 Ask and it will be given. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives. And him who seeks, finds. And him who knocks, the door will be opened. The Apostle James in James 4 verse 2 says this, You do not have because you do not ask God. And when you ask, you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives that you may spend what you want on your pleasures.