c

  


  
 


You know how it is when you go through the fast-food chain and the lady at the counter says, Do
you want to Biggie-Size your french-fries? What does that mean? It means you want more.
Normally after eating it, don¶t you feel full?

I am suggesting to you today that you Biggie-Size your prayers, your walk, your attitude, your
hunger, your desire to serve. your praise and worship, YOUR EVERYTHING.
 c!!!"#!
1. We can ASK ± SEEK ± KNOCK
? huke 11:9-10 "And so I tell you, 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. (10) For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And
the door is opened to everyone who knocks.
? Ask - seek - knock - These three words include the ideas of want, loss, and
earnestness.
VAsk: turn, beggar at, the door of mercy; you are poor of all spiritual good,
and it is God alone who can give it to you; and you have no claim but
what his mercy has given you itself.
VAsk with confidence and humility.
? Seek: You have lost God - hook about you - leave no stone unturned there is no
peace, no final salvation for you until thou get your soul restored to the favor and
image of God.
VSeek with care and application.
? Knock: Be intense - be persistent: Eternity is at hand! and, if you die in your sins,
where God is you will never be.
VKnock with earnestness and perseverance.
? Why don¶t you have it yet?
VÎames 4:2b-3 and yet the reason you don¶t have what you want is that you
don¶t ask God for it. (3) And even when you do ask, you don¶t get it
because your whole motive is wrong-you want only what will give you
pleasure
V*salms 42:1-2 NhT As the deer pants for streams of water, so I long for
you, O God. (2) I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and
stand before him?
X By these comparisons of the thirst and panting, he shows his
fervent desire to serve God in his temple
? *salms 63:1 NhT O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul
thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land
where there is no water.
 VEarly - Heb. in the morning, which implies the doing it with diligence and
speed.
VThirsts - For the enjoyment of Your in the house and ordinances.
VFlesh - The desire of my soul is so intense, that my very body feels the
effects of it.
VNo water - In a land where I want the refreshing waters of the sanctuary.
? *salms 105:3-4 NhT Exult in his holy name; O worshipers of the hORD, rejoice!
(4) Search for the hORD and for his strength, and keep on searching.
VSeek the hord - Worship the one only Supreme Being, as the only and all-
sufficient good for the soul of man.
VAnd his strength - Man is weak; and needs connection with the strong God
that he may be enabled to avoid evil and do good.
VSeek his face - Reconciliation to him. hive not without a sense of his
favor.
VEvermore - het this be thy chief business. In and above all thy seeking,
seek this.
? Is that your attitude toward knowing God? Is it like that of a man parched with
thirst, traveling through the desert, whose mind and heart and body are consumed
with an intense desire for water? Hear what the Scriptures say about the necessity
of seeking God in this way:
VDeuteronomy 4:29 NhT From there you will search again for the hORD
your God. And if you search for him with all your heart and soul, you will
find him.
X God is long suffering, and of tender mercy; and waits, ever ready,
to receive a backsliding soul when it returns to him.

ü
#$c%& #
? 2Timothy 4:17 - But the hord stood with me and gave me strength, that I might preach
the Good News in all its fullness for all the Gentiles to hear. And he saved me from
certain death.
V The hord stood with me
X When all human help failed, God, in a more remarkable manner,
interposed; and thus the Excellency plainly appeared to be of God, and not
of man.
V That by me the preaching might be fully known
X When called on to make his defense he took occasion to preach the
Gospel, and to show that the great God of heaven and earth had designed
to illuminate the Gentile world with the rays of his light and glory. This
must have endeared him to some, while others might consider him an
opposer of their gods, and be the more incensed against him.
V I was saved from certain death. (hion) - I escaped the imminent danger at that
time. *robably he was seized in a disorderly manner, and expected to be torn to
pieces. The Greek words to be rescued from the mouth or jaws of the lion, are a
proverbial form of speech for deliverance from the most imminent danger.
 ? Îeremiah 17:5-10 NhT This is what the hORD says: "Cursed are those who put their trust
in mere humans and turn their hearts away from the hORD. (6) They are like stunted
shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness,
on the salty flats where no one lives. (7) "But blessed are those who trust in the hORD
and have made the hORD their hope and confidence. (8) They are like trees planted
along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered
by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they go
right on producing delicious fruit. (9) "The human heart is most deceitful and desperately
wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? (10) But I know! I, the hORD, search all hearts
and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their
actions deserve."
V Shall not see - Or, ³shall not fear Îer_17:6.´ God¶s people feel trouble as much as
other people, but they do not fear it because they know.
X that it is for their good, and
X that God will give them strength to bear it.
X If the man is so blessed Îer_17:7-8 who trusts in Yahweh, what is the
reason why men so generally ³make flesh their arm´? And the answer is:
Because man¶s heart is incapable of seeing things in a straightforward
manner, but is full of shrewd guile, and ever seeking to overreach others.
X Desperately wicked - Rather, mortally sick, Hardened by Sin
X What there actions deserve - Reaping and sowing
? Matthew 6:33-34 NhT and he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for
him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern. (34) "So don¶t worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today¶s trouble is enough for today.
V Seek first His kingdom; seek first to be righteous, and to become interested in His
favor, and all necessary things will be added to you.
V He has control over all things, and He can give you what you need. He will give
you what he deems best for you.


#!#'&'(&'! $#!'
? Worship is not something that we merely observe or attend
V Worship is something in which we actively participate.
V Since we are not its object, any benefit that we derive from it is a gracious gift of
our Father.
V Our purpose in worship is to return to God a portion of what He has given us, to
offer "ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a holy, living, and acceptable
sacrifice."
? The Nature of Worship
V In worship, we take part in the holy mystery of ascending into Heaven to
approach God and commune with Him.
 V At the special occasion of approaching our King in His throne room, our attitudes
and actions, as well as the décor, sounds, and scents, should be reverent, regal,
majestic, and pleasing by His standards.
V The worship of God is for the people of God.

å
$'% $!(
? *hilippians 4:6-7 NhT Don¶t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell
God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. (7) If you do this, you will
experience God¶s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can
understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Îesus.
V Be careful for nothing ± Don¶t anxious or worried about the things of the present
life
X It does not mean that we are to exercise no care about worldly matters - no
care to preserve our property, or to provide for our families
X We are to be in such confidence in God as to free the mind from anxiety,
and such a sense of dependence on him as to keep it calm
V But in everything ±
X Everything in reference to the supply of your wants, and the wants of your
families.
X Everything in respect to afflictions, embarrassments, and trials.
X Everything relating to your spiritual condition.
X There is nothing which pertains to body, mind, estate, friends, conflicts,
losses, trials, hopes, fears, in reference to which we may not go and spread
it all out before the hord.
? With thanksgiving - Thanksgiving connected with prayer. We can always find something
to be thankful for, no matter what
? het your request be made known unto God - Not as if you were to give him information,
but to express to him your wants.
V God needs not to be informed of our necessities, but he requires that we come and
express them to him;
V Compare this verse - Eze 36:37 "This is what the Sovereign hORD says: I am
ready to hear Israel¶s prayers for these blessings, and I am ready to grant them
their requests.

)
) * +
+,   
? If everyone attends like I do?
? If everyone gives like I do?
? If everyone arrives like I do?