We lust, we ask amiss, our only hope is Jesus Christ.

We Lust.

Jas 4:2,3-

Ye lust,

and have not:

ye kill,

and desire to have, and cannot obtain:

ye fight and war,

yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Ye ask,

and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

We Lust.

Mar_14:38  Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

The fesh is very, very weak. All who comprehend that the we are at war with the flesh understand how week the flesh really is.

1Pe 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul

Our lusts war against our SPIRIT.   We have to fight our lusts, yet so many simply want to give into them claiming the impossibility of ever winning such a war. The truth is they're right, it's impossible for us to win the war. What isn't impossible is our SAVIOR winning the war for us.

Rom 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Who do we yield ourselves to?

Do you yield to sin?

Or

Do you yield to obedience?

One leads to death the other to righteousness, to obedience.

If we CHOOSE to yield to obedience we are making the choice to live as our SAVIOR desires we live, not as our lusts, not as our flesh desires us to live.

Rom 6:17  But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

Rom 6:18  Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Rom 6:19  I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Rom 6:20  For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

Rom 6:21  What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Rom 6:22  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Rom 6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We must become SERVANTS to GOD not to self.

Jas 4:2  Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Jas 4:3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

WE ASK AMISS.

Our motives matter. Our heart matters. Our devotion to God, to His righteousness matters. Our obedience matters.

We can ask God, we can pray to God but we have to know that we can speak to Him amiss.  Just like there are people who think they are the Lord's but aren't, there are those who pray to God and they believe they are praying rightly but they are praying amiss.  Their motive even if it's deep down where they don't want to admit is a self-centered motive, not a God centered motive. They really want their own will to be done, not God's will and they can't hide it from God even if they can hide it from themselves.

Please FATHER, please help us seek You and Your righteousness in all we do. Please let Your will be done, NOT ours! Let us ask rightly, not amiss. Please, Savior, please we would be YOURS always YOURS, only YOURS. Save us from OURSELVES!

All by the grace of God, all through the love of our Savior Jesus Christ our Lord!