12.24- It is helpful to be open and transparent.

 12.24-

It is helpful to be open and transparent. This does not mean we need to blab about all our opinions all the time. Much of our private lives are no one else's business. Meddlers should stop meddling and we should not encourage them.
What I am wanting to encourage is that we ask Father for what we want. Like a trusting child we accept that this thing is a desire and knowing it we ask God for it in prayer. Prayer does not tell God something he does not know as much as it tells us what we don't know.
Once this desire is made clear to us then it can received sooner or later or the desire for it might go away because we want something else that seems better to us. With honesty we can know we have freely opened our heart to our friend Jesus. We know him. He knows us. A secure feeling.

John 15.
 I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him [f]bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so [g]prove to be My disciples.

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