Have You Checked Your Heart's Intent When You Ask Things Of God?

What is it that you are asking God for?   Are you asking Him to help you and to heal you?   Are you asking Him to supply your every need?   Are you asking Him for strength and for power?   Are you asking Him for restoration and for peace?   Whatever it is that you are asking God for, do you truly trust Him to give it to you?  

A lot of times we ask God for things amiss.   The word amiss means "in a wrong way".    The Bible says in the book of James that we ask things of God but we ask amiss.   We have to understand that there is a right way and a wrong way to come to God and to ask things of God.    We are not to ask things of God just because we lust after them.    We have to have a right heart and our intentions must be in line with His Word and His will for our lives.   

So before we ask anything of God, we should always check our hearts intent.   We need to know what our intention and our purpose is behind what we are asking for.   Is it just for our own glory and satisfaction or is it to glorify God and to satisfy His plan and His purpose in the earth.   To satisfy means to meet the expectations, needs, and desires of someone.   We should be living our lives in a way that meets God's expectations for us and not just to fulfill our lustful desires.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

James 4:3 

King James Version (KJV)

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.