Day 7: Ask and you will Receive #21 Day Purity Challenge

In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. John 16:23-24

We have direct access to the Father by Jesus’ name. Jesus said that we can ask the Father anything in His name and we will receive it. God’s word says that He gives good gifts to his children and we should not doubt if we are to receive from Him, nor should we be double-minded in our asking.

How has your asking been lately? Are you asking in faith and assurance? If so, have you been receiving?

James 4:3 says “You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.”

When we ask God anything, He is looking at our motives and our faith. God appeared to Solomon in a dream in the night and asked Him what He should give him (1 Kings 3). Solomon asked for discernment to rule over His people and in return God made him the wisest man that ever lived and in addition gave him wealth and honor because of his heart toward God and the things of God.

Jesus’ disciples and their mother even were bold to ask for a seat next to Him in heaven, but Jesus said this would be up to the Father, as this thing was not His to give and if they wanted to be great in the Kingdom they must be a servant and suffer like Him (Matthew 20:20-28).

God wants to make your well of joy full by giving you your heart’s desire. Let’s examine our asking and refocus our prayers to be centered on the Kingdom of God, so God can trust us with His heavenly treasures.

Matthew 7:7-11

“Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will [instead] give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will [instead] give him a snake? 11 If you then, evil (sinful by nature) 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 what is good and advantageous to those who keep on asking Him.”