Today's Lenten Devotion - Thursday, March 5, 2026

 

Thursday – March 5

Scripture: Matthew 7:7–12

Ask.  Seek.  Knock.

Prayer is active engagement with God, not passive resignation.  To ask is to admit need.  To seek is to pursue alignment.  To knock is to expect response.

Jesus assures us that God is not reluctant.

Yet prayer reshapes the one praying.  We begin asking for outcomes; we end discovering transformation.

In dreaming the church to be more aligned with Christ, prayer is not peripheral.  It is central.  We do not simply strategize; we discern.

The Golden Rule follows—do to others as you would have them do to you.  Prayer and ethics intertwine.

The more we pray, the more we recognize shared humanity.

Reflection Questions

1. What am I truly asking of God?
2. How does prayer reshape my desires?
3. Where can I embody the Golden Rule today?