Do you make out big wish lists for things you want from God? I do. I always get everything I want!
(NOT)
I do believe we are to make our request know to God...
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
He wants us to talk to Him. He never slumbers and He is a good listener.
Can you think of any reason why you didn't get what you wanted?
Please keep this verse in mind...
Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
It may help get us started. It may also help us avoid some wrong answers. God bless you.
a selfish view of things is one reason we don’t receive things when it’s all about what we want , our desires and we want more to make our own selves more comfortable praying for worldly items and associations of the lists of the flesh
“
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that
the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
James 4:3-4 KJV
in the gospel Jesus said that those who believe the gospel and walk therin learning the right heart and mind would receive the things they ask for
they weren’t asking for many of the things we ask for they were asking for healings , for thier basic needs to be met , for others to awake into the gospel and be saved , for deliverance out of perils in order to deliver the gospel to the world
I think the key for us is to remain in the parameters of the gospel in prayer and make sure our requests are approved of the one we’re asking
“
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.”
John 15:7-8, 10
The gospel teaches us things like this
“No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And the
Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for
that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”
Luke 16:13-15 KJV
when we pray we can’t be abiding here
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For
all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
1 John 2:15-17 KJV
We try as Christians to sit on the fence enjoying the lists of the world and also the promises of salvation but his promises are based in the terms he set forth
our prayers should resemble his teachings about prayer and our requests will be in line with the gospel and faith brings those things to pass