"Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!"
(Matthew 7:9-11)
"Now this is the confidence we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have ASKED OF HIM." (1 John 5:14,15)
"I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world." (John 6:48-51)
"He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood ABIDES IN ME and I in him."
(John 6:56)
Since we understand there is not now, nor was there then, any way to literally, physically accomplish what Jesus taught (His body to eat and blood to drink), we know that He wants us to abide in Him by partaking of the substance of who He is and what He did. Jesus is teaching us the way to "keep ourselves" so that the wicked one does not touch us: through His bread AND His blood. I would say this is the "understanding" that John says He had given to them. Without question we are to follow Jesus Christ and these disciples. A son should ask for the good things: that He will show us how to believe the testimony that God has given of His Son! (1 John 5:10)
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