Luke 11: 9-10
And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks receives. Everyone who seeks finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.
This is how God designed the world to work for us, based on a faith principle. Anyone who knows clearly what they want, and asks specifically for it, and implicitly believes that it is possible to have it, and looks for it and expects it; will, without fail, receive it. God made it work this way so that we would put our faith in Him.
The World has gotten hold of this principle, and Rhonda Byrne wrote a book called "The Secret" outlining this process, calling it the "principle of attraction." Other authors have also advanced this "theory of abundance" to teach people to believe in themselves, or "the universe", or whatever, to answer this request and grant the petition, without acknowledging God at all. This is another example of our enemy Satan counterfeiting God's good gifts. Many of the super-rich people of the World have used this process to amass their wealth, but, "What will it profit a man if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).
Our enemy also uses this idea to convince people that they are "all right" with God, because they prayed for whatever, and got it. But if they've never admitted to God that they deserve death and let Jesus take their place in death on the Cross, then His Blood He shed on that altar has not washed away their sins, and God cannot hear their prayers, still being polluted by sin.
But we who know God through faith in His Son, our Savior, are to rely on our Heavenly Father implicitly, trusting that He will provide for our every need, both in this World and in the next. All we need to do is to ask Him, knowing that His love for us will give to us from His abundance, to take good care of us as our Father. To keep on asking, to keep on looking for the answer, to keep on knocking on that door that is not open to us yet, never giving up on His faithfulness. And we will receive from His majestic abundance, meeting our every need, answering our every request, and fitting us for His eternal glory when He calls us into eternity.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
