 Ye lust and have not : ye kill, and desire to have, 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.  The Christian Advocate1832Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Sharpe - 1836 - 408 pages
...to this particular is one cause of unsuccessful prayer, as St. James says, " Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts." We should consider, therefore, what things God has declared Himself more especially disposed to give,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 624 pages
...should crave of God what ye want, ye have it not, because ye ask it not. IV. 3. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. And if ye do ask, ye receive not, because ye ask amiss: either begging unmeet things; or slightly and... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 630 pages
...should crave of God what ye want, ye have it not, because ye ask it not. IV. 3. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. And if ye do ask, ye receive not, because ye ask amiss: either begging unmeet things ; or slightly... | |
 | John Warburton - 1837 - 154 pages
...heart that settled the thing in a moment, and showed me the why and the how; " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." (James iv. 3.) O how clearly did I see it was all my own fleshly planning and contriving, and that... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1838 - 330 pages
...will, him he heareth. * 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. 5 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination to the... | |
 | Harvey Newcomb - 1838 - 136 pages
...It is because people do not always ask aright. The apostle James says : " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." " I do not know what lusts means, mother." " The word lust, my dear, may be 2* understood differently,... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1838 - 156 pages
...praying in the way that God would have us. " Ye ask," says the apostle James, " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." (James 4. 3.) " After this manner therefore pray ye," thus speaks our Saviour Christ, when He had been... | |
 | Bernhard Jacobi - 1838 - 252 pages
...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 ? whosoever... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 740 pages
...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, — know ye not, that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ?" XXXII. James iv. 7. " Submit... | |
 | Andrew Gray - 1839 - 508 pages
...propose to ourselves in going about that duty ; that is clear in James iv. 3, Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. O ! that woeful idolatry that Christians do entertain in the exercise of prayer. That glorious and... | |
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