{"id":427404,"date":"2024-06-09T02:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=427404"},"modified":"2024-06-09T02:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T20:31:38","slug":"ask-if-you-have-not-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/09\/ask-if-you-have-not-received\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask If You Have Not Received"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For everyone who asks receives. \u2014 Luke 11:10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is nothing more difficult than to ask. We desire and crave and suffer, but only when we\u2019ve reached our absolute limit do we ask. What finally makes us ask God for the Holy Spirit is a sense of unreality. We sense that we are not spiritually real and that we cannot become spiritually real on our own. When this happens, when we glimpse our powerlessness, we must ask God for the Spirit, basing our request on the words of Jesus: \u201cHow much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him\u201d (Luke 11:13). The Holy Spirit is the one who makes real in us all that Jesus did on our behalf.
\u201cFor everyone who asks receives.\u201d This doesn\u2019t mean that if we don\u2019t ask, we\u2019ll get nothing; God \u201ccauses his sun to rise on the evil and the good\u201d alike (Matthew 5:45). But until we ask, we won\u2019t receive from God directly. To receive from God directly means that we have come into a specific relationship with him\u2014we have become his children\u2014 and now we perceive, with moral appreciation and spiritual under- standing, that all things come from him.
\u201cIf any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God\u201d (James 1:5). If you realize you lack wisdom, it is because you\u2019ve come into contact with spiritual reality, and your eyes have been opened. Don\u2019t put on the blinders of reasonableness again. Don\u2019t listen when people say, \u201cBe reasonable; preach the simple gospel. Don\u2019t tell us we have to be holy, because that makes us feel abjectly poor.\u201d
If we are abjectly poor, we are in the right condition for asking. \u201cAsk\u201d means \u201cbeg.\u201d We must ask out of poverty. If instead we ask out of greed, we\u2019ll never receive. We must ask because we know that, without God, we have nothing. A pauper isn\u2019t ashamed to beg. Paupers beg because they are poor; there is no other reason. Blessed are the paupers in spirit (Matthew 5:3).
By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For everyone who asks receives. \u2014 Luke 11:10 There is nothing more difficult than to ask. We desire and crave and suffer, but only when we\u2019ve reached our absolute limit do we ask. What finally makes us ask God for the Holy Spirit is a sense of unreality. We sense that we are not spiritually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}