...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...