We are truly blessed to be part of
God's Kingdom now already. We are blessed to have Him living within
us. We are blessed to be one Spirit with Him. We are truly blessed.
And out of this Kingdom living perspective we might understand the
following Scriptures better:
"Therefore I say to you,
whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive
them and you will have them." Mark 11:24
"And whatever things you ask in
prayer, believing, you will receive." Matthew 21:22
"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 it." John 14:13,
14
"You did not choose Me, but I
chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and
that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in
My Name He may give you." John 15:16
"And in that day you will ask
Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the
Father in My Name He will give to you. Until now you have asked
nothing in My Name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be
full."John 16:23, 24
As you can see this one theme is
repeated again and again in the Gospels. And I have learned the
significance of things being repeated in the Bible. God wants to
make sure that His children understand what He wants to tell them.
These verses are mostly avoided by churches because they don't know
how to explain to their church members that they will have what
they pray for. And they most certainly don't know what to say when
their congregation don't get what they prayed for. And yet God
tells us to pray and to ask, using the Name of Jesus. And as we
have seen, we have the Name of Christ, we roam this earth as His
possessions bearing His Name. Therefore we have the legal right to
ask for things in this world using His Name. After all, He commands
us to use His Name.
Now does this mean we can ask that
everything be well with us? Does it mean that we can pray for
material possessions? Does it mean that we can pray for our health?
Does it mean we can pray for our country and expect everything to
change? What does it mean? Surely we cannot just get everything we
ask for like a magic wand. I think the following verse clarifies
this for us:
"If you abide in Me, and My
words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
done for you." John 15:7
The key word here is 'abide'. The
Greek word for abide is Meno and according to the Bible hub it
means - "something has established itself within my soul, and
always exerts its power in me." Thayer Lexicon says that it means
'to continue to be present'. So let us look at this verse again. It
is saying that if we allow Jesus to continue to be present and
established in our soul and allow Him to exert His power in us,
then we will have what we ask for. In other words, we've previously
seen that Jesus lives within us, our spirit is connected with
His, but we need to allow Him to start to permeate into our souls
as well and start to influence our thoughts. When we get to a point
(and we certainly can) where Jesus fills not only our spirit, but
our souls as well, then all that we ask for will be given to us.
Why? Because we will be asking what Jesus would be asking for.
Once again, we need to renew our
minds to think as Jesus did. We've seen that we have the mind of
Christ and the time has come that we apply His mind. And the more
we think like Him, the more our prayers would be answered and our
desires given to us. We are God's children, He wants the best for
us. He wants us to thrive and to be healthy to do what He has
planned for us to do. Jesus Himself spoke all the Scriptures quoted
above. Don't you think the time has come to ask. James 4:2 tells us
that we do not have because we do not ask.
Spend time with Jesus, abide in
Him, remain in Him and then ask your hearts' desires. Ask Him and
it will be done for you. The Word is faithful and true and cannot
lie. Stand on the Word. Jesus came to open up the way to the
Father. Use the channel He died to give you. Ask, My child, ask,
says the Lord.
Thank you Father for the wonderful
privilege to be able to ask You for so much. Thank you that we can
trust in Your Word, that we can ask in Jesus' Name and that it will
be done for us according to Your Word. May Your Word and Your Son
abide in our souls, that we can ask according to Your perfect will.
Thank you for the privilege. In Jesus' Name. Amen