Whatever You Ask

"If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you."

(John 15:7, 8, 16 NIV)

 

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you." (John 15:16 NIV)

 

There's passages all over the bible where Jesus says the Father will give us WHATEVER we ask. Really? Anything? I know too many beautiful people in terrible situations that are praying for rescue and yet to see it.

 

But I think the key is about this being to the Father's glory: I pray constantly for Him to take away the things that make me fall - the gaping holes in my spiritual walls that I know are there, yet I feel powerless to close. I think the point here is that God wants to help ME close those gaps, showing how he can transform a willing soul, rather than creating a spiritual automaton.  I know God sees the other side of our challenges when we can't, and sees His glory in there, somewhere.

 

Dear Father, give me a glimpse of the glory for You on the other side of my faults and failures, so I can be motivated to run the race laid out before me.