Faith Filled Family Magazine November 2016 | Page 62

and he or she said, “Yes!” “I
know you very well, and I believe
the problem could be something
you’ve done.” How would you
feel, or what would you say?
Consider the Book of John:
Chapter 16, Verse 24 ~
“Until now you have not asked
for anything in my name. Ask,
and you will receive, and your
joy will be complete.”
Maybe it isn’t what we are asking, so much as how we are
asking? I know you have heard
that before. Then perhaps there
are other times when it could be
what we are asking.
What do people ask God? What
would make your life better? For
some, it is something monetary.
A house, a car, money in the
bank, an early retirement, or a retirement at all. Others want love
from a family, a husband or wife,
children, and friends. Some look
forward to a job with a steady
income or a college degree providing them stability in the job
market. Celebrities and athletes
need the necessary talent to
fulfill their dreams. If a celebrity
lose their beauty over time, or
an athlete gets injured, they can
become unable to continue their
career. In the highlight of their
careers, they have reached a
place in their life where a barrier
has kept them from seeing past
where they are.
This barrier could be worry or
doubt, and has presented itself to make a point. What happens to these people? Do they
get frustrated or concerned? Of
course, this is their livelihood or
the way they live their life, and
for something to take away their

have nowhere to turn. God’s
word tells us we can call on him
for anything and at any time.
For some people, they wait until the worst possible thing happens, they reach out to God, and
then smite with words when their
world isn’t corrected as quickly
as they’d hoped. There are also
times in the lives of God’s people when just the opposite happens. What about those times
And for the people who get up when people must face the fact
and go to work every day, who their lives will not be corrected,
have no idea what this life mir- or at least not as far as life unrors? They come to the realiza- folds in sheets of doubt such as
tion this has happened to them in the Book of James: Chapter 1,
before, and you must simply find Verses 6-7 ~
another dream. For the celebrity
or the athlete, there is no other “But when you ask, you must bedream; there is only this dream. lieve and not doubt, because the
Therefore, the only option is not one who doubts is like a wave of
that different, right? And there the sea, blown and tossed by the
we have our answer. Have you wind. 7 That person should not
ever heard the phrase, “Don’t expect to receive anything from
treat someone like a priority if the Lord.”
they treat you like an option”?
Let’s ponder that a moment. For those individuals who have
Why would God want to listen come to the Lord, or for those
to you pray for a better tomor- people who have accepted God
row when he’s been an option as their Lord and Savior, their
all this time? If the athlete, the entire life revolves around God’s
celebrity, or you are worried be- word. Every Christian knows
cause of how things have turned each person will reach a day of
out, and since you feel you have deliverance. For every mature
lost everything, you go to God Christian, every sin is recognizin prayer. In the Book of Philip- able at a greater magnitude and
every good deed, hardly noticed.
pians: Chapter 4, Verses 6-7 ~
Their whole life is spent just like
“Do not be anxious about any- this. God’s word may tell Christhing, but in every situation, by tians to be perfect, but for a
prayer and petition, with thanks- Christian, this is an impossible
giving, present your requests to standard to achieve, because
God. 7 And the peace of God, God is not with us. God does not
which transcends all under- leave us in those times of need.
standing, will guard your hearts Lately, we have been experiencand your minds in Christ Jesus.” ing terrorist attacks in our country and other nations around the
In every situation, this verse world. Does that mean God will
says, not when the world came shield all of his followers, and alcrashing down, and you feel you low only those who do not know
endurance, their strength, their
ability to do the only thing they
feel they can do? For them, this
is a roadblock and the life they
have known, the only life they
have ever known is over. What
happens when these people
break down? Whether it be worry or doubt, they know nothing
other than what they’ve done, or
the dream they once had?