Ah….the power of the “ASK”!
A former pastor of mine talked to me about the power of the “ask”. I’ve never forgotten those words of wisdom. What keeps us from asking? Is it fear? Fear of rejection? If we don’t express a need or a want, then we won’t be disappointed if we don’t get what we asked for. Maybe it’s a belief that we don’t deserve what we’re asking for? Feelings of unworthiness and poor self-esteem? Maybe we feel as if what we’re asking for is too trivial to bother God. Just before I read this devotional, I said a prayer to help Kathleen and the computer issues we were having. We need our computers to work in order to get our work done. I asked for God’s help in this. Nothing is too small or too big for God. Asking also reminds us that we do indeed have needs. God knows that, but sometimes we forget–until we ask. Then, in our weakness and neediness, God is allowed to help and once again, we are reminded that God is God and we are His. Amen to that! Peace and Love, Scott
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I Am A God Who Heals. I heal broken bodies, broken minds, broken hearts, broken lives, and broken relationships. My very Presence has immense healing powers. You cannot live close to Me without experiencing some degree of healing. However, it is also true that you have not because you ask not. You receive the healing that flows naturally from My Presence, whether you seek it or not. But there is more-much more-available to those who ask.
The first step in receiving healing is to live ever so close to Me. The benefits of this practice are too numerous to list. As you grow more and more intimate with Me, I reveal My will to you more directly. When the time is right, I prompt you to ask for healing of some brokenness in you or in another person. The healing may be instantaneous, or it may be a process. That is up to Me. Your part is to trust Me fully and to thank Me for the restoration that has begun.
I rarely heal all the brokenness in a person’s life. Even My servant Paul was told, “My grace is sufficient for you.” when he sought healing for the thorn in his flesh. Nonetheless, much healing is available to those whose lives are intimately interwoven with Me. Ask, and you will receive.
Psalm 103:3 3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases
James 4:2 (KJV) 2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
2 Corinthians 12:7-9 7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
Matthew 7:7 7″Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young