God Loves It When You Ask of Him - Joseph Prince Daily Devotional (January-24-2024)

Joseph Prince (January-24-2024) Daily Devotional: God Loves It When You Ask of Him

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” Matthew 7:7–11

There was a man in the Bible by the name of Jabez. His name was rather unfortunate. It means “sorrow” because his mother “bore him in pain” (1 Chron. 4:9).

What a name to have! But Jabez cried out to God, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” (1 Chron. 4:10).

Some preachers claim that believers should not pray “selfish” prayers for themselves to be blessed. Jabez’s prayer would probably fall under their definition of a “selfish prayer” as it was all about him asking God to bless him, enlarge his territory, be with him, and protect him.

But God didn’t reprimand Jabez for asking Him for these blessings. Without any fanfare, the Bible in the very same verse simply records that “God granted him what he requested.”

That was all. No drama, no long list of what Jabez had to do or not do. It’s really that simple. God heard his prayer and granted his request! No rebuke, no instructions, no “Jabez, if you want Me to bless you, you must first do this.”

No, God honored the man’s faith and turned his sorrow into joy and his pain into blessings—all because he had an unshakable confidence in how good God is and asked big!

My friend, have a good opinion of God. He is not out to get you. He loves you and desires to unleash His favor into every area of your life. He loves it when you call upon Him. And He promised that He would answer when you do. Just see Him declaring to you Jeremiah 33:3: “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”

Could it be that we are not seeing many breakthroughs because we have made asking God for big things a taboo with our religious and legalistic rhetoric? Could it be that we are just not seeing many blessings because we have not been asking God and seeking Him with a confident expectation of good?

My friend, it gives your heavenly Father great joy when you ask Him. It’s His good pleasure to bless you as well as your family (Luke 12:32). Stop being held back by erroneous beliefs about God, and start asking Him for whatever is on your heart today!

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God Loves It When You Ask of Him - Joseph Prince Daily Devotional (January-24-2024)
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  • Comment Link Pamela Leonie Wednesday, 24 January 2024 03:42 posted by Pamela Leonie

    Morning Past Prince! What a joy it is to read your daily devotionals each morning. It strengthen me a lot and give me great courage to push forward as things are not going well with me and my husband. We've been struggling financially and phisically to provide in our needs since he stopped working in December 2021 at the age of 65.There was no pension pay out and we applied for a monthly pension from the military veterans and it was approved but up to today we haven't received anything yet. Sometimes it feels as giving up is our only outcome but we're holding on to God's promises and we stay on our knees. I can see through my spiritual eyes that God is working behind the scenes but nothing major has happened yet. Please pray for me and my husband cause it's really bad. As believers we're trying our best but things doesn't want to fall in place. We've been living a good life while he was still working but now!! Thank you for the daily devotionals we're trying to stay positive but it's very very hard sometimes. Keep doing the good work for the Lord and may you be blessed!!

  • Comment Link My darling Legae Tuesday, 24 January 2023 00:53 posted by My darling Legae

    Amen 🙏🙏

  • Comment Link Maureen swanepoel Monday, 23 January 2023 00:32 posted by Maureen swanepoel

    Good morning pastor prince thank you for this message and teaching this morning please pray for my suster in law and her husband thye must see the Dr today his heart not good hallelujah praised our mighty living God name amen and amen 🙏

Joseph Prince

Joseph Prince (born 15 May 1963, Singapore) is the senior pastor of New Creation Church in Singapore, one of Asia's biggest churches. He was one of the church's founders in 1983.

Joseph Prince, the son of a Sikh priest of Indian origin and a Chinese mother, spent his primary school years in Perak, Malaysia.

Prince changed his birth name to Joseph Prince during his previous occupation as an IT consultant.

Prince has been ...

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