How should we ask for what we want?

Have you wanted something so much, but did not think you would ever receive it? Have you ever asked someone for something, but didn't get it? Do you wonder whether you are asking the correct way, or whether you sound greedy?

Well, there is someone who longs to give us what we want. We just have to be willing to ask him and be humble when we ask for something. Jesus loves us sooo much that he desires to fill our desires. But many times we do not ask him, and we just expect Him to gives us what we want.

Matthew 7:7-8 says, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." As we see in these verses, as long as we ask, and ask in the right way, Jesus will give us what we want. All we have to do is ask in His name and be humble in asking.

He also cares for us above anything else. He loves us more than we can imagine!!! Matthew 6:25-26 "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" Jesus loves us so much more than the birds of the air and the animals of the field. We are made in God's image and He also longs to be our Father and to take us under His wing and take care of us and to never, ever leave us.

Although God does want to grant us our desires we shouldn't wait to ask Him and make it as our last resort. God does already know that we will ask Him...but we shouldn't leave it as the last thing we do. Asking Jesus for the things we want should be the first thing we do before anything else. Remember though, Jesus does answer our prayers but it is according to His will and not our own. He may answer our prayers but not in the way we expect. He may not always give us exactly what we want. Sometimes He does have to tell us no for some of the things we want.

Ask and it shall be given unto you
Seek and ye shall find
Knock and the door shall be opened unto you
allelu, allelujah.