1 John 3:22 (NKJV) 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
We all ask God for things.
Sometimes we ask Him for wisdom. Sometimes we ask for help with a specific situation. Sometimes we ask Him for finances to pay for something we need.
The thing is that we don’t always get what we ask for. Why is that?
This short verse above tells us exactly why!
“We receive from Him because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight”.
Our walk with God is all about relationship. It is a Father/son or Father/daughter relationship.
It is not a King on a throne looking down at us, dictating to us what we should do to be good subjects.
It is a Father in heaven, loving us and wanting us to love Him back. As with any relationship, we want to please the one we love.
With God, He wants us to do the things that are pleasing in His sight. His word tells us what those things are; put Him first in everything, love others, do to others what we want done to us, live righteously, etc.
Now, this isn’t a dictatorship. God doesn’t watch our every move, waiting for us to fail so He can hold it over us or punish us when we do.
He simply wants us to love Him so much that we want to do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
It’s then that we will begin to see the verse above played out in our lives. And we will begin to see the things we ask Him for coming to pass. Because our hearts will be one with His, and our requests will be in line with His heart!
1 John 5:14-15 (NKJV) 14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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