'Enlarge your desires
Enlarge your desires and your prayers!
Enlarge your desires and your prayers! Do not ask merely for mercies, and favors, and ordinary gifts.
Do not ask God merely to give you bread, and health, and friends, and prosperity. Do not content yourself with asking . . .
for grace to help in temptation,
or for strength to fill up your weakness,
or for wisdom to guide you in confusion,
or for holiness and purity and power.
Ask for God Himself, and then open your heart to receive Him.
If you have God — then you have all other gifts and blessings in Him. God is willing to give you Himself for the asking, not merely the favors and benefits which His hand provides. Ask for great things!
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think!" Ephesians 3:20
"He has all — who has the haver of all." Augustine