February 20 – Claim Your Rights
“In everything by prayer and supplication let your requests be made known unto God.”
But do not beg. Rather come just as a business manager bringing to the owner the needs, checks to be signed, etc., and knowing that to lay the matter before him means immediate supply.
I long to supply, but the asking — or the faith-assurance from you, is necessary, because to you that contact with Me is vital.
“If we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know
that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” 1 John 5:14, 15
I used to think it was sort of silly and self absorbed to run through your list of needs with God. He knows what we need. Now I look at it differently. Asking Him for the things we need reminds us that we are reliant on Him to care for us.
I always thought it was foolish for people to ask God to do things for them even though they never do what God has asked of them..
They even pray begging for mercy and forgiveness as they are flipping him off and kneeling before a block of wood.
Seem a little risky......
I heard that God could get a little testy with hypocrites.
Then don't do it. Again I will tell you... you don't have beliefs, you have arguments against others having beliefs.
You are mistaken.
You profess belief without any understanding, without ever having sought verifiable proof of the truth that you profess to believe.
I believe in what I know, in what I have seen and heard with my own eyes and ears, in what I have perceived and understand in my own mind.
I am not arguing against others having belief I am showing where wrong and right and judgment lie so that others may have an opportunity to vindicate their belief and experience the fulfillment of their own hopes and dreams while they are still alive, to be worthy of eternal life and to stand in the presence of God.
You claim to believe in God, why would you object to being shown the errors that have built an impenetrable barrier between you and your God?
I know that you have never heard a single word from the living God in your entire life no matter how much you have been blubbering.
Has it never dawned on you that there is something within your adopted beliefs and in your chosen practices that might be amiss...something that you are saying or doing, or failing to say and do, that is offensive to God and has caused Him to hide his face from you?
Is that too hard for a believer to believe?