...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. 4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?...

...then it is no wonder they are not heard, as St. James observes, James 4.3. " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." And besides, none can pray aright in Christ's Name, without the assistance of His Spirit: for, as the...

...that, if we ask any thing according \o his will, heheareth us. James iv. 3 — Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts, 4. In order to offer acceptable pray er to God, we must rightly and thoroughly know our need and misery....

...abominates pretence in every part of his service. Hence the words of James, " Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts," (James iv. 3.) It is true, indeed, (as we shall again see in a little,) that the pious, in the prayers...

...and confirmation of the gospel, ye are all partakers of my grace. Jam. 4. 3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Jam. 5. 16. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject...

...how small attainments they have made in holiness. Ye ask and ye receive not, said the Apostle James, because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts. When we seek for great blessings with proper views of the fullness there is in God, with a sacred regard...

...much speaking :" 3 nor praying for such things as we ought not to desire ; " ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." * Churches, and ministers, and solemn ordinances, and stated devotions, are dedicated to God, that...

...further characteristic of acceptable prayer, that it must proceed from right motives. Nothing is more common than to ask for lawful objects from improper...credit in the world. Perhaps they desired to be saved from the violence of persecution, not that they might serve God with less distraction or extend farther...

...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. 4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God...

...and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts : ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God.'...