4-26-2019

 Good Morning All,

    John 14: 13-14; “I will do anything you ask the Father in my name so that the Father will be given glory because of the Son.  If you ask me to do something, I will do it.”

    When you were younger, did you use to imagine about the world?  Did you ask or get asked, “If you could be anything in the world; what would you be?”  How about, “If you could go anywhere; where would you go?”  Most of us had some wonderful dreams and wishes.  Some were fanciful; some were heroic.  So where did you want to go or what did you want to be?  Was it some exotic faraway place?  Did you want to be an astronaut or a famous doctor?  Did you dream of your successful business?  What did you dream?

    In the Bible, many people dreamed to.  Isaac and Rebekah dreamed of a child, so did Hannah and Elizabeth.  Samuel dreamed of a godly king.  Ruth dreamed of a husband.  Many people dreamed of something that they longed for.  They hoped for something; they held the desire in their heart.  Yet these had one more element; they prayed for God’s help and answer.

     Maybe praying to be an astronaut might have been a stretch (but then maybe not); yet we do not often pray for God’s help.  We may think we are unworthy, we may think that what we pray for is not important to God.  Maybe we doubt that God can or wants to answer our prayers.  Whatever the reason, we often miss out on one of God’s greatest blessings.  Yet when we pray in a faithful fashion, God promises to hear and to answer our prayers.  We hear that over and over in the Bible; Matthew, Luke, John are just a few that repeatedly tells us to ask or to call upon his name.  So, do we?

    Look at our verse, anything you ask.  God wants to bless you far more than you can ever imagine.  He wants you to call upon his name and trust that he will answer.  He wants you to be at peace, he wants you to be content and to live in hope; yet we continue to falter and we continue to miss out on his grace.  Too often we look too short, and fall even shorter.  Yet God continues to invite you to call upon his name and to ask of him.

    The promise of answered prayers; the promise to work in us and through us.  God’s love for us exceeds anything we can ever imagine or dream.  Yet we limit ourselves because we limit our faith.  We have God’s promise to answer our prayers beyond anything we could ever dream or imagine and we turn away from it.  Trust God, have faith in his promise to you.  Receive his blessings for your life.
Dear Father, your mercies are new every day.  Forgive us when we fail to call upon your name.  Forgive us when we fail to trust in you fully.  Give us the faith to trust you.  Give us the holy desire to seek your blessings.  Keep us close to you send your spirit of comfort to those who are in the most need of your comfort.  In Jesus’ precious name we pray, amen.

God’s Peace,

Pastor Bret