scripture
You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and you do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.
James 4.3
reflection
“To ask ‘rightly’ involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God’s thoughts after him: to desire the things he desires, to love the things he loves, to will the things he wills. Progressively, we are taught to see things from his point of view.”
Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
