answers to prayer

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I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life. 14 And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. 15 And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.

Don’t we wish that was the reality? He will give us whatever we ask. The Bible says it so it must be a reality. So why don’t we always get what we pray for?

What we say and what we doesn’t always match. We are either going to stop believing it, or we are going to apply it to our lives. There is a gap in our lives between who we are and what we are going to become. We are created to experience God.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if every time we asked that God said YES? How do we get there? How do we live this life? At times in the Bible it seems like the writer of what you are reading forgets what he is talking about. Much like this situation.

In the first verse God proclaims to us through the pen of John that we can know that we have eternal life. Yet many people think eternal life is heaven or the afterlife. I believe that eternal life is all the life that God gives us. Beginning at salvation and never having an end; thus, the reason it is called eternal.

I submit that the reason we don’t always get a YES to our prayers is that we are living for the wrong purpose and seeking the wrong things often. It is only when we live the life God have given us that the answer to our prayers is the positive.

If God was to give us all that we ask for, those answers would severely change and destroy our future. God knows what is best. He has plan for us.

Ask in the way that pleases God or in His will and the answers God gives will be what we want because they will be what God wants.

James 4:1-3 NASB

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

NOTE: Continue to pray for Brenton Hall as his struggle has gotten much worse and pray for 8-year-old Miguel Galdamez as he will have heart surgery at UVA later this week.

Catalyst ticket arrived

My ticket to the Catalyst Conference, in Atlanta Oct 8-10, just arrived. I'm excited!

Have you heard of EDITH BURNS?

Edith Burns was a wonderful Christian who lived in San Antonio, Texas . She was the patient of a doctor by the name of Will Phillips. Dr. Phillips was a gentle doctor who saw patients as people. His favorite patient was Edith Burns. One morning he went to his office with a heavy heart and it was because of Edith Burns. When he walked into that waiting room, there sat Edith with her big black Bible in her lap earnestly talking to a young mother sitting beside her. Edith Burns had a habit of introducing herself in this way: "Hello, my name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Then she would explain the meaning of Easter, and many times people would be saved. Dr. Phillips walked into that office and there he saw the head nurse, Beverly. Beverly had first met Edith when she was taking her blood pressure. Edith began by saying,"My name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Beverly said, "Why yes I do." Edith said, "Well, what do you ...

wash feet, sharing hope

John 13:4-5,14 NLT So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, 5 and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him… 14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. Jesus set the example we follow. He served. He valued and gave value to others. That is why we choose to serve. For 18 years our church has shared an outreach called back2school, and for 16 of those years we have chosen to give students brand new shoes and socks as well as washing their feet. It is one of the most important parts of this event. Washing feet is a humbling experience where both the give and the receiver learn how to share some moments that might change their lives. Jesus said we should do this. See the verse above. Follow His example, do what He did, and give far more than you will ever know....

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