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Thumb chapter 20 verse 5. May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.

Exclamation point. Not a great short simple verse. It's actually the last part of Psalm 20 verse 5.

But let me let me say it again. May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.

Let me ask you a question just to think about in your life and then to let this question and this verse lead us into prayer.

If God gave you all that you were asking for right now, what would you have?

If God gave you all like everything that you were asking for, what would you have?

And think specifically not just in your own life, but as your petitioning God for things and others lives, your petitioning God for things in the world.

What would you have if God gave you everything you were asking for?

And as I asked that question, I just want to remind you of James, the New Testament who writes, we have not because we ask not.

All the promises that we have from Jesus over and over and over again in the New Testament saying ask for me whatever you wish.

Ask for me anything according to my name, according to my word, and it will be given to you.

What a promise that we have. So what a promise we have.

And then Psalm 20 verse five here is just a prayer of blessing.

Don't a prayer over you and me and us may the Lord fulfill all our petitions.

May we ask for a lot from the Lord knowing that he's our father.

He loves us. He delights in answering our prayers, fulfilling our petitions.

So let's pray, oh God, when we pray, please teach us to trust your generosity, your promises, your desires to fulfill our petitions, to give us what we ask.

And even in circumstances where what we are asking for is not best, your trustworthiness that you will give us what is best, that you will provide in ways that are best, according to your wisdom and your knowledge and ultimately your power and your love.

So we pray that you would teach us to be zealous in our asking, persistent in our asking, constant in our asking.

God, we pray that we would petition you all day long, every day, that we would constantly be asking you for help, for your provision, for your direction, for your hand at work in our lives.

In other lives, in the world around us. God, we pray that it would not be set of us that we didn't have from you because we didn't ask of you.

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