ASKING FOR MORE

James 4:2 NKJV …Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

There is a famous quote from Charles Dickens’ novel, where the boy Oliver asks for more and as I sat the other morning I felt the Lord say, “You can always ask for more!” I’m already asking for a lot but He said ask for more!😊 Whatever it is you need, whether it’s more grace, more strength, family to be saved, more money, a better job, more wisdom, more health, for your marriage to be sweeter, for a spouse, whatever you need, God says we can ask for more!

I hope that encourages you to get your faith out today, to brush it off and look at what you’ve been asking God for so far. The bible tells us repeatedly to ask God for things, so He means what He says and wants to grab our attention! 

How is your asking lately? Have you been asking for anything at all or has your asking been too small? What vision/dream have you written down for your life? Remember, where there is no vision the people perish!😊

God wants our ‘ask’ to grow with our faith, to believe He can do the impossible. To not just ask for the possible but to stretch our faith and ask for the impossible.😊 Stretch our faith to see ourselves doing whatever is in our heart, no matter how far out of reach it is at the minute. Stretch our faith to see ourselves going to the places God has given us a desire to go, to see ourselves growing in our relationship with God where we know Him more deeply.

God is not fazed by how big our ‘Ask’ is!  The command is to ask, and God said to David at one point, ‘I would have given you more if you had asked!’ Are we asking? See it in your mind and ask for it!

God wants us to know Him, to trust Him and to believe Him for great things. We may be praying for a family member to be saved, God says He will give us nations! You may be praying for money to pay the rent or the monthly mortgage. God says to ask for it to be paid off in full! God wants us to expand our thinking, expand our asking, but also to expand our receiving.

We may have a choke hold on so that it’s hard to receive because we don’t feel we deserve it, or we have false humility, or small thinking. God says to take the choke hold off!

Let His Spirit do what He wants to do for you, and in you, and simply ‘Ask for more!”, ask for something that only He can do, that let’s others see our God is awesome!😊 In Jesus name. Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊

SIMPLY ME- SIMPLY YOU

2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Sometimes we can get all knotted up about who we’re meant to be, who God wants us to be. The thing is, we know we’re all a work in progress and God tells us He gives us a completely new identity in Christ when we get saved and ask Jesus to be the Lord of our lives.

Scripture tells us the old ‘me’ was crucified with Christ, buried with Christ and the new creation ‘me’ rose again with Jesus from the dead. The same goes for you if Jesus is your Saviour, but the trouble is we forget and still have the mentality of the ‘old’ me. That is why Romans 12:2 tells us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. If we don’t take the trouble to renew our minds according to what God says about us we will be trying to live the Christian life with the ‘old’ identity which doesn’t work, which accounts for why we feel frustrated sometimes!😊

God has written all the days of our lives in His book and nowhere does He ask us to be like someone else, or to compare ourselves to anyone else. He calls us to run our own race and not try to run in someone else’s lane!  He hasn’t called us to compete, but to be complete. He says we are complete in Christ. (Colossians 2:10 NKJV and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.)

In other words He calls me to be simply me; the complete ‘me’ He has already created me to be in my spirit, the me He is continually making me to be in my soul, and the complete you He has made you and is making you to be.😊 The new me, the new you, is anointed by God, seated in heavenly places in Christ at the right hand of God far above principalities and powers. We are filled with the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. We are joint heirs with Christ and He won’t withhold any good thing from us. He has given us His authority, the same authority Jesus had when He walked on the earth.

We are all of the above and so much more, if we’ll study and find out what God says we have and are, because that’s who we simply are! Simply ‘me’ is all of the above. Simply you is all of the above! 😊

Father, please give us revelation of our new identity in Christ, of who we really are and help us to simply be who You have already created us to be in Christ. Amen.

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