“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
BEN FRANKLIN

Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.
MATTHEW 7:7-8 NLT

Do you want to have an effective prayer life? Keep on asking. Do you feel that there is something missing in your life and you can’t seem to find it? Keep on looking. Do you sometimes you feel that certain doors and opportunities have been closed or not available anymore? Keep on knocking. When we continue to ask God even when we have no results of the prayers being answered, it is like sowing seed. If it is in God’s will what we ask, eventually some of the seeds will germinate. Seeds don’t germinate overnight. God may send someone else to water, someone else to nourish, and yet someone else to bring light. I have noticed that God many times in my life works through other people, so when I have hopes of things spiritual or material, I keep sowing seed in that direction. I have noticed in the natural world that not all seeds germinate. Two weeks ago I started one hundred and forty-four tomato plants from some seeds that I saved from last years harvest. That may seem like a large number of tomato plants, but I have a large garden and usually plant between seventy and one hundred tomato plants. I just went and counted and I have twenty-seven that have germinated and are up and enjoying the sunlight this morning. It is possible that all the seeds will germinate but most times, there are some that don’t. I have noticed that in my prayer life I don’t get all the answers that I expect, so I am learning from the words of Jesus to keep praying, keep sowing, and some will produce fruit. From my own experiences I have learned that often I don’t get things the first time I ask, seek or knock. I am also learning not to give up or quit so easily. My sobriety did not come about the first time I decided to quit alcohol and drugs. I knew that I was out of control and that it was in God’s will for me to live a better life, but I didn’t just jump to the sober side of life overnight. Over years of jumping the fence from the sober side to the drunken side of life, I finally sowed enough seeds in the fertile ground of God’s unfailing love to get rooted and take a stand. Today I realize that I can grow any direction I want. I can choose to head back to the drunk side of life if I have that desire. But, I am learning to take it one day at a time, get my nourishment from God’s Word and sow seeds in the lives of others from this side of the fence. Today I enjoy the sunlight of God’s love and realize that God has done for me what I could not do for myself……JRE

“Seek God early in the day, before He gets crowed out by life’s problems, difficulties, or pleasures. In that early quiet time gain a clam, strong confidence in the goodness and purpose in the universe. Do not seek God only when the world’s struggles prove too much and too many for you to bear or face alone. Seek God early, when you can have a consciousness of God’s spirit in the world. People often only seek God when their difficulties are too great to be surmounted in any other way, forgetting that if they sought God’s companionship before they need it, many of their difficulties would never arise.”
HAZELDEN……………..Twenty-Four Hours A Day