Strong Desires for Ourselves & Others, Part 2 (TMF:2099)

Thursday, May 25, 2023
Peace to Live By: Strong Desires for Ourselves & Others, Part 2 (TMF:2099) - Daniel Litton
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       Last time I checked, we are not superhero’s that people must have an experience with to be saved. Trust God; let him work as he decides to. Now James points to another problem in our asking scenario. Verse 3: “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.” Perhaps the real reason why we ask God to give us an opportunity to talk to someone we want to share with is simply because we want to have a story to go back and tell our friends. Or, maybe, in fact, it is because we believe we are commanded to do so, and therefore have to meet a certain quota in order to satisfy the God of the Universe on his laid out instructions. This is all so pointless. God looks down from heaven and laughs. He laughs because we have taken such a great responsibility upon our shoulders, as if it’s all up to us to make sure people come into relationship with him. Do we feel the Holy Spirit has retired, and doesn’t do anything anymore?