FAITH CAPSULE: Praying before God is to be asking from God.

Matthew 7

Matthew 7:7-8 encourages, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
Asking should be with desire and understanding to realize desires before God.
Psalm 47:7 admonishes, “…Sing praises with understanding.”
As praising before God demands to understand, praying before God should be with understanding.
PRAY
Know to ask for understanding, not to walk as in a pathless wilderness.
Job, in the times of painful challenges of his life he responded to the critics over his life, referring to God, “He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.” (Job 12:24)
Are you experiencing unceasing critics from close ones and ones in the distance that does not know that God is with you in the representative wilderness journey of your life?
A wilderness journey of life is with a path with understanding from God, which will direct to the promise of God not to become stranded in a pathless wilderness. 
God directed the Israelites to navigate the wilderness to arrive at the Promised Land. Exodus 13:17-18 records, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt. So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.” 
The direction of God is the path in the wilderness not to wander.
It is the understanding of God that will lead you in the path of wilderness to arrive at the calling of God.
Ask from God to enable you not to walk in a pathless wilderness of the journey of life.
Ask for the understanding to hear and move as directed by God in the journey of life.
Ask that you will gain understanding from the word of God that is a source to live life for the glory of God. 
The word of God requests to ask, and God will not deny.
Job 32:8 buttresses, ” Job 32:8 buttresses, “But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.” 
 Word of God does not fail to answer when asked from God.
Ask for the breath of God upon you for understanding to become established over your life.
God is not a slave master but a saving master to deliver desires for all that asks. One with the desire not to miss the kingdom of God will experience the deposit of desire by God. Psalm 119:34 records, “Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.” 
The Psalmist, with his desire, asked for understanding to keep and observe the law of God with the whole heart.

Prayer for today: 
Ask for understanding to keep and observe the word of God with the whole heart.
Ask for the understanding of God to be established in you.