Too often we look at what we don’t have and we feel bad for ourselves. We wonder why we don’t have it. We may grumble and complain. Sometimes we ask why these things keep happening to us and why things never go right. We see what others have and we don’t understand why the same things aren’t coming our way.
In James, we read that we don’t have things because we aren’t going to God asking for them. We seem to forget that everything we have is from God. He is our supplier and our sustainer. He is the one who gives us all we have. The world tricks us into thinking we have earned it. So if we know that our God is a giver and He gives us everything, we should be in the mode to ask Him for things. The asking comes with relationship.
It’s hard to go up to a stranger and ask for things. I mean, it’s a stranger. You don’t even know the person. But to go up to your parent and ask for something—it’s practically expected. As you continue to spend time with God, building that strong relationship together, it will get easier and easier to make requests to God. He already wants to give you so much. Read His Word. He has promised you so much! Ask for His promises to be poured out. Be sure to pour out your heart. He already knows the desires of your heart. Be real with Him.
“You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.” – James 4:2 [NLT]
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