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‘It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.’ “Invictus,” William Ernest Henley

Themes in the Sermon: • God as Father • ‘your Father knows what you need before you ask him.’ (6:8) • ‘For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them’ (6:32). • Trust versus anxiety

‘Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.’ Matthew 7:7,8

‘Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.’ Matthew 7:7, New Living Translation

“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Matthew 7:9-11

‘The wonder of God is not only that he won’t give you stones when you ask for bread, but that he won’t even give you stones when you ask for stones.’ Gerard Kelly

‘… give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonour the name of my God.’ Proverbs 30:8b,9

‘…do to others what you would have them do to you.’ Matthew 7:12