Magic vending machine

Friday June 1st, John 14: 12"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. 13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. I have often heard this as the magic vending machine. We ask, that is ask properly and while attending the right church and believing the right doctrine and voting the right way, and bingo, we get what we want from Jesus. The point is not so much asking for what we want, but asking from deep within a relationship with God. What we find then is that what we ask for is God’s plan all along.