'He answers our soul's needs
He answers our soul's needs
"You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures." James 4:3
No true prayer with the wings of faith goes unanswered — but many a prayer that seems unanswered is actually over-answered.
The very thing we ask, God does not grant — because He is able to do something infinitely better for us. We ask only for physical help or relief — and He sees that we need some far more spiritual blessing.
He answers our soul's needs — before He gratifies our personal wishes.
We ask for a material favor — and He does not give it to us; but instead He gives us a spiritual good to enrich us forever.
We ask for the lifting of a burden, or the removal of sorrow; but our plea is not granted in the form we ask — instead we receive new filling with the grace of Christ.
Thus many times our little prayers are really answered over and above our requests.
"No good thing does He withhold from those whose walk is blameless." Psalm 84:11
"The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing." Psalm 34:10
"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us — to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." Ephesians 3:20-21