Nov 23
Because you ask amiss
James 4:3 [show/hide]James 4:3
[3]You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. (ESV)
Ye ask, and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Here is, in my judgment, the explanation of all unanswered prayer. When prayer is the voice of the self-life, the lust of the flesh, the lust of avarice, of ambition, of self-advantage, coming into the front, God will never heed it, for to heed it would be the worst thing for you and me.
But, as I grow into Christ and come to know His thought, and as He grows into me and comes to subdue and control my thought, His will becomes my will, and the words of my prayer becomes the expression of His will and His word through me, and the Father hears the Son in the supplication of His disciple. – A.T. Pierson.
The prayer life is not the self-life, but the Christ-life within the soul. What we need therefore for the fullest development of the prayer-life is, “None of self and all of Jesus.” The question, “Am I asking for this to gratify my own pleasure” will help us decide whether we are praying amiss.
- Daily Meditations for Prayer
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