Seed for May 8

I Jn 5:14-15
14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
15 And if we know that he hears us-- whatever we ask-- we know that we have what we asked of him.
(NIV)

The secret to having every prayer answered is in the above verse. “Ask anything according to the Will of God and you have it”. Problem is most don’t live by the will of God, or the Tree of Life, but by their own desires and directions, trying to persuade and beg God to go along with them!

Watchman Nee put it this way. The Lord will not lead you without making provision for you. So when I seek the will of God, I am watching for provision. (example) “God really wants me to go and preach in Africa, but I don’t have any money and no way over there. When I pray I still have no provisions. I keep praying but nothing happens, and no way to Africa is made.” Answer to this prayer “Africa is not God’s will for me.” No provision was made. There is no open door.

No Army is going to send a soldier into battle and not equip him, transport him, and feed him. Neither will the Lord Jesus lead us by His own Spirit where He will not provide everything necessary to perform His will. We should be looking for open doors when we pray, and not trying to pray for “closed” doors to be opened. Be blessed.