FAITH CAPSULE: Ones that know to wait on God are the ones that know to ask.
Psalm 32, 94
What is stopping you from asking from God? A failure not to ask is the evidence of lack of faith. The word of God stated, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:7-11) Asking and not receiving could be the evidence of asking wrongly. The bible makes us to realize that it is possible to ask and ask wrongly. The book of James 4:3 stated, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” What are you asking for? Why not turn around and begin to ask for that which will cause you to seek God more? To seek God is to be positioned where all of your needs be added to you by His grace. (Matthew 6:33)
Asking from God the promises of God for your life is not because God has forgotten you. God does not forget His children; He is God that acts for the one who waits for Him. (Isaiah 64:4) Ones that know to wait on God are the ones that know to ask and God attends to them. The bible pointed it out that He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? (Psalm 94:9) It is worthy to begin to ask God for instruction and teaching over your life. In these days of uncommon challenges, evil occurrences that are ravaging the world, begin to ask for His promises. The word of God promised, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I will guide you with My eye.” (Psalm 32:8) Do you desire His eye to guide you? Indeed it is a blessing to be guided by the eye of God. Psalmist buttressed, “Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, and teach out of your law, that You may give him rest from the days of adversity…” (Psalm 94:12-13) There is a need to begin to desire rest from His instruction and teaching these days. God has promised to instruct and teach for rest to have a place in man’s life. Turn to God and begin to ask for God’s instruction and teach to have a place in my life.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to hear and respond when God’s instruction and teaching is sounding in your direction.