God wants us to Ask him for the things we need! So do it!

(The Message)

Matthew 7 

7-11"Don't bargain with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need. This isn't a cat-and-mouse, hide-and-seek game we're in. If your child asks for bread, do you trick him with sawdust? If he asks for fish, do you scare him with a live snake on his plate? As bad as you are, you wouldn't think of such a thing. You're at least decent to your own children. So don't you think the God who conceived you in love will be even better?

 12"Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God's Law and Prophets and this is what you get.

(New American Standard Version)

Matthew 7

Prayer and the Golden Rule

 7"^(F)Ask, and ^(G)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 he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

 9"Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?

 10"Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?

 11"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, ^(H)how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

 12"In everything, ^(I)therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for ^(J)this is the Law and the Prophets.