crawling, walking, running : abiding

You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
james 4:3

Ask, and it will be given to you, seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened.
matthew 7:7

Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the son.
john 14:13

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.
matthew 21:22


Abide in Him until His & your desires are one.  Until your thoughts are His & your plans are the ones He has written & drawn.  He is a Good Father, the Good Shepherd.  "You shall not bow down to [images] or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God,visiting the iniquity of the fathers to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments." (Exo. 20:5-6)
O, how He loves us and longs for us.  He is jealous over any desire that is not made in HIS HEART, any image that we follow other than the desires of our Good Father.  These are to be our heart's cry.  Crying out for everything of Him - His Kingdom come!  His is the only one that satisfies, every other desire makes us RESTLESS.  These are not the good gifts He longs to give us.  When we pursue His heart and REST in the hearing of His heartbeat - walking in step with that beat.  When these requests flow from our mouths out of the overflow of His heart, how He will pour out those desires and fulfill.  As our hearts mirror His, we can move freely, ask freely, love freely.  We can ask the rain to stop, to come.  The captive to be set free.  The healing of a broken one.  The law of man to have no hold, as we walk in the Law of Love of the High King. Crawling to walking to running in step with His heart, His commandments, because of our love for Him - how satisfying to the soul.

I want more of You, Jesus!  I want more of You, Jesus!  I want more of You, Jesus!