Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (11:24)
The original form of the above verse about prayer is Matthew 11:22, “If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." The aphorism about prayer has changed little by little according to the process of transmission. However, the above verse is sure about prayer.
First, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it. Here what we have to ask is not mentioned. It signifies believing that we have received whatever we asked for is important. It is the word about how do we depend on God. It points out an absolute dependence. We never have any work to do with our own. The root of existence is not in us. Our breathing also is not our independent ability. If there is no air to breathe our will to breathe air has no meaning at all. The word, “Believe that you have received it” means to entrust our life into God absolutely.
Second, it says, “if we ask for in prayer it will be ours.” No one may read it as an actual language. It doesn’t mean to throw the mountain into the sea or everybody can be a rich. Though we may get these things in this way we cannot get our spiritual satisfaction. Compare to the past we are living as a king with an affluent life but not happy with this.
If I say it in a little deeper level, the entire life is the answer of prayer to those who pray truthfully. The matter is we haven’t realized it yet. When a child was refused from his mother as he requested a knife, it even in fact what the child want. For it was the way to protect his life.
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