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| 1 | Does asking in His name ever work? | John 14:13 | filmreviews | 129973 | ||
| Is there a trick here? I have sought out so much in His name but nothing came. Yet it is said about 8 times in John alone. Where is the trick to this? | ||||||
| 2 | Does asking in His name ever work? | John 14:13 | Emmaus | 129976 | ||
| flimreviews, Prayer is not a form of magical incantation that makes God our servant or Genie in a bottle. Sometimes the answer God gives to our prayers is No. He is not amnipulated. we are often like children asking our parents for things we want but which they may know better is not good for us. So they say no or ignore us. Sometimes, James tells us: James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, I do not know your situation or your motives, but God does and God is not manipulated, even by prayer. There is no "trick"ing God. Emmaus |
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| 3 | Does asking in His name ever work? | John 14:13 | Hiskid84 | 129980 | ||
| Hi, Emmaus. You did a very good job of answering. In fact, you said everything I was going to! :) I just want to add one thought. I know many times I have prayed for something and it seemed God did not answer. However, later I realized that He had indeed answered but in an unexpected way. To give a very basic example: I pray a prayer for God to change me and make me more like Him. I'm expecting to see an obvious answer. After all, I'm certain that my prayer isn't being asked amiss. So I'm looking for an opportunity to help someone, or maybe gain some new insight into the Bible or understanding of God. Some "confirmation" that God has answered my prayer. In the meantime, something comes along in my life that I don't handle very well and find myself asking God, "Why has this happened?" Far too often I realize, after the fact, that in this "event" I had opportunity to change and be more like Him. Did I? No. I took my eyes off of Him and fixed them on the problem. If I had kept my eyes on Him I might have learned to trust Him more. I could have meditated upon Philippians 4:13 and relied upon His strength and not my own. I could have put 1 Thess. 5:16-18 into practice, knowing I was fulfilling His will for me. Would these things have produced growth and change in me? It's very likely. Would that have been a direct answer to my prayer. Most definitely! Did God cause something bad to happen in order to bring about His answer? No way. However, He has this wonderfully unique way of taking unexpected things and using them for our good (growth) and His glory. So sometimes He uses circumstances to answer prayer. We just have to be open to whatever way He may choose to reply. Just my 0.02 worth. Karen |
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