P-R-A-Y - Part 3

ASK For What You Need

First we talked about Praising God for the things He has done for us and then yesterday we saw that repenting was the next step in praying that we need in order to go on to the next step. How could we ever ask our father or mother for something extraordinary when ew knew we were guilty of something they had taught us "not to do".

Think about it for a moment! If you parents knew you had done something wrong and you knew that they knew about it, would you be able to approach them as though nothing was wrong? When I was a teenager I remember my father sometimes just hinting that he knew about something I had done wrong, but he was waiting for me to come to him. Oh man, I hated that so much because I had to live with the conviction until I was willing to humble myself and take the punishment that came when I admitted to what I had done. That had to have been some of the most miserable times in anyones life until it was brought out into the open and settled! I could tell that my father was so glad to see me come to him and admit my fault and it was never as bad as I imagined that it would be. Satan had me fooled by my own imagination and guilt.

The really awesome thing about coming to God and repenting is that He is always ready to let us feel his forgiveness and reconciles us to a relationship that allows us to ask for the things that we need in life. You see, it is the believing and forgiven heart that gets it's needs met by our heavenly Father!

Paul said, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation." 2Corinthians 5:17-18

Jesus said, "Verily I say to you, he that believes on me, the works that I do will he do also; and greater works than these will he do; because I go to my Father. And whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name, I WILL DO IT." John 14:12-14

Praise, Repent and Ask!