Receiving Joy

Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.(John 16:24)

Jesus is showing us the sure fire way of receiving fullness of joy, just simply ask in prayer. This is as though the Father is waiting for His children to speak to Him and ask. As the Father seeks those who would worship Him in spirit and in truth, thus He seeks those who would ask, even asking for great inheritance (Psa 2:8). So why miss out on obtaining promised joy from the Father?

Where and whom do we ask? Ask of man and receive that is within man’s capacity, ask of God and we receive that which is heavenly (John 3:27). Getting it from the right Source and clarity will come to us without striving with great glorious revelation…. (Exo 33:18, John 16:25).

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. (Job 42:10)

From what grounds do we ask? We ask and receive not because the motivation gratifies self (Jam 4:3), where as the Father desires us to bring into realization of His good, acceptable and perfect will in our lives. If we ask from the place of drawing from the life of True Vine (His will, desire, heart, purpose, etc), He will see to it that ‘it shall be done unto you’ (John 15:7). The Lord would want us to be weaned from asking from the perspective of temporal self gratification or even genuine need to seeking His glorification. We have to learn that asking for others first is the outworking of a mature son of God, because there is knowing confidence that the Father will take care of our personal best in Him.