MIDNIGHT VISITOR

FISH DINNER IN GALILIEE

What if your best friend arrived from a long journey at midnight.  He is hungry and knocks on your door asking for some food?

"And he said to them, If any of you had a friend, and went to him at midnight and said to him, Friend, lend me three loaves, because a friend of mine has come from a journey to me and I have nothing to set before him,"   Luke 11:5-6  NMB

Would you tell your friend to be quiet; I'll wake everyone up if I get you some bread?

"and the man inside were to answer and say, Don’t trouble me; the door is now shut, and my servants are with me in the chamber; I cannot rise and give them to you – "  Luke 11:7  NMB

Because his friend was persistent and wouldn't leave without some bread; he got up and gave him what he wanted.

"I say to you, though he would not arise and give him a loaf because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he would rise and give him as many as he needed."   Luke 11:8  NMB

We are like the midnight visitor asking our Father in heaven for what we need.

"And so I say to you: ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."  Luke 11:9  NMB

Would we have received anything if we didn't come to the Father's house seeking, knocking and asking?

"For everyone that asks, receives, and he that seeks, finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened."   

Luke 11:10  NMB

If you asked your parents for bread, are they going to served you a rock?  Or if you ask for a fish dinner, are you going to get a snake?   Or if you ask for an egg for breakfast, are they going to give you a scorpion?

"If the son asks for bread from any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for fish, will he give him a serpent for a fish?"   "Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?"   

Luke 11:11-12  NMB

The human nature of man is evil; but they would give only the best for their children.  

GOD's nature is good.  Your Father in heaven desires to give the gift of the Holy Spirit for those who knock, seek and ask him.

"If you then who are evil can give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father of heaven give a holy spirit to those who desire it of him?" 

Luke 11:13  NMB (New Matthew Bible)