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First Kings chapter three, verse 12. Behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and

discerning mind so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.

That is an amazing verse. This is God speaking to Solomon in response to a prayer of Solomon

for wisdom, for discernment. And I just want to camp out on two things here that will lead us to pray.

First, God says, behold, I now do according to your word. Just let that soak in. God says to Solomon,

who just prayed to him, I will do what you have asked. Just think about that, that God would respond to your prayers or my prayers this way, that he would

do according to what we ask.

Oh, pray with confidence, especially as the whole point of this podcast is we pray according

to God's word.

We can know God will give us what we ask when we pray specifically according to His word,

which leads to the next part. God says, I will give you a wise and discerning mind. This is

something that God wanted to give to Solomon. Solomon asked for it and God says, yes, I will give that to you.

And this isn't just Solomon's story. This is the promise that we read in James for every follower of

Jesus. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding

fault. And when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave

of the sea blown and tossed by the wind. That man is a dumb-minded man, unstable in all that he does.

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