"From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts."
In today's short lesson, James explained why so many who presume to pray don't have their prayers answered in the way they prefer.
God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, will indeed give us anything we ask for so long as our prayers don't run contrary to the good of others, and, if they are always asked from a heart that is truly concerned with the common good instead of our own selfish advantage. That means that if we pray to take away someone else's wellbeing, or if we pray to cause them harm or just to increase our own wealth or better our own earthly situation, that prayer will not be granted. However, if we pray for wealth so as to better and more comfortably minister to our own needs as well as the needs of those around us, I believe those prayers will always be answered.~
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