If it be your will

I am reading Mark Batterson's book Primal and he is talking about something completely unrelated to this blog, but mentioned as a little aside, and it got me thinking....He was talking about how he went forward at an altar call to receive a blessing, He wanted God to multiply his blessing in the form of selling 25,000 copies of In a Pit with a Lion on a Snow Day, but he ended his prayer with "If it be your will"  and mentioned how it was more a spiritual cop-out to the faith it required for him to ask for what he felt he should have--100,000 copies sold (which is where it actually ended up).  It started me thinking about that phrase  "if it be your will"....

While Jesus did pray for God's will on earth, was often seeking after God's will, He told us to:

Matt 7:7-8

7 "Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. 

 I feel that sometimes we limit God, or rather limit our faith by praying "if it be your will"  I've heard and on occasion prayed it myself, people ask God to heal a person, "if it be your will"  but when we pray in such away we give ourselves an out, we allow the miracle not to happen, but what would happen if we really tested our faith and prayed what we claim to believe, that Jesus can heal, when Peter and John prayed they did not pray if it be God's will that the lame man walk, but they TOLD the lame man to get up and walk, to get up then they lifted him up!  They had the faith that God could heal and knew that God's will was to bring glory to God not to Peter and John and they acted like it, that being said, why can't we act like we know we should? We know it is our job to pray for the sick to be Healed, not to pray that nothing happens.  Let's take a stand as Christians and believe in God like He is the creator of the universe and the one who can heal, not who may heal, but the one who will heal the sick, and lets stop giving our faith an out, but rather put our faith into true action!