Written by Favour Ifeoluwa Olanrewaju.

It’s been a while and I want to start by apologizing for my inconsistency. I’ve been busy.

So Happy Sunday family, and please do well to go to church.

John 16: 24   Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

To ask means to request or desire to have something in a polite or normal way.

At different points of our lives, we desire to have something, we want something and then we ask or make requests. Concomitantly, it’s everyone’s desire to receive an answer to his requests.

But there are disappointments. In fact, man is bound to disappoint and be disappointed. Man can promise to grant you a request and fail. There’s no one here who hasn’t disappointed anyone or been disappointed.

 If a child asks his father for something but then his father fails to grant the child the request even though he wishes the child will be sad and disappointed. The only one that never fails is God. The supernatural being who you can ask for anything at any time and he will grant your request especially if it is according to His will.

And guess what; In His word, Christ already urged us to ask, to ask him for anything; backing with His promise that our requests will be granted.

Matthew 7:7 “ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”

A.S.K means Ask, Seek and Knock at Heaven’s gate.

All we just need to do is to pray with faith and wait patiently for His answers which always come.

There is power in the name of Jesus

The name of Jesus moves God to our prayers.

Philippians 2: 9 – 11 “ Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”.

We have another condition to the promise of “ask and receive” in John 14:14, “You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.” Here, Jesus does not promise His disciples anything and everything they want; rather, He instructs them to ask “in my name.”

And when we ask, he will surely do. It’s already written down, in God’s word; John 14:13-14

A song lyric goes thus;

You seem discouraged, clouds around you
Your life full of problems don't know what to do
Racing troubled thoughts trying to work things out
Instead of turning to the One who loves you
He can work it out

Seems at the time a hard place to be
No one around you, who cares how you feel
Fearful and alone, your spirit in despair
Call to the one who's near you, he'll always lend an ear

God answers prayer
Yes, yes, yes he does
God answers prayer
I know, I know, he will…

Today is Sunday. Go to church and talk to God out of a sincere heart, he will answer.