You Ask for it --- You GOT it!

GodTalk'in!

A customer wanted me to do Matt. 7:7, one of the "ask, seek, knock" verses. And I began to simmer on it, the associative verses, all the references to other scriptures in the same vein, etc. I asked the Lord for revelation and understanding, and an amazing thing happened.

I got revelation and understanding!

It surprised me. It caught me off-guard that I would ask for something from God, and immediately, with fervor, I got what I asked for. Of course, I had asked according to the Word. I had taken a verse, laid it into my thinking and let it settle down in my heart, then asked the Lord for it with the knowledge that I was ASKING and was going to receive, according to the word of God.

I don't know why I was suprised! In my art, in classes I teach or the bible study's I do, I teach two main themes: God is not a man that He should lie (what He says He will do, he WILL do); and the Word is true, will never return empty, but ALWAYS without fail does what God says it will do. The Word is God - according to John 1 - it is Him, it is of Him, and even as He cannot lie, the Word also is true, and it WILL do what God says it will do -- if we ask according to it.

So, I asked. And when I began reading, somewhere in Isaiah, I heard God actually speaking the words I was reading. When I switched over to Luke, Jesus was talking --- I literally saw His eyes light up and mouth moving, speaking the words I was reading. I know, kinda wierd-ish, but IT WAS SO COOL!!! Though I have taught the Word, and painted the Word, and read the Word, a gazillion times before, all of a sudden it came ALIVE in that whatsoever I asked for, according to the word and in the name of Jesus, I was a 'gonna have that thing, because God's desire is to bless me as His daughter, to bless the works of my hands, to bless my descendants and their descendants, to give me the desires of my heart. I heard Him say so!

Now, I know there is a "thing" out there in Christian circles - the whole "name it and claim it" or "blab it and nab it" thing - but that's NOT what I am talking about. Does God want us to be blessed, prosperous, etc? I KNOW He does. But the caveat that goes with that is the purpose behind the giving of God - for souls to be saved, for relationships with Him to be encouraged, deepened, established ... for the Body to be built up and the Kingdom grown here on earth. Prosperity --- with His Purpose. It is His purpose that I be blessed, deepened, and established; that whatsoever I ask for, in His Name, it shall be given to me. It's up to me to make sure I am asking for the right things and in the right manner. Not a formula, but an examining of the heart and a good look deep inside --- then a trusting of my Father that He is true, and that His Word is true, too.

Ask!