Asking and believing

How many of you who have children have had your children ask you over and over and over and over for the same thing?  Does that get as irritating to you as it does to me?

The Secret mentions 3 steps to receiving what you ask.

1.  ASK - but ask once.  If you ask more than once, you're not believing that you'll receive it.  Think about that for a moment.  If you truly believe that what you ask for is on its way to you, then you don't need to ask again.  If you ask your mom or dad for something and they say that you can have it tomorrow, do you continue asking?  No, you know you're going to get it tomorrow so you don't ask, but you look forward to getting what you asked for.

2.  BELIEVE that you are receiving it.  Using the example in the previous step, when your parents say okay that you can have it tomorrow, you believe them because they said so and when tomorrow gets here, they give you what you asked for.  You can look at it in the sense that you're getting it, so it's yours now, you just don't have it in your hands.

3. RECEIVE what you asked for.  The thing you asked for is yours at that moment.  It may not be manifested in your hot little hands at that precise moment, but it's yours at that moment.  And be thankful for receiving it.  Be grateful.  When your parents gave you something you asked for, you were grateful (I hope you were, you should have been anyway) and you thanked them, sometimes you thanked them over and over.  The same applies here.  Give thanks for receiving what you asked for.


I want you all to understand that I believe in God and that HE sent His Son to die for my sins.  I believe God is our Heavenly Father.  When I give thanks I give thanks to God for I believe He gave me all that I have and all that I will have.  The Secret talks about the Universe in that respect, I think of God.  There are a couple verses that need to be mentioned here.  Matthew 21:22 Jesus said "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."  Also Mark 11:24, "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." And Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."

We cannot get anything without asking for it, we must believe that we are receiving it and we must receive it.