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~ What To Ask God For ~

Jesus said, “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.  Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?  Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?  If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him” (Matthew 7:7-11). 

Ask For The Help of The Lord  ~  The Scriptures were given for our learning!  “So Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord” (2 Chronicles 20:4). 

Ask For The Help of The Spirit  ~  Jesus said, “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:13). 

Ask For The Fullness of Joy  ~  Jesus said, “Until now you have asked nothing in My name.  Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full” (John 16:24). 

Ask For Wisdom  ~  “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him” (James 1:5). 

Ask For Other Good Things (aligned with God’s will) ~  Jesus said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.  And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If you ask anything in My name, I will do I” (John 14:12-14). 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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