Asking for more of God's presence
“You do not have, because you do not ask ” (James 4:2). How much enjoyment of God’s presence and experience of his power for mission are we missing out on because we do not ask God for them? Jesus also says we do not have because we ask with such little faith (Matthew 17:19 –20). How much enjoyment of God’s presence and experience of his power for mission are we missing out on because our expectation is so small that prayer will result in anything? Jesus also says we do not have, because we do not ask long enough (Luke 11:5–13). All over the Bible we see, not in great detail but in sufficient detail, that we are involved in a great cosmic battle and that the prayers of the saints are crucial to the advancement of the kingdom of God (see Daniel 10 and Ephesians 6 ). We don’t need to know how it all works, we just need to know it does. The testimony of Scripture and church history is that great Spirit-empowered, Great Commission fulfilling works of God are preceded