Asking, Seeking, Knocking Together | Kingdom Community Week 6 | 15 Mar 2026 | Abi Lycett

Maybe your faith is feeling like it's it's getting lower, it's running thin, But, hey, I will have the faith for you today. Hey, I know you're you're feeling pretty hopeless. Don't worry, I'll I'll hold you up. You can borrow some of my hope today. You can have some of my faith today. I think that's part of what what being family is about. It's not about going up to somebody and going, well, just keep praying. Just keep praying. How dare you believe that God is not good? Repent of your sin. I think it's about coming alongside and going, actually, yeah, I see it's really hard. I see it's really tough. Look, let me have some of my faith. I'm standing in this testimony that God is good. So here, let me believe on your behalf today that God is good. [00:12:47] (47 seconds)  #FaithForYou

the bishop who was sharing, she there was a phrase that she used that stuck in my mind all week, and she called it she was talking about slow cooker miracles. And and I just really loved that. I was like, wow. Yeah. So often, we want microwave miracles. Wanna just put it in two minutes later, pops out. But actually, I think God is so much more so much more often works in that slow cooker way. Things simmer for a little bit longer. And why? Who knows? Wouldn't we all like it to be instant? But actually, I think something happens in our heart, something happens in our internal life [00:08:10] (37 seconds)  #SlowCookerMiracles

So it's actually better translated, ask and keep on asking, seek and keep on seeking, knock and keep on knocking, and which I think when you read it like that, changes the perspective completely to to what this is saying and and what Jesus was saying at the time. So, yeah, rather than this thought of an instant ask and it will be given, the conversation comes about ask and keep on asking. And actually, then there's an assumption there that for many things, [00:05:03] (36 seconds)  #AskKeepAsking

for many things, things won't happen instantly. For for many prayers, we won't see the answers immediately. And sometimes we do, absolutely. God moves in the miraculous, and I'm sure many stories and testimonies are contained within this room of where we have asked, we have sought, we have knocked, and God has come through almost imminently, supernaturally, miraculously. But I think when we look at this and we read it as the asking, keep on asking, what it's saying to us is actually [00:05:37] (34 seconds)  #PatientPrayer

And I was also thinking that the concept of faith and the concept of hope is that you can't have faith for something that you are already seeing. You can't hope for something that you already have. It's not it's not hope then. You hope until you have it. But faith is the assurance of things hoped for. So to have faith, there is this tension of of this eager longing and waiting within the word of faith. If we saw it right here and right now, we wouldn't need faith for it. And so there is in that sense of, actually, what is God calling us to hope for? And how can we have faith in those things, trusting in God's goodness? [00:21:32] (45 seconds)  #FaithAndHope

And I think I've sometimes, in my life, have been waiting for things, asking for things, and things haven't quite worked out how I planned or taken a different journey, taken a different route. And I've definitely then gone, okay, well, that was a really painful experience. So you know what? I'll have low expectations next time. And then I'll be pleasantly surprised when something beautiful happens, but as a way to to protect my own heart from the pain, to protect my own heart from the disappointment. But actually, was then convicted of, well, then, Abby, if you're not hoping for anything, where's your faith? And I was like, oh, wow, yeah, my faith is that God is just someone who's gonna meet my lower expectations. [00:22:17] (46 seconds)  #KeepHopeHigh

Let's not just keep having faith and holding on for the promise. Let's remember the one who keeps the promises. Let's keep asking that we would know him more. Let's keep seeking to find him more. Let's keep, you know, knocking on that door of heaven asking that we would see his face, that we would know his glory, that we would be a people of his presence that carry his presence into to every area of our life. [00:25:49] (35 seconds)  #KnowHimMore

And kind of as I was thinking about this and and thinking about the ask and keep on asking, I was thinking, okay, but what there there actually are in the bible. There are stories of people that have asked all their life, have kept seeking all their life, have kept knocking all their life, have have walked the journey with faithfulness, not letting go of the belief that God is good. But actually, they never received the promise, in the words of Hebrews. But they they choose to keep carrying it for the generation that is to come. And I find that really challenging actually because, we all wanna we all wanna see what we wanna see. Right? We all wanna see the breakthrough. We all wanna see the fulfillment of God's word. Of course, we do. [00:18:35] (54 seconds)  #GenerationalFaith