Dearly Beloved,

DO NOT BE AT FAULT

“You want something but don't get it. …You do not have,
because you do not ask God” (James 4:2, NIV).

My children normally get sets of biscuits every morning
as they go to school for refreshment apart from the
food they take for their breakfast. My wife and I
forgot to give them the biscuits one day, and none of
them remembered to remind us as they normally do. When
they came back from the school, the elder one, my son,
accused us their parents for not giving them biscuits
that day. My response was, “Did you ask for them?” He
could not defend himself because he knew that he also
shared in the fault of not remembering about the usual
sets of biscuits that day. He was the first to remind
us the following day about the biscuits as they were
about to set out for school.

There is a spiritual lesson in this event. Our heavenly
Father has many blessings and provisions in store for
us. He has been given us these blessings and He will
continue to give us. While He is not a forgetful Father
like any earthly father, He wants us, however, to ask
Him what we want. Jesus Christ said, “Ask and it will
be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the
door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks
receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks,
the door will be opened. Which of you, if his son asks
for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a
fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you
are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father in heaven give good
gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:7-11, NIV).

Are you in need of any good thing? Come boldly to the
throne of grace and ask (Hebrew 4:16). John said, “This
is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if
we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And
if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know
that we have what we asked of Him” (1 John 5:14-15,
NIV). Do not be at fault in not asking. Hear Jesus
Christ again, “Until now you have not asked for
anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your
joy will be complete” (John 16:24, NIV).

In His service,

Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).

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