"You know not," said He, "what you are asking. Are you able to drink out of the cup from which I am to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am to be baptized?"

and whatever we ask for we obtain from Him, because we obey His commands and do the things which are pleasing in His sight.

And we have an assured confidence that whenever we ask anything in accordance with His will, He listens to us.

Ye may

No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.

He said also to His disciples: "There was a rich man who had a steward, about whom a report was brought to him, that he was wasting his property.

Lusts

What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?

General references

For every one who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, the door shall be opened.

But if you are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.

A person of that sort must not expect to receive anything from the Lord--