Ask God

James 4:2-4

2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

 Living throughout our lives we have asked for things and have lusted over them to gain without properly acquiring or preparing ourselves to receive our most desired object in life. We use channels like our parents, relatives, God, other means and our friends and even expect things from strangers that require non-effort. We use our eyes to shop and buy and want what someone else has because we think we should have it or least it be in our possession. Yet in still we use God as a last resort and when this is not fast enough we choose other avenues.

Simply put we bypass God to try to attain the desired object whether it may be love from someone, gifts of all sorts, to have someone recognize the job that has been done  etc… and the list could go on and on. Yet we still wouldn’t have what we truly want. What we want is gratitude, achievement and excellence which boils down to is some sort of glory that would make someone feel prideful and wanted. Thieves, murderers, liars, cheaters, adulterers (esses) etc… are coveters and want acknowledgement. We see what we want and devise a plan of deception to get it without really paying for it legally. Sounds like someone is laying traps like the lying wonder named Satan (read John 8:44 devil called the father of lies).

 There is more to life than having access to a lot of things which would keep our attention but for a moment until we see something else we truly want. Some of us (yes, us Christians) believe in tarot card reading, fortune telling, divination which by the way bypasses God in order to get our most prized possession. God’s word says not to practice or be in the habit of involving yourself in the circle of people who practice (tarot reading, fortune telling, divination etc…) for it is an abomination unto the Lord.  Which means leave it alone for it is not motivated by God or by good motives but is motivated by fleshly desires and truly in God’s eyes we don’t need it? Why? For there are things we ask God for and He hasn’t given unto us. Either we are not to have it because of the lack of interest later we would pay attention to your Savior or are not ready to receive it for lack of preparation or it’s not time yet.

 Deuteronomy 18:10-12

10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

 It all comes down to lust, lust of the eyes, coveting, deception and lying. Rather we must be in right standing with the Lord, obeying his word, praying and seeking His face. In layman’s term stop sinning and practicing sin.

 If we the called-out-ones out of this world (Christians) would seek His face and humble our ways and turn from our sins God will in-turn hear us, answer our prayers and desires ( read 2 Chronicles 7:14). We must come to realize that there is nothing that God can’t do and all things are possible with God (read Matthew 19:26). We limit God for we think He is at our level. We are sadly mistaken to think this way when He is Alpha and Omega beginning and end.

 My dear friends and brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus our desire should be living our every moment waiting to see Him and daily waiting for Christ return and wanting to be with Jesus our brother in Heaven.

Ask with the right motives in your heart, live a God-fearing life and watch for the coming of Christ.

Today acquire a burning desire to live for God for the rest of your life from this moment on. 

God bless you all may the Lord continue to bless you.

Prayer:

Lord I desire to have more of you in my life and I repent for any wrong doing I may have caused and wash and purge me from my sins. In Jesus name Amen!

Minister Merv