James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
Treated in 7 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Key Teachings of A. B. Simpson ·
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…
- Prayer – The Pulse of Life ·
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…
- George Müller of Bristol ·
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…
- With Christ in the School of Prayer ·
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…
- Godliness ·
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…
- The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth ·
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…
- The Key Teachings of Dwight L. Moody ·
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…