Claim Your Promises
“For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” 1 John 3:20-22
“Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” 1 John 5:14
Though God does not need convincing yet He loves when we set our needs and even our innermost desires before Him because it is an expression of our faith and our trust in Him.
God has given us the right to ask and to claim anything according to His will, and we should expect Him to answer our request when we have confidence that we are asking for what He desires. Even if our heart condemns us, we can trust that God is greater than our hearts and will answer prayers according to His good will.
Sometimes this requires discernment, and so we must wait on Him and ask for His wisdom before naming and claiming what we want.
Are you committed to the will of God? Are you determined to know and to ask for the things He loves to give?
If so, plead His blood over your heart and be released from condemnation; then ask according to His will!
The Lord’s gifts are manifold, and He wants us to ask for them, according to His own Word, fully expecting answers. He loves your faith and will respond out of His great goodness.