1st August, 2019
AMISS PLEA
David Abankwah
READ: 1 John 5:14-15
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
-James 4:3 | KJV
Making a request from somebody requires an approach you have to make. When we remember our childhood days, we requested many things from our parents. Sometimes we requested the aeroplanes, the trains, the sea and extravagant things that we believed our parents could provide, but, we didn’t get what we wanted. But we realised that, the things that our parents bought for us or provided, were things that we needed, not the things we wanted. There are things that you need and there are things that you want.
Imagine if our parents had the means to provide us the sea, the trains, the aeroplanes and stuff, at that time, what would we have done with them as children? We were just wanting to consume these things upon our lusts as James chapter four, verse number three says. One thing we have to note is that, God is our heavenly Father (Matthew 6:9). He is not bereft of any good thing we want and He is capable of providing everything we need want. But the issue is that, it is not everything that will benefit us when we ask for them.
God in His infinite wisdom knows what is best for you and what will ruin your life. That is why it is very important for one to pray about the will of God all the time (Matthew 6:10; 26:39). When you approach God in prayer making your pleas before Him, you have to ask yourself whether what you are about to ask is an amiss plea or the right plea. There are good things God wants us to pray for. There is no way when you pray, seek and knock for the Spirit of God that God is not going to refuse you (Luke 11:13).
There is no way when you pray for God to help you bear the fruits of the Spirit which are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance, God is going to refuse you (Galatians 5:22-23). There is no way when you pray for the gifts of the Spirit like word of wisdom, word of knowledge, healing, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, divers kinds of tongues and its interpretation and the gift of faith, God is going to refuse you (1 Corinthians 12:8-10).
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David Abankwah 