My Heart Is On Fire By Doug Apple - A Short Christian Devotional To Open The Scriptures And Make Your Heart Burn Within You!

I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire! (Luke 24:32) You do not know what you are asking. That’s what Jesus said. He said, “You do not know what you are asking.” He said it to the mother of His disciples James and John. In Matthew 20, she comes up to Jesus with her sons, kneels down, and Jesus says, “What do you wish?” What she wishes is that Jesus would make her sons his top officials when He becomes king. But she clearly doesn’t understand the situation. She doesn’t know what’s going on. And I don’t, either. Do you? Do we really know what is going on? I mean, do we know like God knows? He REALLY knows what’s going on, and by comparison, what do we know? We don’t. His ways are far above our ways. Like Mark Batterson said in his book, “The Circle Maker,” His ways are 15.5 billion light years above our ways. So when we bring our feeble prayers to God, it is highly likely that we don’t know what we are asking. I like what it says in James 4:3, we ask and do not receive because we “ask amiss