DOES GOD EVER GIVE YOU what you have asked for when it is less than His best for you? Psalm106 a passage that reviews the 40 years God's people walked in the desert, contains sobering reference to this, it says, "So he (God) gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease upon them" (Psalm106:15).
When you pray, there are three questions that need to ask yourself.
First, ask, "Is what I'm asking God to do consistent with what God has revealed in His word?" This is important because God cannot contradict Himself.
For the second question, ask, "Am I praying for God's will in this whole matter?" We are to ask in faith, believing that God will honor His Word, yet the highest form of faith is praying as Jesus did, "Not my will but yours be done." When you pray for God's.will and what you are praying for appears to be consistent with what God tells you in His Word, you can pray with greater confidence.
Then you should ask, "will God glorified in what I'm asking Him to do? Praying that you win your game means someone else loses. Praying that your golf game be better than your opponent's is suspect, and asking God to let you catch the biggest fish falls outside the lines of respectable requests.
Take heart in what John wrote, " this is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His Will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us whatever we ask-- we ask-- we know that we have what we asked of him" (1John 5:14--15).
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