Ask and you will receive!!

An Dao

I lived in Vietnam when I was younger. We lived in a really small house made of mud walls and banana leaf roof. Our days were limited to 4 to 5 hours of electricity from 6pm to 10pm. The proximity of bodies was extremely close.

Luke 11:5-8. Sometimes we feel like we pester our neighbor to get to him. We would have the same attitude towards God, where we may think God is slumbering, and in order for us to get something from Him, we much knock incessantly.

V9-13. God is our heavenly Father. And it is Jesus who has taken away the barrier

God is our heavenly Father & we don’t need to beg Him. God does not hold back from us. We don’t need to give him long droned out prayers to get something out of him. Sometimes when we pray, our impression of God can be marred if we allowed unanswered prayer to make God seem like he doesn’t care.

V13.

1King Elijah Challenge; Elijah makes a challenge to the 450 prophets of Belial. It was that whoever could get their gods to create a fire. They do an abundance of worship to their god, but to no avail does a fire start. Their efforts are like the man who knocks and knocks on the door to God. When it came to Elijah's turn, he prayed a short prayer. He stood on a stand of authority and confidence. He has knowledge of God's power, so to have understanding of this would allow us to ask of him things on our heart.

So why do we not receive certain things we want? Most likely because we have not asked.

Why is it important for us to ask? Because we want to be obedient to God. It is also more efficient because of our inability to know the best outcome of our situations. Many times we don’t ask because of some spiritual failure in our past. We then start to put God in a box due to our life experiences. The Word of God should dictate who God is, not our life experiences. To overcome this, we need to focus on the Word of God.

2Corinthians1:20. Whatever God has promised, we can ask God for it, and it can be given to us.

So what can we ask God for? We can ask for whatever in Jesus' character.

God is our heavenly Father and we dont need to

What are your needs? There is nothing that we can't ask of God. Who he is allows us to come before him with any requests.