GOD'S WORD SHOULD ABIDE IN US !

GOD'S WORD SHOULD ABIDING IN US ! Now let's go to another witness. Jesus said, "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what God will ? No ! Ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7). It doesn't say a thing about God's will. As what you will. But if the word of God abides in you, then you are going to frame your prayer accurately according to the Word of God and you are not going to pray for things that you know are not the will of God. It would be foolish if you had a financial need to pray that someone would lose their billfold or purse so you could find it and get their money. That would be evil. The Bible says in (James 4:2-3), "You have not, because you ask not. You ask and receive not because you ask amiss." The King James Bible. Now, The amplified Bible. "You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled: [so] you become murderous. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], sold you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask. (1 John 5:15). Or you do not ask [God for them] and you failed to receive, because you as with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures." Here James is not talking about asking for something that just wasn't God's will. He goes further and deeper than that. The word amiss means evil. Ask evil. If you read on, you will find out what the problem was. He says to them, "you adulterers and adulteresses." They were probably praying for someone else's wife or husband, and that is evil ! If you pray for things you know are evil, your heart will condemn you and your faith will not work. Wouldn't it have been wonderful if Jesus had said, "if you abide in me, ask what you will and it will be done." Oh, praise God, that would have been great ! Everyone who is born again could just as what they want, and there it would be. But it doesn't work that way. Jesus said, "if you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what you will and it shall be done." Sometimes people pray, "Dear Lord, I cast this care on You and I believe You to take this care, and I praise You, Father, that the media is met." But before they get out of the building, they say, "you know I am so worried. I just don't know what I am going to do." The Word did not abide in them. "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask what you will and it shall be done unto you." Someone says, "Oh, if I asked what I will, that would be selfish." Read the next verse: Herein is my Father glorified that you bear much fruit. Do you believe that it is God's will for the father to be glorified ? Every time you get your prayers answered, it glorifies the Father. Now do you see how you can build wrong thinking by using one verse of Scripture alone ? I remember something I read in one of Kenneth Hagan's book several years ago. He made a statement that I will never forget: "people that think wrong believe wrong; when they believe wrong, they act wrong." This is one of the main problems in the body of Christ today. Many people believe wrong because they think wrong. They are right in their hearts but wrong in their heads