“I tell you,” he says, “ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you” (verse 9). What will God give to those who ask?

When we pray to God and bring our petitions before him, and then say in earnest “thy will be done,” how should we expect God to respond? Is asking God to overrule our will with his own admitting that he may actually bring us harm?

Jesus answers when he asks rhetorically, “What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?” (Luke 11:11-12).

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