John 14:14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Both of these verses are true.

Why is it that so many of our prayers go unanswered when we include “in your name” in those prayers?

Perhaps that is because the Father’s will is unimpeachable. 

John 5:30 I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Both of these verses are true.

John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

If we want to pray the will of the Father then we must learn the lessons of the Holy Spirit.

That is a revelation that cannot be discovered without His abiding presence.

Colossians 1:9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Yesterday I asked if we are going to have to defend our faith. Today’s verse of the day tells us just how to do that.

Let us use Merriam Webster’s definition of ideology answer b: the integrated assertions, theories and aims that constitute a sociopolitical program.

It is political not spiritual.

The only spiritual answer to an attack on our politics is the will of God.

Ideologies are attacking our politics on every front, we are surrounded. So what are we to do?

2 Kings 6:15-17  ESV

¹⁵ When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” ¹⁶ He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” ¹⁷ Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Lord open our eyes that we might see your will. AMEN