God has granted us the right to ask, and he has promised to grant our requests. However, we must likewise be concerned with knowing God’s will. He will not give us anything if our request is contrary to his plan.
The Bible exhorts us to look for a few specific things in order to advance spiritually. Most of the time, we look for earthly goods and get irritated when we don’t find them. But the Lord wants us to give those things so that we can gain access to his kingdom.
Regularly reading the Lord’s words will enable us to know what we should ask of him and will enable us to know what we should seek from him. Our prayers are always heard by the Lord, and when we make requests that are in line with his will, we will undoubtedly receive what we ask for.
When we pray, we must also have trust that he will grant our requests. Being a loving parent, he is aware of all of our requirements. In a timely manner, he will give us the stuff we request.
Here are a few verses from the Bible that will explain how and why we should ask the Lord for things, and the verses that follow will reassure us that God will meet our needs when we need them. In order to experience God’s magnificent plan for us, let’s read and reflect on it.
2 Peter 1:3(KJV) According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Luke 11:9(KJV) And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Luke 6:38(KJV) Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Philippians 4:19(KJV) But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
John 4:14(KJV) But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John 15:7(KJV) If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Matthew 5:6(KJV) Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
John 16:23(KJV) And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
James 1:17(KJV) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Matthew 7:7(KJV) Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Acts 5:32(KJV) And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Mark 11:24(KJV) Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
1 John 3:22(KJV) And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Matthew 21:22(KJV) And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Matthew 7:11(KJV) If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
1 John 5:14(KJV) And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.
John 15:16(KJV) Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Luke 11:13(KJV) If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
James 4:3(KJV) Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
1 Kings 3:5(KJV) In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
Hebrews 4:16(KJV) Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
James 1:5(KJV) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Psalm 37:4(KJV) Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
John 14:13(KJV) And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:14(KJV) If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
1 John 5:15(KJV) And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
John 16:24(KJV) Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Matthew 18:19(KJV) Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
2 Timothy 3:16(KJV) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
Romans 5:5(KJV) And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
James 4:2(KJV) Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Acts 20:35(KJV) I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Matthew 7:8(KJV) For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Acts 2:38(KJV) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
2 Corinthians 9:8(KJV) And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.
2 Corinthians 4:16(KJV) For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
