Curing our asking

Curing our Asking

[My Offline Bible] 1 Kings 3
10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. 11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; 12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. 13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.

In the studies of prayer, the mode of asking is seriously important. Jesus pointed out to us clearly how prayer is all about asking that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
We also learn from the 1st epistle of Apostle John 5:14&14 that our asking should be in line with the will of God.

James 4:1-3 teaches that asking must not be selfish, it must not be to encourage our lusts and covetousness.

And I'm sure God is serious about that.

Solomon's prayer though offered in an unusual place drew God's attention. God asked him to ask whatever He wanted.  The blank check is also what we have in Christ if only we wouldn't go into the place of prayer with unforgiveness in our hearts. Mark 11:24&25

Solomon had asked God for things pertaining to the kingdom and how to be all God wanted him to be as a king of God's unusual people to deal with.

That excited God. Was it because God didn't know he was going to ask that? I'm sure God knew but he wanted that documented for us who shall come afterwards.

God commended him, and rewarded him by giving him what he didn't ask for.

God narrated the things he had refused to ask for. He didn't ask for long life: he would have thought of that so as to long enjoy the throne of his father. God gave him with conditions.

He didn't ask for riches. That was important because a king who is poor would hardly command anyone's respect. With riches and wealth, you don't need much in character to be respected by the most base of men. God gave this to him without measure!

He didn't ask for the lives of his enemies. A wicked enemy is enough to do much evil and destroy many lives. It should be nice to take them out first before they can think of any enterprise. But that too he didn't ask for. God gave him no promise but rather shut the enemies up all the days of his reign.

These are things ordinary people will ask for and would be justified in self. And that has become the errors of our day.

Well, didn't God give us a blank check too? Yes, with the blank check He still searches the thoughts and the intents of our hearts as we ask.

Why do we keep asking with many not having any resemblance of result? Isn't God faithful anymore?
He remains faithful, but only that we need a cure for our asking.

Many asking these days come from evil and ungodly intents that have no respect for either the kingdom or the people of God. Our demands wouldn't care if others perish while we succeed and take over their estates.

We won't mind God killing people just because they don't fit into our preferred mode, to many all who offend them should die the death....

Yet we wonder why even the most justified of our prayer points prayed with all manners of fasting, self abatement and demeaning abasement don't move God.

The heart of bitterness, anger, vengeance and competition with evil desires for other creatures of God no matter how we justify such would never produce the same kind of result Solomon's prayer produced rather we risk God's own judgments, for the price of forgiveness is forgiveness and the price of mercy is mercy.

We need a cure for our asking to get our prayers right and answerable. We need a less rancorous, a more loving, more godlike, more focus and life's purpose-driven heart at the place of prayer to get God moving again in the miraculous without much stress!

I'm sure asking God for what He wants for us for the same reasons why He wants such for us won't demand having to force Him to make them happen at His time!

I'm sure we'll all be better off asking God for what would make us please God than trying to make God do our bidding on those who offend us, who may not have offended God except if we see nothing in usurping God's position when we can't even heal a fly talk less of creating one like Him!

I hardly care about what God does to my enemies if  they don't repent, but I care much about what God does to me and His people in His good pleasure so I work my asking to suit the latter and less of the former!

I'm sure we have a lot to learn from Solomon's attitude here and I'm sure also that when we learn it, our blank check will produce much more from God than dealing with our enemies without anything positive happening in our lives and in His kingdom....

Good day friends!

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