The Bible invites people to misinterpret what it is saying, based on the attitude that we adopt when we read it. The Old Testament invited people to try to be right with God by keeping a set of rules. We read later on in the Epistles that the Old Testament could never be fulfilled by works and that it was introduced to show man his need for a Saviour and the grace that only the Saviour could bring.
Similarly, a verse of scripture such as John 16:23-24 invites believers to ask anything in Jesus’ name and He will do it!
23 "And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 24 "Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
John 16:23-24
If a believer is coming from an anxious disposition – he will use this verse to demand those things he wants with a belief that they will make him happy. He will then look at the miracles of God in the Bible, and the testimonies of other Christians, and use them as a basis for his fantasies; he will then seek God through prayer so that He will meet his supposed needs in some spectacular, supernatural way.
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