notice here in matthew 7 verse 11
(nlt), if you sinful people know how to
give good gifts to your children how much more will your heavenly FATHER give good
gifts to those who ask him. we are
to ask GOD to meet the needs in our lives.
now there are some barriers that people have to asking GOD to meet their needs.
one is that we are not really convinced that GOD could love us like that.
you may have truly given your life to CHRIST. you may be truly forgiven of your sins, but you still live in bondage to your past and with an overwhelming sense of guilt and condemnation.
but GOD says to those who are in CHRIST JESUS there’s no condemnation. and one of the things that satan will use in our life to keep us anxious and worried is he keeps playing old tapes from our past. so to break satan’s hold you must actually believe that GOD loves you and HE cares about your needs, that HE’s interested in your life and that HE is your father and HE delights in you.
another barrier is our view of GOD, our view that GOD is kind of distant and occupied with the bigger things in life and HE doesn’t really care about the details of my life.
or maybe even more seriously. some of us are not really convinced that prayer really matters or changes things.
we’re kind of self-sufficient so we try to solve every one of life’s problems on our own but then we can’t figure it out and we get desperate so we turn to GOD in prayer. rather than prayer being our first response, it’s our last resort.
just a thought from the front porch…
now there are some barriers that people have to asking GOD to meet their needs.
one is that we are not really convinced that GOD could love us like that.
you may have truly given your life to CHRIST. you may be truly forgiven of your sins, but you still live in bondage to your past and with an overwhelming sense of guilt and condemnation.
but GOD says to those who are in CHRIST JESUS there’s no condemnation. and one of the things that satan will use in our life to keep us anxious and worried is he keeps playing old tapes from our past. so to break satan’s hold you must actually believe that GOD loves you and HE cares about your needs, that HE’s interested in your life and that HE is your father and HE delights in you.
another barrier is our view of GOD, our view that GOD is kind of distant and occupied with the bigger things in life and HE doesn’t really care about the details of my life.
or maybe even more seriously. some of us are not really convinced that prayer really matters or changes things.
we’re kind of self-sufficient so we try to solve every one of life’s problems on our own but then we can’t figure it out and we get desperate so we turn to GOD in prayer. rather than prayer being our first response, it’s our last resort.
just a thought from the front porch…
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