If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. [Matthew 21:21]
If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. [John 14:14]
Ask, and it will be given you. [Matthew 7:7]
Nothing will be impossible to you. [Matthew 17:20]
2007-11-16 00:28:05 · 18 answers · asked by Fred S - AM Cappo Di Tutti Capi 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
IT DOESN'T SAY "BUT ONLY IF YOU ASK FOR WHAT I WANT TO GIVE YOU."
2007-11-16 01:41:58 · update #1
When someone prays for a family member to be cured of cancer, that doesn't mean "cured of cancer after they die and are in heaven."
2007-11-16 01:43:28 · update #2
"And Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it will happen."
Utter nonsense, correct?
2007-11-16 01:45:57 · update #3
http://bible.cc/matthew/21-21.htm
2007-11-16 01:46:30 · update #4
So you are only allowed to ask God to sdo what He was going to do anyway? IT DOES NOT SAY THAT.
2007-11-16 01:47:15 · update #5
The fault in your reasoning: He never said it would be received, done, given, or accomplished in the time frame you hope for.
So if you, right now, pray and ask for a million dollars, who's to say you won't get it in the afterlife? Should you presume that God's "yes" means "yes now"?
Also, you missed that prepositional phrase "in my name." That doesn't mean using the word "Jesus" like it was a magical incantation. To do something in a person's name was a euphemism in Jesus's time to do something with that person's mindset and heart. So, since Jesus wouldn't ask for a million dollars, then if you pray and ask for a million dollars you aren't praying "in His name," so that invalidates the promise right there.
Of course I don't believe any of that. The thrust of Jesus's or the gospel writers' ideas of prayer was that it is important. The rest is fluff or "literary license."
2007-11-16 00:32:05 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
There are requirements, or Bush wouldn't have become President....
Anyway, it has to be in God's will. If you look at John 14:13-the last part of the verse says "that the Father may be glorified in the Son." If what you are asking doesn't glorify the Father through the Son, it's not going to happen. God can and probably will say no to some of your prayers. It has to be for the glory of God, not so a certain man doesn't put us into the worst military situation is Vietnam.
EDIT: Though Jon M usually jumps the fence on such questions, he nailed this one on the head. Look at his answer too.
2007-11-16 00:37:09 · answer #2 · answered by tcjstn 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You need to study more about the topic of prayer.
Asking something in the name of Jesus does not mean that if I say "in the name of Jesus" God does not have any other option but to grant my petition. "In the name of Jesus" are not magical words to transform a wrong or evil prayer into reality.
Asking something "In the name of Jesus" requires asking something Jesus would ask his Father. See I John 5:14
"And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:" The prayer must be according to His will.
Nothing is imposible to God, but He choose to do things His way. If I pray to have your head served to me in a silver plate, God will say NO !
Sometimes our prayers are "edited" b y the Holy Spirit because we do not know what to ask (and end up asking the wrong thing). Romans 8:26 "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered."
Check Ephesians 3:20, God sometimes instead of providing what we ask, He does something better. "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us".
2007-11-16 01:23:53 · answer #3 · answered by Darth Eugene Vader 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-16 23:05:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your prayer must be in line with His spirit and will. If I ask God to make someone I don't like drop dead, obviously the answer is going to be no.
By submitting yourself to Him in humility and reverence, your prayers will line up with His will. The important thing to remember is that trust in Him, no matter what His answer, is what counts, not whether we got what we wanted or not. He knows what's best for us even when we don't, and so that is why trust is so vital.
God bless.
2007-11-16 02:20:12 · answer #5 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "No" is an answer in response to the request prayed. The key to a positive response is the sincerity, honesty, need and belief of the request. No prayer goes unanswered. The individual making the request is lacking in the four requirements whether you like it or not.
2007-11-16 00:44:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Matthews 21:21 is to do with faith no prayer
If you can't get 1 verse right I am not going to both reading the rest of them.
2007-11-16 00:35:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
because it depends on the request. some people will pray for a million bucks and when they don't get it that is clearly a no. when they pray for enough money to make it til the next pay day however, they get it. the lesson here is it's what's in the heart and how much you actually need.
2007-11-16 00:32:57 · answer #8 · answered by KZ 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He doesn't mean he will give us anything we ask for. Sometimes His answer is no. Everything is in His will. We have to pray the will of God not our fleshly desires.
2007-11-16 01:04:40 · answer #9 · answered by myste15 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows us better than God. he is NOT going to allow us have whatever we ask for, especially if it is NOT good for us!
Like a loving father, God, too, will only let us have what is GOOD for us!
These verses are NOT a free pass for whatever we want!
2007-11-16 00:33:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋