We Really Do Get What We Ask For

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Listen to episode 911 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We Really Do Get What We Ask For. Edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Always remember that what you request is given to you, and what you really will in your heart you attain. Life comes and says calmly and confidently, "Ask what I shall give you," and the door opens out into the place of your asking.

I know that this may seem at first an absurd statement that what we seek we find, and where we knock it is opened to us, but if you think a little you will see that it is true. We may not get the exact thing we most desire. The particular object on which we have set our hearts may....

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0:00.0	Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about
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1:13.0	Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.
1:35.7	Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black, published in 1914.
1:50.4	Okay. Door by Hugh Black, published in 1914. Always remember that what you request is given to you, and what you really will in your heart
1:58.3	you attain. Life comes and says calmly and confidently, ask what I shall give you,
2:06.8	and the door opens out into the place of your asking. I know that this may seem at first an absurd
2:14.9	statement that what we seek we find, and where we knock it is open to us,
2:21.8	but if you think a little you will see that it is true. We may not get the exact thing we most
2:28.9	desire. The particular object on which we have set our hearts may be out of our reach, but we
2:36.0	do get along the line of our desire.
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