James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
American Standard Version

Treated in 7 passages across the library.

  1. The Key Teachings of A. B. Simpson · Ochorus Originals

    The Life of Prayer cites JAMES 4:3

    …e. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. JAMES 4:3 Asking, and taking Here is a distinction characteristic of Simpson, and it follows from t…

  2. Prayer – The Pulse of Life · Hannah Buyinza

    Cultivating the Spirit of Prayer cites James 4:3

    …ish. “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.” James 4:3. Our focus should be on eternity. Perhaps this is why someone hasn't seen any change even…

  3. George Müller of Bristol · Arthur T. Pierson

    New Lessons in God's School of Prayer cites James iv. 3

    … godly: we must not seek any gift of God to consume it upon our own lusts. (1 John v. 14; James iv. 3.) 5. Importunity in supplication. There must be waiting on God and waiting for God, as th…

  4. With Christ in the School of Prayer · Andrew Murray

    The Certainty of the Answer to Prayer cites Jas. iv. 3

    …th it shall be opened,’—Matt. vii. 7, 8. ‘Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.’—Jas. iv. 3. OUR Lord returns here in the Sermon on the Mount a second time to speak of prayer. The f…

  5. Godliness · Catherine Booth

    Conditions of Effectual Prayer cites James 4:3

    …y. “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.” — James 4:3 That means your earthly desires, affections, and purposes, limited by the horizon of eart…

  6. The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth · Ochorus Originals

    The Conditions of Effectual Prayer cites JAMES 4:3

    …26 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. JAMES 4:3 The fourth link is faith. No one, she said, can exercise faith for something the Spirit h…

  7. The Key Teachings of Dwight L. Moody · Ochorus Originals

    Ask, Seek, Knock cites JAMES 4:3

    …s. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. JAMES 4:3 The promise that we shall ask what we will and have it, he points out, begins with a very…

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