SELDI Podcast with Tony Williams
Join Tony Williams as he empowers leaders worldwide to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, build life and career resilience, enhance personal attributes, and experience success God's way - a life and career filled with impact, purpose, joy, and fulfillment.
They will be like "a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers." Psalm 1:3
Tony Williams
Founder & CEO
The SELDI Company, Inc.
SELDI Podcast with Tony Williams
God Invites You To Ask, Seek, And Knock For His Best
God loves us unconditionally. He has provided everything we need for life and godliness, including everything we will face in our careers.
When we face obstacles on our journey to fulfilling our God-given goals, it's important to remember the power of faith and prayer. Jesus assures us that we can ask, seek, and knock, and we will receive what we need. Divine promises hold the incredible power to dynamically change our circumstances when combined with our faith and our prayers.
We share a powerful promise that "Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened to you." Mattew 7:7
Faith in God promises empowers us to move from vague and uncertain outcomes to the faithfulness of our Father in Heaven, transforming prayer from vague hope into purposeful action.
Rooted in Jesus' promise in Matthew 7:7-8 and illuminated by Mark 11, we explore how faith addresses obstacles. It's not just our faith, but also the guidance and support of the Holy Spirit that helps us prepare and move forward when God opens the way. The Holy Spirit is our constant companion, leading us, guiding us, and preparing us for the journey ahead.
We start with God's heart: unconditional love and a commitment to give His best, not leftovers. From there, we delve into the practical aspects of the Holy Spirit's presence within us. The Holy Spirit is our constant companion, guiding us, ordering our steps, and empowering us to pursue the goals God has helped us set. You'll hear how to ask for wisdom with clarity, seek resources with focus, and knock on closed doors with words of faith that align with God's will. We discuss why speaking to challenges matters, how doubt erodes authority, and what it looks like to expect God to act without trying to control the timeline.
Throughout, we emphasize the importance of preparation and obedience. When you believe God will open the door, you get ready: refine the plan, make the call, write the proposal, schedule the meeting. Then, when the door swings open, you walk through it in faith and give thanks. Along the way, we share how practicing time alone with God—using a pen, notebook, and a few verses—helps you hear God's direction for your life and work. Insight shared is insight multiplied, so we encourage you to pass on what you learn to someone who needs courage today.
If this message lifts your faith or meets you at a closed door, subscribe for more teachings, share this episode with a friend, and leave a review to help others find it. Tell us: what door are you knocking on this week? Is it a job opportunity that seems out of reach? A relationship that needs mending? A health issue that needs healing? Whatever it is, remember that God is on the other side of that door, ready to open it when the time is right.
Greetings, my friends. God loves us unconditionally, and because he loves us, he wants us to know that we can call on him at any time in our life and career. He makes a fantastic promise that's found in Matthew, the seventh chapter, verse 7, where Jesus speaks to us. He says, Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be open to you. And then he makes this marvelous statement, for everyone who asks receives. And he who seeks finds, and he who knocks, the door will be open to him. What a magnificent promise that he wants you to hear this day as you listen to this message wherever you are in the world. This is the marvelous beauty of having a relationship with our Creator through his Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. When we have this relationship, a beautiful thing happens. The Spirit of God comes to live on the inside of us. And his Spirit on the inside of us leads and guides and shows us the way that we should go, in addition to empowering us to accomplish everything that we need for the goals that God has helped us to set. So wherever you are right now, if you're facing a challenge, God says, ask for my help. Is there something that you need? Is there wisdom or insight or a resource that you need? God said, seek it and you will find. Why does he say seek? Because he will order your steps, my friends. The Bible says our steps are ordered of the Lord. How then can we understand our way? When we ask God, we initiate supernatural connection with our Father in heaven. And through that supernatural relationship, his Spirit in us, His Spirit will lead us and guide us into all truth. Show us the way that we need to go when we seek His guidance and His direction. Knock. Is there a door that seems to be closed to you right now? God says, knock on the door, but we knock in faith, believing that God will open the door. Then not only does He say, knock on the door, Jesus tells us to speak to the closed doors in our lives. In Mark the 11th chapter, verse 20, it begins to give an account of Jesus cursing a fig tree. A tree that had no fruit, he said to the fig tree. He spoke to the fig tree. No one ever eat fruit from you again. His disciples heard this. They go by the tree the next day, and Peter says, Master, the tree you cursed is withered up from the roots. Listen to what Jesus says. Have faith in God constantly. You see, my friends, God simply wants us to believe Him and not doubt. He wants us to have faith in Him. Faith is what enables us to participate in the divine nature supernaturally through the promises that God makes. What God is sharing with us today is this promise in the message He says, ask, seek, knock, receive. Ask, seek, knock, receive. This is the process that God takes us through, that we take by faith, believing that what he says he will do. God loves you unconditionally. As his child, he is committed to giving you his best. He doesn't give you second hand or something that's used. He gives you his very best. So whatever you're facing right now, you can confidently ask God to help you. You can confidently seek whatever you need by asking the Holy Spirit who lives on the inside of you to guide you, lead you into all truth, bring to pass what you need at this particular phase of your life and career. And then knock. Speak to the closed door, just like Jesus spoke to the fig tree. He goes on to say in Mark the 11th chapter, Truly I say to you, if you say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will happen, you will receive it. You see, my friends, we have the authority through Jesus, through the Holy Spirit of God living on the inside of us to speak to the challenges and the roadblocks that seemingly stand in the way like mountains between us and accomplishing the goals that God has helped us to set. So I believe what God is saying to you, my friend, is exercise your authority. Ask him, seek him, and knock on that door. And if it's a closed door, speak with the authority of Jesus Christ through the power of his Holy Spirit in you to that closed door and watch what will happen. My friends, I thank God for you. I thank God for giving me this message for you because he wants you to be encouraged with the truth of who you are as a child of God and walk in that truth. Walk in that freedom and that liberty and that power that only God can give you supernaturally. We have a unique position all around the world when we ask Jesus to be our Savior and our Lord. That unique position says that God, his Spirit, the Holy Spirit comes to live on the inside of us. And God takes personal responsibility for all of his children. Regardless of what language you speak, regardless of what situation you're in right now, God sees it all and he says, I'm going to act in your behalf. And all you have to do is ask in faith. All you have to do is seek in faith, believing and not doubting, and knocking with the authority that I've given you, and watch the outcome. Expect it, anticipate, and prepare for God to open the door that you need and provide every resource that you need just in time for you to say, This is the Lord's doing, and it's marvelous in our sight. So, my friends, be encouraged. Go and read Matthew the seventh chapter and verse seven and eight on your own. Get alone with the Lord with pen and notebook and just write it out and ask God, Lord, Father God, speak to my heart. I want to know what you're saying to me. Holy Spirit in me, show me the way. I'm seeking your guidance and your wisdom. And in the authority that you've given me, Father God, I knock at this door and I speak to this closed door, speak to the closed door in the name of Jesus. Be opened and mountain and obstacle removed. And you go on your way. Now remember when God gives you this open door, go through it in faith. Remember to give him praise, give him glory, give him honor, and share what God is doing with you, in you, in your life and career, with a friend. Because insight shared is insight multiplied for the glory of God, and he who gives, more will be given in Jesus' name. Father God, I thank you for my brothers and my sisters. I thank you that this is a message just for them. Regardless of the language they speak, regardless of the situation, it does not matter to you because you know everything and you have all power and you're committed to their success. So act in their behalf and give them peace in the process and joy and victory in Jesus' name. Amen.