April.06.04 - Light For The Day - "A Sure Supply" -- Philippians 4:19 "And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus." --------------- One lesson that Jesus would teach us is to have confidence that God answers every true petition. Skeptics may question it, humanists may deny it, and intellectuals may ridicule it.  Yet here is Christ's own promise: "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” (John 15:7). Does this verse mean God gives us a blank check (so to speak) when we pray? Does He promise to give us anything we want, if we just keep asking? No. God loves us too much to answer prayers that are foolish or might harm us. But the closer we get to Him -- the more we abide in Him and His word abides in us -- the more we will desire what He desires, and the more our prayers will reflect His will. The Bible promises, "No good thing does He withhold from those whose walk is blameless" (Ps. 84:11).  Trust that promise with all your soul. -- Billy Graham ----------------- -- Jeremiah 33:2,3 "This is what the LORD says, He who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it— the LORD is His name: 3 ‘Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ -- Jeremiah 29:13 "11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." -- James 1:5,6 "5 If any of you lacks wisdom, He should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind." -- John 16:24 "Until now you have not asked for anything in My name.  Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete."