"And I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened…your heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:9-10, 13)
Before the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus it was necessary for the Jewish people to ask, seek, and knock to access the power of God to meet their needs. After the resurrection of Jesus ,all power in heaven and earth was given Jesus and He is now does the asking…
"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that it may be with you for the age; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see it or know it, but you know it because it abides with you and will be in you.” (John 14:16-17)
Jesus asked the Father to give the power (holy spirit) to the Jews who believed the truth that Jesus is the Messiah. The power would abide in them, and on Pentecost, 50 days after His resurrection, the gift of this power came and settled on those early Jewish believers…
“When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place…and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.” (Acts 1:1-4)
Those Jews then begin to speak to the Jews coming from all over the world to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Weeks. By this power they spoke to them in the various languages (tongues) of these Jewish travelers. They told them about Messiah Jesus, His death and resurrection, and His ascension back to the throne of God. And the really good news of His promised return.
The gift of that power was withdrawn from the Jewish Nation at the close of the book of Acts. The Apostle Paul then went all Nations with the Gospel of Grace, the good news of the "salvation" of all humanity through Christ Jesus…
“After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews…trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening…and when they did not agree with one another, they began leaving after Paul had spoken one parting word, "The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers, saying you will keep on hearing but will not understand and you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive...therefore let it be known to you that this SALVATION of God has been sent to the nations…”
The Jewish nation is still in unbelief to this day. Yet, for individual believers in this era, the power of God still helps us in our weakness and prayers, and, the Jesus Himself, intercedes on our behalf according to the will of God the Father.
“…the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit…intercedes for the saints according to THE WILL OF GOD….Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also INTERCEDES for us...neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:26-38)
I take one day a time, trying not to forget that regardless of what goes on around the world, "nothing" can separate me and my family from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.