Ask

[mukk_in]

Ask and it shall be given you (NASB 1977)

On the face of it asking God for what we want sounds quite simple. All we have to do is prepare a wish list and start reading that out to God. But then we run into conflicting motives (James 4:2-3), lack of persistence (Luke 18:1-8), lack of faith (James 1:8) and such. However, it seldom occurs to us that when we ask we have to be truly in a place of utter hopelessness. A man will never receive from God if he has alternate strategies already conjured up should God not fulfill his wish. If we can do something on our own we will never really ask God for anything. To truly ask is to be at the end of our rope, to be desperate and to have no one and no where else to turn. It may take a man a long time to get there, but when he does, asking our Heavenly Father would be as natural as breathing.

 

[Carl Emerson]

If you have been saved from a shipwrecked life, you know from that point that without Him you are toast.

Being dependent on Him from that point is pretty natural and desirable.

However total surrender is necessary and I get the impression that giving up control is feared by many.

What folks need to realise is that giving up control allows Him to work Godly order in your life.

Surrender then is not a freakout.

 

[biblelesson]

If you have been saved from a shipwrecked life, you know from that point that without Him you are toast.

Being dependent on Him from that point is pretty natural and desirable.

However total surrender is necessary and I get the impression that giving up control is feared by many.

What folks need to realise is that giving up control allows Him to work Godly order in your life.

Surrender then is not a freakout.

Gosh, then why do we freakout? I'm seeing it's the flesh. Finally, I can see that. It took a long time going through guilt and shame. But now I see what Apostle Paul is really saying in Romans 7. If I can't surrender, it's my flesh. I believe we desperately want to surrender to received God's blessings, but we have a problem with the flesh. So, how to overcome is another issues, or how to be delivered?