And Jesus said to them, You know not what you ask. Can you drink of the cup of which I drink? or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?

and what we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

And this is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he hears us.

Ye may

And not many days after, the youngest son, collecting all his property, went abroad to a distant country; and there wasted his property, living intemperately.

AND he also said to the disciples, There was a certain rich man that had a steward; and he was accused to him of wasting his property.

Lusts

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?

General references

for every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.

But if you bite and devour one another, see that you be not consumed one by another.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord,