'Ask' in the Bible

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.