one that seems dangerously open-ended.  Our first impression is this sounds like a blank check.

Can you imagine if a very rich person handed you a signed blank check and said fill in whatever amount you want?  Is that what Jesus is saying here?  Ask, seek, and knock, for anything and it will be given to you?  Anything?