""Everyone that asketh receiveth." We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked for anything. "Ye shall ask what ye will," said Jesus. Asking means our will is in it. Whenever Jesus talked about prayer, He put it with the grand simplicity of a child: we bring in our critical temper and say - Yes, but...Jesus said "Ask." But remember that we have to ask of God things that are in keeping with the God Whom Jesus Christ revealed."
What is the intent of prayer? In his Upmost For His Highest, Oswald Chambers talks about coming before Christ in secret prayer with pure and honest intentions, "Have no other motive than to know your Father in heaven." The pursuit of relationship with Christ was our purpose for being created and prayer is the passageway. Our longing should be to enter into a relationship where, "Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God." May God ignite your passion and desire to find Him in the secret place.
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