For July 24th:

“How much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?” Matthew 7:11

            “Jesus is laying down rules of conduct for those who have His spirit. By the simple argument of these verses He urges us to keep our minds filled with the notion of God’s control behind everything, which means that the disciple must maintain an attitude of perfect trust and an eagerness to ask and seek.

            Notion your mind with the idea that God is there. If once the mind is notioned along that line, then when you are in difficulties it is easy as breathing to remember—Why , my Father knows all about it! It is not an effort, it comes naturally when the perplexities press. Before, you used to go to this person and that, but now the notion of the Divine control is forming so powerfully in you that you go to God about it. Jesus is laying down the rules of conduct for those who have His Spirit, and it works on this principle—God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, why should I worry?

            …Prayer is not only asking, but ann attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural. ‘Ask, and it shall be given to you.’”

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, 1963