HOW MUCH MORE

If you have children, you know that you would do anything for them because you are in love with them.  They are your life, they are everything to you.  With that same concept know that God, your Father, has that same love feeling for you and me.  We are His life, His world so to say and His world is all about us.  He lives for us, we are His motivation, just like our lives are about our children, and His is about His children.  He is always thinking of, and doing things for His children.

Matthew 7:11 If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him!

Yet many have the idea that God won’t give good let alone advantageous gifts to us.  With that kind of thinking we actually keep God from giving good gifts to us, because God’ promises are activated by faith, not doubt.  When we keep on asking we show that we have faith in God, when we are persistently asking God it shows we are expecting and relying on Him to move on our behalf.

In fact when we keep on asking it shows that we know He is going to do something wonderful for us.  When we keep on asking it proves really that we know Him and His love for us and that is why we sometimes even beg Him.

Is begging God what moves God to answer my request, do I need to beg God? No, but when I keep asking, though I may be begging or it may seem like begging, that is when I give God opportunity to answer my prayer and most of the time that happens with an instruction.  When we keep on asking is when God will keep on giving us the revelation we need to actually receive what He has already provided for us.  The answer is there, but we can’t see that answer until we ask which is why we keep on asking; to see the revelation of how to live in His Kingdom.  That's the bottom line; when we keep on asking our asking will result in revelation knowledge which is what we need to live in His Kingdom where all things are possible.

We tend to beg in desperation and God will use desperation to give us His wisdom for the situation we are begging Him to change.  Therefore the idea of asking here in this reference is not begging, but asking for wisdom to change the circumstances we are in.

Without asking God for His wisdom, for His advice, for understanding, we really are living on our own without Him.  So keep asking, you have not because you ask not (James 4:2)!