I am reading a book called “the complete green letters” for school right now. Last night I read chapter 16 entitled “Help” and it had some revolutionary thoughts about prayer. Are you (the supposedly “mature” christian) praying “asking” (or worse, begging) God for help?
Its kind of a “spiritually immature” way to pray. It’s Satan’s technique to try and convince us that we need to ask God for things he’s already done or promised… (convicting, kind of reminded me of when Miles would share that you shouldn’t pray for salvation EVERY week that you should be thanking God that he’s already given you salvation each week). The thing is, if you’re resorting to begging God for help, you’re not trusting in the fact that he’s already promised you help, and you aren’t believing that he WILL help you.
So stop doing that, and instead pray for God to get you out of the way and for him to step in; claim (on the grounds of the blood of Jesus) the victory Jesus has already promised. Ask, yes (“ask and ye shall receive”), but beg not. Claim victory instead.