Morning All! I hope things are going very well. Especially if you have today off like I do! OH YEAH!!!! Days off are great yo. You can just switch gears and do something totally different. Anyhow, on to.... da Word!
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This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
- 1 John 5:14
THAT.... my friends..... is pretty AWESOME! Pops above hears me? ME? Really? Homeboy takes a moment just to hear what I ask for? God himself!? Yeah kid, this ain't no lie. According to this passage of scripture, we can hold onto this promise and have the unshakable confidence that Pops above hears us when we ask him something.
But wait, what's the catch? Catch you say? There is no catch. If you are straight rollin' with Pops, and I mean you two are tight and getting tighter everyday, then shoooooooot, you two will be thinking alike as well! Matter of fact you my friend, you will start to become more and more like Pops above in character! That's right. I mean come on, you can't rub shoulders with the ILLEST being around and NOT get influenced. Look how easy it is to get influenced by some of your friends! Hang around each other long enough and both of you start to do or say some of the same things. And, so it is with Pops!
See, you will start to want the very same things Pops wants. You will start to think like Pops thinks. You will be moving in the same direction as he is. And thus, when you approach Pops and ask him a thing, you can be sure that what you ask will be according to his will. Because your will be in alignment with his. And BOOM! It's go time! You and Pops will start bringing a Holy Righteous Ruckus that is OFF the HOOK!
Why his will? The real question is why not?! You think Pops... aka GOD... is going to lead you astray? You think homeboy is going to lead you to the worst possible path? You think the big G is a kid with an ant farm and a magnifying glass? Come on people! No no no no! The will of Pops is the best possible choice one can ever make. He already sees and knows all! And he is trying to lead you into receiving the best in life.
That's why Pops ain't no Genie. We can't just ask him for anything. I mean come on we don't know what we want! Most of the things we ask for that aren't according to homeboy's will more times than not leads us into a worse predicament! I'm sure you can relate. You finally got something you thought would make things better and in the end it makes things worse. It would have been better had never got the thing! BAM! And that brings us full circle! Pops would have never given it to us in the first place.
So what can we have confidence in? We can have confidence that Pops gives us whatever we ask that is in accordance to his will. Matter of fact, that confidence is so strong that once we ask we can rest assured and know that we already have it (peep verse 15). I don't know about you, but I'm liking that. Pops has my back... and I ain't got nothing to worry about nor anything to lose.
G-bless,
- patrick
THAT.... my friends..... is pretty AWESOME! Pops above hears me? ME? Really? Homeboy takes a moment just to hear what I ask for? God himself!? Yeah kid, this ain't no lie. According to this passage of scripture, we can hold onto this promise and have the unshakable confidence that Pops above hears us when we ask him something.
But wait, what's the catch? Catch you say? There is no catch. If you are straight rollin' with Pops, and I mean you two are tight and getting tighter everyday, then shoooooooot, you two will be thinking alike as well! Matter of fact you my friend, you will start to become more and more like Pops above in character! That's right. I mean come on, you can't rub shoulders with the ILLEST being around and NOT get influenced. Look how easy it is to get influenced by some of your friends! Hang around each other long enough and both of you start to do or say some of the same things. And, so it is with Pops!
See, you will start to want the very same things Pops wants. You will start to think like Pops thinks. You will be moving in the same direction as he is. And thus, when you approach Pops and ask him a thing, you can be sure that what you ask will be according to his will. Because your will be in alignment with his. And BOOM! It's go time! You and Pops will start bringing a Holy Righteous Ruckus that is OFF the HOOK!
Why his will? The real question is why not?! You think Pops... aka GOD... is going to lead you astray? You think homeboy is going to lead you to the worst possible path? You think the big G is a kid with an ant farm and a magnifying glass? Come on people! No no no no! The will of Pops is the best possible choice one can ever make. He already sees and knows all! And he is trying to lead you into receiving the best in life.
That's why Pops ain't no Genie. We can't just ask him for anything. I mean come on we don't know what we want! Most of the things we ask for that aren't according to homeboy's will more times than not leads us into a worse predicament! I'm sure you can relate. You finally got something you thought would make things better and in the end it makes things worse. It would have been better had never got the thing! BAM! And that brings us full circle! Pops would have never given it to us in the first place.
So what can we have confidence in? We can have confidence that Pops gives us whatever we ask that is in accordance to his will. Matter of fact, that confidence is so strong that once we ask we can rest assured and know that we already have it (peep verse 15). I don't know about you, but I'm liking that. Pops has my back... and I ain't got nothing to worry about nor anything to lose.
G-bless,
- patrick
And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
ReplyDeleteIf people understood this, the world would change.