Speak up

“You have not because you ask not”

These are the words the Lord dropped in my spirit a few weeks ago.

Immediately, I started wondering what I was missing. What did I not have? What had I refrained from asking for? Wasn’t I already participating in an open communication with my Father?

As I prayed over the next week or so, I started noticing: I talk through how I’m feeling, I share how much I want to x, y, z, I pray over my kids/husband/family/friends/job—speaking things over each area.

I don’t ask. While I was expressing my desire to be aligned to the heart of my Father, I never expressly asked for that freedom to move into place in my life. While I prayed my children have provision, protection, relationship with Him, I never expressly asked for anything.

Then I began to wonder why do I not ask?

It’s not that I’m fearful. It’s not that I’m entitled and approaching from a sense of entitlement either.

I didn’t ask because I’ve equated asking to having a lack of faith. I’ve adopted “call things as though they were” as my only battle strategy.

Hear me out, we definitely need to speak in faith and stand firm in that and speak to our mountains. I’m not negating that at all BUT that can’t be all that we do.

Think of it in terms of having to have more than one play in a ball game or more than one tool to build a home.

We have to know WHEN calling something as though it were is required and when we just need to go to our Heavenly Father and ASK him for something.

He’s the King of Kings. He literally created and commands everything in existence. WHY in the world would I, as his beloved child, not feel like I can come to him and ask for what I need.

You want to know a (not so secret) secret? He already knows. He knows your heart. He knows your desires. He knows your insecurities. He knows every thought you have. He’s just waiting on you to ask him to be part of it.

“You do not have because you do not ask.”

You need a new job, car, idea, motivation, opportunity, (fill in your blank here)? Ask him. The closer we are to his heart, the more our asks align with HIS heart.