Pray about It
You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
— James 4:2
Have you ever stopped and thought that maybe there are things in your life that haven't happened because you have simply failed to ask God for them?
Maybe you are ill right now and have never actually prayed about it. Maybe you've never said something like, "You know, Lord, I have never asked You to heal me. Maybe I thought that if You wanted to heal me, You would just go ahead and do it. But I'm asking You to heal me." It just may be that you do not have because you do not ask.
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Maybe you have a financial need and have exhausted every resource to meet it. Has it dawned on you that you could actually pray about it? The Bible says, "And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). Perhaps you do not have because you do not ask.
Maybe your marriage is starting to unravel, and you don't know what to do. You have tried everything. You have talked to everyone. But have you actually prayed about your marriage and asked God to intervene? It might be that you do not have because you do not ask.
We should pray because prayer is God's appointed way for us to obtain things from Him. That is not the only purpose of prayer, but to fail to see this is to miss a lot. The Bible is very clear in pointing out that we "do not have because [we] do not ask" (James 4:2).
That doesn't mean that God always will answer our prayers the way we pray them. But it does mean that many times He will. So when you have a need, the first thing you ought to do is to pray about it.
