If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him? Matthew 7:11
“Lord, give me what I want.” If I come to a stranger, I have no right to expect he will give it me. He may out of his charity; but if I come to a father, I have a claim, a sacred claim. “My Father, I shall have no need to use arguments to move Thy bosom; I shall not have to speak to Thee as the beggar who crieth in the street: for because Thou art my Father Thou knowest my wants, and Thou art willing to relieve me. It is Thy business to relieve me; I can come confidently to Thee, knowing Thou wilt give me all I want.” If we ask our Father for anything when we are little children, we are under an obligation certainly; but it is an obligation we never feel. If you were hungry and your father fed you, would you feel an obligation like you would if you went into the house of a stranger? You go into a stranger’s house trembling, and you tell him you are hungry. Will he feed you? He says yes, he will give you somewhat; but if you go to your father’s table, almost without asking, you sit down as a matter of course, and feast to your full, and you rise and go, and feel you are indebted to him; but there is not a grievous sense of obligation. Now, we are all deeply under obligation to God, but it is a child’s obligation-an obligation which impels us to gratitude, but which does not constrain us to feel that we have been demeaned by it. Oh! if He were not my Father, how could I expect that He would relieve my wants? But since He is my Father, He will, He must hear my prayers, and answer the voice of my crying, and supply all my needs out of the riches of His fullness in Christ Jesus the Lord.~ C.H. Spurgeon
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Grateful He is our Heavenly Father, and that is the basis of Him hearing our prayers
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Amen! \o/ “Our Father who art in heaven…” The most holy, sovereign God is our Father. How He condescends just because He loves us! \o/
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Amen!
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