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Communicating our Needs and Desires to the Father

One of the ways we communicate with the Father is to make a request on our behalf or for the benefit of another.

To Receive What You Ask for, we are to ask according to His desirous will

And this is the confidence which we have towards Him, that if, perhaps, we ask, as a lessor to a greater, something according to His desirous will, He hears us. And if, perhaps, we intuitively know that He hears us, that which perhaps we asked for ourselves we intuitively know that we will have the thing asked for which we ask from Him, 1 John 5:14 – 16

We are to ask in faith

Taking God at His word. He states that if we ask according to His desirous will we will have what we have requested.

When asking for wisdom Scripture states …but let him ask in faith, without doubting, for the doubting one yields as a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed, James 1:6

God is able to provide beyond what we could even consider possible. God spoke the universe into existence, what could you possibly ask that is beyond His natural ability to perform?

Now to the one having the natural ability to do exceedingly above all things which we ask for ourselves or think, according to the natural ability, the one working in us, Ephesians 3:20

Notice: No response from God is not an answer to your request, it means He did not hear you.

Why Do we Ask but not Receive?

We ask so that we can freely spend it according to our own pleasures

You ask and you do not receive, because you ask incorrectly, in order that you […]

Wars and Conflicts

James 4:1 – 6 From where do waging wars and conflicts come among you? Do they not come from here: out from your pleasures, the ones serving as soldiers in your members? All of you desire, and do not have. All of you murder and all of you are jealous and are not caused to have the natural ability to obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask, as a lessor to a greater. You ask, as a lessor to a greater, and you do not receive because you incorrectly10 ask, as a lessor to a greater, in order that you spending it freely by your own pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not intuitively know that the fondness of the world is hostility concerning God? Therefore the one determining to be a friend belonging to the world constitutes himself an enemy pertaining to God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The spirit, which settled down and feels at ease among you, longs towards envy”? And he gives more favor, wherefore saying, “God arranges Himself in battle against the arrogant, but give favor to the humble.”