Many times we doubt God’s willingness to meet our needs or give us the desires of our hearts. We call our fear ‘contentment’ and think that our Father is just like us…..limited.

Meditate on the following verses and ask yourself; Does God mean what He says? Better yet, ask Him!

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. (Mt. 7:7-8)

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! (Mt. 7:11)

Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. (Mt. 18:19)

And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive. (Mt. 21:22)

Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. (Mk. 11:24)

And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (Jn. 14:13)

If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. (Jn. 14:14)If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. (Jn. 15:7)

Whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. (Jn. 15:16)

And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. (Jn. 16:23)

Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. (Jn. 16:24)

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. (James 1:5)

Yet you do not have because you do not ask. (James 4:2)

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. (1 Jn. 5:14-15)

Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32)

God really cares for you. Believe Him and receive!

by Barry Bennett (shared with permission)