These verses hold one of the greatest promises in the bible and also one of most misused. What is Jesus really promising when he promises that “everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened?” He’s promising that when we ask for and keep asking for his empowering to live out the things to which we have been called in the sermon on the mount, if we seek and keep seeking for God, if we knock and keep knocking on the throne room of heaven we can be assured he will answer.