ASKING GOD, WHY?

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The act of making requests of another, as an expression of dependence. Scripture encourages believers to ask things of God in prayer, and gives guidance concerning the motivation in doing so.

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ASKING AS AN ASPECT OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS

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20 And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.

21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’

22 tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

23 For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.

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9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

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9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
See also ; ; The people asked for a king; ; ; ; the Magi seek the king of the Jews; Jesus Christ asks questions in the temple; ; ; ;

ASKING, EXAMPLES OF STRONGER APPEALS

Examples of stronger appeals

Philippians 4:2–3 ESV
I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

■ verb

1 ask (someone) earnestly or anxiously to do something.

▶ ask earnestly or anxiously for.

2 archaic treat in a specified manner.

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20 Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus,

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ASKING AS AN ASPECT OF PRAYER

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7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

7“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

10 Or if he asks for a fish, will you give him a serpent?

10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?

11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

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ASKING FREQUENT REQUESTS FOR GUIDANCE OR INSIGHT

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1 After this David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” And the Lord said to him, “Go up.” David said, “To which shall I go up?” And he said, “To Hebron.”

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ASKING, THE GROUNDS FOR

1 John 5:14–15 ESV
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

ASKING AND TRUSTING IN GOD’S MERCY

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18 O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.

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ASKING IN THE NAME OF JESUS

John 14:13 ESV
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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23 In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

24 Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

25 “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.

26 In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;

27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

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ASKING IN FAITH

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22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

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6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

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