{"id":4719,"date":"2013-11-10T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T08:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T00:11:11","slug":"you-asked-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2013\/11\/10\/you-asked-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You Asked For It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is what I want you to do: Ask the Father for whatever is in keeping with the things I\u2019ve revealed to you. Ask in my name, according to my will, and he\u2019ll most certainly give it to you. Your joy will be a river overflowing its banks!<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI\u2019ve used figures of speech in telling you these things. Soon I\u2019ll drop the figures and tell you about the Father in plain language. Then you can make your requests directly to him in relation to this life I\u2019ve revealed to you. I won\u2019t continue making requests of the Father on your behalf. I won\u2019t need to. Because you\u2019ve gone out on a limb, committed yourselves to love and trust in me, believing I came directly from the Father, the Father loves you directly. First, I left the Father and arrived in the world; now I leave the world and travel to the Father. (John 16:23-28)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tWhen we pray, who are we really talking to? It\u2019s not Jesus. We don\u2019t actually ask Jesus for anything. Instead, we ask his father. In essence, we\u2019re telling the Father that \u201cJesus sent me and said you\u2019d do this.\u201d And why do we ask for things from God? Jesus said so we can be completely happy. And it\u2019s not that by invoking Jesus\u2019 name that somehow Jesus then intercedes on our behalf with a reluctant deity. God is not reluctant. Jesus wants us to understand that God loves us as much as he loves Jesus.<\/p>\n

\tGod knows what we really want and he knows what we really need. Too often, we don\u2019t actually know what we want or need. We may think we do. But chances are, we\u2019re missing the big picture and are not asking for as much as God wants to give us.<\/p>\n

\tWe want a job, for instance, but what we really need is food and clothing and our expenses taken care of. A job may be the way to do it, but God knows the root cause of what we\u2019re asking for and will satisfy that need, rather than giving us what we think will satisfy that need. We\u2019re only human. God knows us better than we know ourselves. Don\u2019t doubt that God has the best of intentions for us; but it\u2019s not just all about us. There\u2019s a whole world interconnected to us as well, and many people involved in the project.<\/p>\n

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