Ask – It Shall be Given

The Lord suggested when He was One with Jesus, that if we would pray to the Father to let His Kingdom come, His holy Kingdom from above called Jerusalem, the Kingdom would come to us from the Father. But as it was in that day, so it is today, asking for the Kingdom without faith that God will let His Kingdom come, is vanity. And all of your asking is in vain.

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8, KJV).

When you go into your closet to pray in secret to the Father, do you ask in faith for our Father to let His Kingdom come to you from heaven? Do you seek the Kingdom of God from above called Jerusalem? Or do you ask our Father for things of the world? Choosing to enter the wide gate that leadeth to destruction?

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” (Matthew 7:13-14, KJV).

The gate is wide, and the way that leads to Satan’s kingdom of darkness called Babylon, the way that leads to destruction, is easy. But the gate is straight, and the way that leads to God’s Kingdom from above called Jerusalem, the gift of Eternal Life in the Holy Spirit, is difficult, not easy. Which is why only a few there be that find it.

God, speaking from His holy Temple in the flesh and blood body of Jesus, had this to say concerning His coming from heaven:

“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:44, KJV).

I was drawn to God only because our Father had called me from the womb to play the role of God’s servant to come called Elijah. But God was trying to get Jesus’ disciples to understand that while it was the Father who drew them to Him, and He chose them to follow the Lamb, that He was the One who would raise them from the dead, whether in that first resurrection from the dead, when Jesus will come into His Kingdom for the millennial reign of peace and will judge both the living and the dead from the house of Israel, the dead from the house of Israel that God will raise in that day, or in that second resurrection from the dead, when Jesus’ millennial reign of peace will come to an end, and all authority will be given back to God for the final great white throne judgment.

After Jesus had been resurrected from the dead and caught up to where He is today, at the right hand of the Lord God Almighty, God used Jesus to give John visions by a spirit of Jesus’, while he was on the Island of Patmos, to help John understand the difference between the living God and Jesus:

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.” (Revelation 1:1-2, KJV).

This is how the angel described the living God to John:

“His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.” (Revelation 1:14-15, KJV).

God gave John this vision to help him see the difference between the God of his fathers and the Lamb of God, of which he had been in the presence of both, when he was a disciple of Jesus. And one can see that by the time you get to the fifth chapter of the book of Revelation, John begins to give a clear distinction between Jesus and God:

“And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.” (Revelation 5:1-14, KJV).

The gate is wide open for those that put their trust in the world, rather than putting their trust in God by seeking ye first the Kingdom of God. Recognizing, that in the hands of Jesus, the Prince of Peace in the Kingdom of heaven, but a great high Priest in the living Church of the living God, the Kingdom represents the Body of Christ, a Church that is invisible to the human-eye.

God warned Israel when they came up out of Egypt, that after remaining long in the good land they would go in to possess, they would eventually corrupt themselves and worship other gods. And He promised that in the day when that would happen:

“I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.” (Deuteronomy 4:26, KJV);

God also promised that all would be forgiven if they repented and sought Him from wherever He would scatter them:

“But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.” (Deuteronomy 4:29, KJV).

God is always willing and able to send the Kingdom to you from the Father, for all who seek the Kingdom by faith. The key to finding God is to believe and to seek Him with all our hearts and souls.

We have not the Kingdom because we ask not for the Kingdom:

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8, KJV).

God, speaking from His holy Temple in the flesh and blood body of Christ, was in essence saying that as long as you have faith, and I am a living witness, all you have to do to receive His everlasting Kingdom from above called Jerusalem, is… “Ask – It Shall be Given.”