Part 2: Simply Go to God About It

People will get everything they ask for from life, 

• because they do not ask for anything their will isn’t in. 
• If I ask wealth from life, I will get wealth—
• or I was playing the fool when I asked. 
• Denali National Park, Alaska

“If you abide in Me,” Jesus says, 

• “and My words abide in you, 
• you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” ( John 15:7). 
• Sometimes I pray pious chatter—
• my will is not in it, and then I say God does not answer. 
• But I never asked Him for anything. 
• Asking means that my will is in what I ask.
• American Samoa National Park

I say, “But I asked God to turn my life into a garden of the Lord, 

• and there came the plow of sorrow. 
• Instead of a garden, I have been given a wilderness.” 
• Remember that God never gives a wrong answer. 
• Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

My natural life had to be turned into plowed soil... 

• before God could turn it into His own garden. 
• He will put the seed in now. 
• Let God’s seasons come over my soul, 
• and before long my life will be a garden of the Lord.
• Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas

I need to discern that God even controls my asking. 

• We bring in what the apostle Paul calls “will worship” (Colossians 2:23 KJV). 
• Will is the whole individual active; 
• there are terrific forces in the will. 
• Yosemite National Park, California

The person who gains a moral victory by sheer force of will 

• is the most difficult person to deal with afterwards. 
• The profound thing in people is not sin, 
• but their will. 
• Will is the essential element in God’s creation of humans; 
• sin is a perverse disposition which entered into them.
• Redwood National Forest, California

At its basis, the human will is one with God, 

• but it is covered up with all kinds of desires and motives. 
• When I preach Jesus Christ, 
• the Holy Spirit excavates down to the basis of the will 
• and the will turns to God every time. 
• Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

I try to attack people’s wills; 

• if I lift up Jesus, He will push straight to the will. 
• When Jesus talked about prayer He never said, 
• “If the human will turns in that direction . . .” 
• He put it with the grand simplicity of a child—ask. 
• Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida

I bring in my reasoning faculties and say, 

• “Yes, but . . .” 
• Jesus says, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, 
• you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii

Adapted Excerpt From

Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Oswald Chambers

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