Here's Nancy DeMoss-Waglmuth on one of the reasons our prayers might go unanswered.

Some of our requests are wrongheaded, they're misguided, or they're short-sighted.

We think they're good things, but our father knows that some of the things we're asking for,

just like some of the things your three or six-year-old may ask you for, or your 16-year-old

may ask you for some things that they think are good things. But as a mom, you for, or your 16-year-old may ask you for some things that they think are good

things. But as a mom, you know, that really would not be a good thing.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, August 25, 2016. The words to the Lord's Prayer are very familiar to a lot of people.

They've grown up saying, Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

In our current teaching series, Nancy's been helping a lot of us move from simply knowing those words to living those words.

If you've missed any of her series, The Lord's Prayer, you can hear the audio or read the transcript at revive our hearts.com.

Today, she begins explaining the phrase, Give us this day our daily bread.

That's a petition we're talking about in the Lord's Prayer.

And throughout the Lord's Prayer and the sermon on the Mount and other parts of the Gospels,

Jesus urges us to ask our Heavenly Father for the things we need.

Actually, to ask, not just to hope for or wait for,

or think he will provide them or dream about him providing them, but actually to take the step

of asking for God to provide our daily needs. And then to expect God to meet those needs.

If you move on in the sermon on the mount into Matthew chapter 7, the chapter

after chapter 6 where the Lord's prayer is given, Jesus says, ask, and it will be given to you.

For everyone who asks, receives. Which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent. If you then, who are evil,

know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven

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