I Want a Hummer H2

“Prosperity Gospel” preachers always talk about how God wants to give us stuff.  All we have to do is ask.  The only thing standing in our way is us.  We don’t believe enough.  We don’t have enough faith.  They quote verses like Mark 11:24 “Whatever you ask for in prayer believe you have received it and it will be yours.”  Or John 14:14 “You may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it.”  Or John 15:7 “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be given to you.”  The REAL problem is that we overlook the really important parts of these kinds of verses.  The “catches” if you will.  Jesus said “If you REMAIN IN ME and my WORDS REMAIN IN YOU, ask whatever…”  The real key here isn’t about faith its about God’s word in us.  Heb 4:12 say “The word of God is LIVING and ACTIVE…”  It moves and grows, stretches, breathes and gives life.  It doesn’t sit still and do nothing.  James said that “faith without works is dead”.  In other words real faith doesn’t just talk, it walks.  It ‘does something’.  Jesus goes into even more depth in John 15 when he says “Now remain in my love, if you obey my commands you will remain in my love…”  So, to get what we want we not only have to be in the word, and have the word in us, in our hearts, but we need to obey it and do what it says.  Live it out and be “active” about it.  Then we can ask for “anything”.  But the real question is:

If you put God’s word in your heart and it becomes apart of you and it changes your life from the inside out, and you obey it and put it into practice and live it out, and more and more everyday you become like Jesus

Would you still be asking for a Hummer?

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