God Says You are Going to Have to Ask Me

God says, “You are going to have to ask Me.” How does God make good on His promises? Are you ready for a change in your life? I’ve heard people say, “if God wants me to have something, He will give it to me…” That is not true. Through the prophet Isaiah we are commanded to remind the Lord of His goodness until we see it manifest in our lives:

[Isa 62:6-7 KJV] … keep not silence, 7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

In Psalm 74:20, the writer asks God to do those things that He had already promised to do according to His covenant:

Psalms 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

My wife Kitty was on a prayer walk one day and very heavy-hearted for deep needs in her life. The Lord spoke to her, saying, “You are going to have to ask Me…” There is something powerful about the spoken word out of your mouth. In the beginning, God created the universe through His words. In Gen. 1:3, God said, and the Spirit moved. Smith Wigglesworth said, “If the Spirit doesn’t move, I move the Spirit!” How do we move God? By our words. He invites us to hold Him accountable to His words by OUR words of faith. Genesis doesn’t say “God thought…” but instead, God said. It doesn’t say “God wished…” but instead, God said. What are you saying?

The reply to that question might be, “I’m praying, but nothing is happening…” Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen (Heb. 11:1). Faith comes by hearing and hearing, but the word of God (Rom. 10:17). What are you hearing? Are you hearing a contaminated narrative? What would that be? What is in your heart in abundance gets out into your life. What are you hearing? The news? What the talking heads are saying or what God is saying? The dominant narrative of your life determines what happens next in your life. Jesus warned us to be careful how we hear and what we hear for out of the heart are the issues of life. If you are praying and not getting answers, you need to do some housekeeping in your ears and mind and heart. God wants to answer prayer, but you must go to Him according to His word’s requirements.

What is prayer? Prayer is 1.) ascertaining God’s will through His word and His Spirit. 2.) Returning His will to Him in prayer, and 3.) God performs His will according to His promise.

In the darkest day of my life, a prophet spoke to me, saying, “let your mouth pray…” I obeyed that word, and God moved in my life miraculously. What about you? Let your mouth pray. If answers are long in coming, realize that your prayers are only as strong as the saturation of God’s word in your heart. If you are so spiritual that you don’t think you need to fill your heart and mind with God’s word, then brother or sister, you are TOO spiritual. God honors His word, not on the nightstand but in your heart.

God yearns to answer prayer. He sent Jesus to the cross to bring answered prayer about in your life. He isn’t a “feel good” God or a perverted mercy God. He is a promise-keeping God when we turn to Him. When you speak God’s word, you bring Him on the scene in your life, and then things will change in your situation.