The halfbaked Bard

You do not have because you do not ask God. James:4:2 What a wonderful truth which corroborates with Jesus' admonition. Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you. So you do not have because you do not ask God. The equation is very simple. But is it possible that you ask and you do not receive?  V:3 when you ask, you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You ask with selfish motives, then you won't receive. Ask so that you will be useful for others. Ask so that you will be able to be spent for others. Let your perspective of receiving change.  Receive so that you will be spent. Because with selfish motives if you use what you have got, then it is friendship with world, which in turn is hatred to God. Lord help me to ask things with a selfless motive, so that I can be spent for others with my resources. That with all my resources, my health, my...

Dan:6:10 But when Daniel learned that the law has been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always do me, giving thanks to His God.  Three characters of Daniel are notable in this famous verse.  # When crisus came Daniel prayed. He did not fret. He did not try to solve it out by himself. He did not get angry. He did not feel helpless. He just went and prayed.  # As usual, just as he had always denotes his habit, his character. It was not in his crisis alone that he went to pray. It was his custom to pray. His normal routine. Come what may.  # As he prays he expresses his confidence in God by giving thanks to his God. He saw his friends being delivered from the fiery furnace, how his God delivered him from his troubles,  how God revealed to him meanings of dreams and visions. This too God will deliver, he was assured.  He continued hi...