WHATSOEVER YOU ASK
VS. ASKING AMISS
Brother James, OIC
Mat 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Jas 4:2-4 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. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers (Greek: moichos moy-khos'Perhaps a primary word; a (male) paramour; in reality; apostate: - adulterer) 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.
The Old Testament Law dealt with revealing then condemning sin in the flesh and began giving a mindset of right and wrong in the natural. Did it stop murders-NO! Did it stop immorality or theft or any conceivable sin-NO-IT REVIVED IT, and those who attempted justification by the law never attained to it.
Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
What it also did was draw a line between God and man that later would point to spiritual things and not to law contained in ordinances. Yet so many in the Church today use the Old Law in interpreting the opening scriptures, BUT we are not under the Old Law we are under Grace-The New Law of Liberty and only Truth can separate and make free your body which is dead in trespasses and sin from the sinless New Creation you become in Christ. What keeps you from receiving what you ask from God is that you have not been born from above by the Word of Truth, which produces faith. Many in Church today walk in apostate teachings of Satan and accept them as truth.
Jesus came full of Grace and Truth using earthly parables to teach those (before the Spirit of Truth was given) Spiritual Matters, but now we have the Spirit IF you receive the love of the truth.
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Lust and amiss in the opening scriptures pertain today to False Doctrine that causes all things regarding your life to remain in the Natural of things seen and not in the Spiritual things not seen thus causing you to miss the mark of Gods Truth. Truth makes you free in the Spirit. The lies of apostate teachings (which are attributing the things of Satan as being from God and vice versa) yokes you to the natural fallen state of the flesh. The Spirit is reborn in Truth and in it is Light and no darkness but the Carnal Mind is full of the darkness of False Solutions the world and its god Satan offers.
Mat 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing (while acknowledging Truth in your heart), ye shall receive.
Many choose to believe the lie and thus are inadvertently worshipping the Creature (man) and not the Creator (God).
Rom 1:17-25 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Jesus said it simply enough:
Joh 8:31-36 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Whatsoever you ask has to be asked in Faith which only comes by hearing the Word of Truth.
Jas 5:14-16 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Mat 21:21-22 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Having faith and doubting not that you will receive is a prerequisite to receiving but if you doubt you are double minded, double mindedness is present where asking amiss exists.
Jas 1:6-8 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
From needs being met to deliverance from demonic oppression, healings and miraculous restorations touching the lost in this world to be saved are all in the power of faith wherein whatsoever you ask believing will be done for you. And believing must unwaveringly trust Gods Promises and not the world for its solutions.
