Luke 11:9

Ask, Seek, Knock

⁸ I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs. ⁹ “So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Seek and You Will Find

O God

Luke

Matthew 21:22

And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Psalm 118:5

I called to the Lord in distress;
the Lord answered me
and put me in a spacious place.

Mark 11:24

Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received them, and you will have them.

John 14:13

Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 15:7

If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.

John 15:16

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

John 16:23-24

In that day you will not ask Me anything.

“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

James 1:5

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.

1 John 3:22

and can receive whatever we ask from Him because we keep His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.

1 John 5:14-15

Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

Psalm 27:4

I have asked one thing from the Lord;
it is what I desire:
to dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
gazing on the beauty of the Lord
and seeking Him in His temple.

Psalm 27:8

My heart says this about You,
“You are to seek My face.”
Lord, I will seek Your face.

Psalm 34:4

I sought the Lord, and He answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 34:10

Young lions lack food and go hungry,
but those who seek the Lord
will not lack any good thing.

Psalm 50:15

Call on Me in a day of trouble;
I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

Psalm 105:3-4

Honor His holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

Song of Songs 3:1-4

In my bed at night
I sought the one I love;
I sought him, but did not find him.

Song of Songs 5:6

I opened to my love,
but my love had turned and gone away.
I was crushed that he had left.
I sought him, but did not find him.
I called him, but he did not answer.

Isaiah 45:19

I have not spoken in secret,
somewhere in a land of darkness.
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:
Seek Me in a wasteland.
I, Yahweh, speak truthfully;
I say what is right.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call to Him while He is near.

Jeremiah 29:12

You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.

Daniel 9:3

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Amos 5:4-6

For the Lord says to the house of Israel:

Seek Me and live!

Matthew 6:29

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these!

Matthew 7:7-11

“Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 21:31

“Which of the two did his father’s will?”

“The first,” they said.

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you!

Mark 13:37

And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Be alert!”

Luke 13:24-25

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able

John 1:45-49

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth!”

John 4:10

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

Acts 10:4-6

Looking intently at him, he became afraid and said, “What is it, lord?”

The angel told him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have come up as a memorial offering before God.

Romans 2:7

eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality;

2 Corinthians 6:2

For He says:

I heard you in an acceptable time,
and I helped you in the day of salvation.

Look, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation.

2 Corinthians 12:8-9

Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times to take it away from me.

Hebrews 4:16

Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.

Hebrews 11:6

Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.

James 5:15

The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will restore him to health; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Revelation 2:24

I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known the deep things of Satan—as they say—I do not put any other burden on you.