Asking the Father

UV 3708/10000 Asking The Father Until now you have not asked ( the Father) for anything in My name; but now ask and keep on asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be full and complete. John 16 v 24 We need to read this uni-verse in conjunction with the verse that says, with God nothing is impossible.” We can ask the Father in the name of Jesus who is the Yes and Amen to all God’s promises. Jesus authorises us to use His name to petition the Father, to ask the Father as His other children, the siblings of Jesus. He gives us the sense of inheritance as a co-heir for whatever belongs to the Father also belongs to Jesus and to us. We need to ask imaginatively, understanding that we should expect no ordinary things or response to our prayers. The reason He answers abundantly, exceeding even our imagination is that He wants our joy to be full, complete, lacking in no good thing. We also need to ask with faith, complete trust in the Father that He has our best interests at heart. We need to keep expanding our faith in order to ask more and ask with more expectation. The more we believe, the more we receive. We can pray for our present and future and eternal needs, our internal and external needs. Thanking God in anticipation is not to twist His arm, so to say, but to sincerely express our trust in His love and His care for us as no parent would want their children to come to harm but to bless them with whatever they genuinely need which falls in their capacity. The difference is that there is no limit to the capacity of the Father or the Son to answer our prayers. Jesus is saying in the uni-verse that until now we never asked with this level of faith or trust as we did not have a personal relationship with the Father. Now that Jesus as the way, the truth and the life has facilitated it, we have an intimate relationship with the Father as children do, we need not hesitate to ask the Father. The Father does know our needs but He expects us to ask, to ask persistently and to ask with faith and thanksgiving, grateful for all the answers He has already sent our way. We, however should not rejoice in the blessings He gives us, the answers He responds with but we should rejoice again and again in Him. He is the oasis in the desert wasteland of life of whom we should drink deep and often.