MOMENTUM–Week 3–Dealing with Trials Part 2

James 1:5-8 tells us that we can ask God for wisdom. James gives us four things here in this passage. They are:

A promise

   God’s promises do not fail (John 7:7-11)

   He will always do what he promised (remember the boy and the father and the ice cream)

A parameter

   God says that we must believe

   This isn’t a mental assent to what He says, but a willingness to obey

A punishment

   When we fail to obey, we will not get what we ask for

   God is not mad, He just won’t waste His time if we won’t obey

A pronouncement

   God calls us double-minded (this means we are not pure…see James 4)

   God calls us unstable (our relationships, our spiritual life, and everything else suffers)

We are challenged to say “YES!” to Jesus even before we know what He is going to ask us to do.

With that kind of faith, we are able to receive God’s wisdom, because we will do it.