VERSE:
1 John 5:14-15 (New International Version)
14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
LESSON:
Through Jesus, what may we now ask of God?
This verse tells us that, through Jesus, "...in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us...". The important "little" words in this verse are "...according to his will...". God/Jesus is not Santa Claus. We can't just ask for anything on our "I want list". If we are striving to be "Godly people", we should be asking God for things that would be consistent with "his will". But short of that limitation...we are told that we can ask God for "anything".