Sometimes, we ask God for things.  We feel an overwhelming need to petition our Father for things, for answers, for others, for His presence, for renewal....Well, for many different reasons.  We wonder if we are doing the right thing when we pray.  This is not uncommon.  

I keep two 3x5 sets of cards.  In my red notebook, I have dated prayers for such requests.  I have prayers for family, for friends, for my country and its leaders.  I have prayers which have formed from passages that I have read and am studying...Verses through which God speaks to me.  This notebook also contains all of the things for which I thank God and worship Him.  These cards contain my fears, anxieties and struggles with this world and my need for Him in every area of my life.

In my blue notebook, I also have dated Bible verses which have touched me.  As I read His Word, sometimes particular passages "jump off the page" for me, like love letters from God.  I keep those in this notebook.  These are "stand alones" which God has given me to ponder and reflect upon.  These cards are sectioned off into areas like: How to Pray, Salvation, etc.  I am always adding new sections.

I review my red notebook every time I go to study His Word.  It puts me in the right frame of mind to hear Him when He speaks to me.  

I review my blue notebook whenever God leads me to add another card to it.

If I am called home, I pray that these two sets of cards will lead my family and others to their eternal home.  I pray that these cards will touch their lives as God has touched mine.  They are my living witness and testimony in written form, demonstrating my love for Our Father and for our world, His Creation,  and for them.  

Today, I feel led to offer to you my 3x5 notecard prayer entitled, "Ask".  It is from my red notebook.

Ask

(Matthew 7:7-8)

"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."

Open your words to me, O Lord, that I might understand.

(James 4:2-3)

"You lust and do not have.  

You murder and covet and cannot obtain.  

You fight and war.  

Yet you do not have because you do not ask.  

You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures."

Purify my heart, O God, that I might ask of Thee correctly and according to Thy will.

May this message enrich your relationship with Our God and may all of your prayers be answered according to Our Father's perfect will for your life.

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. – Luke 21:36