SEARCHING OUT THE PROMISE “Thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant!” 2 Samuel 7:28. KING David knew what the Lord had engaged to give him, and he referred to it specially in his prayer as “this good thing.” (Revised Version.) We greatly need to be more definite in our supplications than we usually are: we pray for everything in such a way that we practically pray for nothing. It is well to know what we want. Hence our Lord said to the blind man, “What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?”