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. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. The Christian Advocate - Page 4951832Full view - About this book
| Jared Bell Waterbury - Sabbath - 1840 - 248 pages
...Christ, our hope and our Redeemer. Amen. MEDITATION XVI. / PRAYEK HINDERED. Ye ask, and receire not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. James 4: 3. It is important to investigate the spirit with which we pray, as well as to inquire into... | |
| Thomas Manton - Bible - 1840 - 478 pages
...the will of God, or communicate their purpose to him in prayer, VEBSE 3. — Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. In this verse he anticipateth and preventeth an objection. They might say, We do ask, and go to God... | |
| Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1841 - 682 pages
...every branch of his worship. Which is the meaning of this passage in James : " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." (r) It is true, indeed, (as we shall presently again see,) that the prayers of the faithful depend... | |
| Harvey Newcomb - Devotional exercises - 1841 - 152 pages
...God may be glorified, but that it may minister to our own gratification. " Ye ask, and receive noi, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." When we ask with such motives, we have no right to expect that God will hear our prayers. 4. We may... | |
| Harvey Newcomb - Christian life - 1841 - 416 pages
...God may be glorified, but that it may minister to our own gratification. " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." When we ask with such motives, we have no right to expect that God will hear our prayers. 4. We may... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1842 - 518 pages
...applied to a right object, and always in entire submission to the will of God. Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. The mother of Augustine was a woman of devoted piety, but her son was a youth of wild and dissipated habits.... | |
| William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...any thing of the Lord. — James i. 5 — 7. Ye have not, because ye ask not; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts", (or pleasures.) — James iv. 2, 3. Is any among you afflicted ? let him pray, &c. Is any sick among... | |
| Theology - 1842 - 508 pages
...applied to a right object, and always in entire submission to the will of God. Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. But may we always, in every case, when our prayer is acceptable, expect the very thing which we ask... | |
| Religion - 1842 - 1046 pages
...applied to a right object, and always in entire submission to the will of God. Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. But may we always, in every case, when our prayer is acceptable, expect the very thing which we ask... | |
| Félix Neff - 1843 - 514 pages
...and cannot obtain : Ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ash not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." ' The pursuit of the things of the world, causes quarrels and jealousies. Instead of hating and envying your... | |
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