The Triumphant ChurchThe Word tells us why that is so.
JAMES 4:2
2 ... ye have not, because ye ASK not.
JOHN 16:23,24
23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye
shall ASK the Father in my name, he will give it
you.
24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name:
ASK, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be
full.
God waits for His children to ask Him to move in
behalf of the lost. Asking based on God's Word is one
way believers stand in their place of authority in Christ
and enforce Satan's defeat on the earth.
Stand in the Gap
God can only move on this earth as His people ask
Him to move. God is longing today for someone who will
make up the hedge and stand in the gap before Him
and intercede for souls in every nation. That's the
scriptural way to win cities and nations for God.
EZEKIEL 22:30
30 And I sought for a man among them, that
should make up the hedge, and STAND IN THE
GAP before me for the land, THAT I SHOULD
NOT DESTROY IT: but I found none.
In these verses, God said He had to destroy the land
because as a just God, He had to pronounce a penalty
on sin. God's penalty for sin wasn't unjust because the
people had brought judgment upon themselves by their
own sin: “... THEIR OWN WAY have I recompensed
upon their heads ..." (v. 31).