Ask and You shall recieve!

[Jcnava15]

I am convinced more than ever in the power of prayer. Everytime I submit something to God, he answers me. He always provides me with my spiritual food.

Yet after I get my prayer answered, after a while, I become cynical and detached. I think back on the answered prayer as if it were something that happened to someone else, and not me.

So today during an intense prayer I was asking God for more blessings from him, as if what he has given me already wasn’t enough. During this prayer I had a realization, it was when I was telling God that he said “ask and you shall recieve”, so I was asking him for more blessings. When I was saying this I paused and it was as if God was telling me “yes, but it also means and YOU shall recieve. I will give to you, but it is your duty to accept it.”

So I realized that “Ask and you shall recieve” is a call for us go not only ask for our needs, but it is also carries a responsibility to recieve what we asked for.

This is something I must grow in, having the confidence to recieve from God.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

So I realized that “Ask and you shall recieve” is a call for us go not only ask for our needs, but it is also carries a responsibility to recieve what we asked for.

This is something I must grow in, having the confidence to recieve from God.

I like your point. God doesn’t give us things so we can turn aside from them, as if we either didn’t want them or didn’t deserve them. It isn’t about deserving at all, but it is about being receptive to it.

For example, Jesus gives us His peace, and not as the world gives. The peace the world gives is by definition conditional and temporary, whereas Jesus’s peace is unconditional and eternal. We all would like this peace, but for any number of reasons some of us never feel it. We may feel unworthy, or we may be superstitious about people telling us all the ways we are inferior and shouldn’t expect anything. We may have too much of our own “false self” to let go of (and I think this happens in the majority of cases) to the extent we don’t know peace beyond what the world can give – so we don’t know how to predispose ourselves to receive this gift. Jesus said we have to deny our lives before we can gain them. That’s the Big Trick. If we can get beyond what we’ve been taught and see it for being as minuscule and ineffective as it is, we can progress in the spiritual journey and reap much spiritual fruit.

Alan