Casn't be amiss... hey I would GLADLY give someone a ride to church in my dodge viper.
On a serious note you are correct. When we ask for "stuff" just because we want more "stuff", that is asking amiss and God isn't under any obligation to hand it over.
Sometimes we fall into the trap of misunderstanding what true riches are. When we understand those and ask... we receive.
Me thinks you are definitely right 'bout that. I think we need to first expend a few moments to think of what we are about to request of God before we pray, and perhaps in so doing we can do so with the complete assurance that we shall receive the desires of our heart. Thank God for allowing us to pray, knowing that He is always ready and willing to do that which we ask of Him.
Me thinks you are definitely right 'bout that. I think we need to first expend a few moments to think of what we are about to request of God before we pray, and perhaps in so doing we can do so with the complete assurance that we shall receive the desires of our heart. Thank God for allowing us to pray, knowing that He is always ready and willing to do that which we ask of Him.
Yes, He is always ready to do what we ask of him:
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(31) Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(32) (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
JA Commentary: Why exhaust all your energy questing for stuff? That is what people outside the kingdom do. God already knows you need food clothing and shelter.
(6) But godliness with contentment is great gain.
(7) For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
(8) And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
This and other teachings throughout should be enough to teach what we should be asking for and what we shouldn't be overly concerned about.
I do know that God will give us what we need. In 22 years of living for God I don't recall ever having to beg him for necessities. For every door that has ever closed on me another opened. Maybe not right when I would liked it to open, but it opened.
He obviously has the ability to, but He answers according to what His will is. Since we cannot possible know his full and entire will, there are times that we ask for things, spiritual or physical, that He does not give us because they are not His will.
"Will" = "want", correct? So, in other words, what most of you are saying is that God will give us everything we ask for, if He wants to. OK, got it. Thanks.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
When I and hundreds of others asked God to heal my brother of cancer, I guess He just didn't want to. Anyone here going to thank Him for that unanswered prayer?
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
When I and hundreds of others asked God to heal my brother of cancer, I guess He just didn't want to. Anyone here going to thank Him for that unanswered prayer?
Timothy, after having experienced the deaths of 2 brothers (1 older, 1 younger) to the effects of cancer within the past 19 months, I guess it is possible for me to understand why you would entertain such a question. Believe me, I prayed many, many times for their healing, yet it never came for either of them. Was it God’s fault that things failed to materialize as I had hoped and prayed for? Not at all! Why then were they not healed? Well, could it be because of their lack of faith in God’s ability, or willingness, to give them such healing, and not the fact that I had asked Him to do it for them? Perhaps, but it is not within my right to question God, and I won’t. Do I wish it had been different for them? Of course, but I am not angry with God because it didn’t happen.
The manner in which I consider this is that I did what I believed was required of me; I asked, but recognize that death is an event we must all experience, some sooner or later than others. Their encounter with death just happened to come before mine, and so I must accept it in that manner.
Sometimes it is not that God does not WILL something, and sometimes it is with underlying reasons HE WILL NOT LET US KNOW. But to think it is a simple issue of finding a pat answer, we are pipe dreaming. God simply has reasons He does not let us in on sometimes.
FAITH, Timmy, We simply cannot get away from FAITH in things of life and God and Heaven. We CANNOT get away from the fact that FAITH means we have to trust God sometimes when He does not give us the answers. He just knows what to do and it is always right.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
Ya know, while I voted "no", as I look back on my life I see that everything I really asked for, God has eventually given me. Now there are some things I have wished for -but didn't ask, and I am still wishing, but when it really mattered, God came through.
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
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