You've been taught to ask and see.Jesus said ask and receive.

You've been praying a 50-50 prayer.

Can I guess how most of your prayers end?

"...if it be Your will." "...if it's meant to be." "...I know I probably don't deserve it, but."

You ask God for something, and then somewhere between the request and the amen, you talk yourself out of it. You ask, then you disqualify yourself.

I call it the 50-50 prayer. Heads He answers, tails He doesn't, and you've already braced for tails.

Nobody taught you to pray like that on purpose. But somewhere along the way you picked it up.

That God withholds. That asking for material things is selfish. That unanswered prayer just means "it wasn't His will."

So you learned to ask small, ask vague, and ask with an exit ramp built in.

Here's my problem with all of it. Jesus never described prayer as 50-50. Look at what He actually said:

Everyone. Are you an everyone?

The writer of Hebrews said you were invited to approach the throne boldly (Hebrews 4:16). Not sheepishly. Not with a backup plan.

And this isn't just about emergencies. It covers provision and healing, and it covers the dreams and callings God put in you that you've been too polite to ask about.

This isn't about praying harder or being good enough. It's about finally reading what the book actually says.

She didn't wait for permission.

In Mark 5 there's a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years. She'd spent everything she had on doctors and only gotten worse.

She wasn't invited. She wasn't called forward. Under the law, she wasn't even supposed to be in that crowd.

And the scripture says power left Jesus before He decided anything. He turned around asking who touched Him.

Read that again slowly. If Jesus never got the chance to decide, what happened in that moment?

I walk through it verse by verse in the third video, because what that woman did with her hand is exactly what you were meant to do with your prayers.

And if you've spent your whole life assuming stories like hers are for other people, for the invited ones, the qualified ones, the front-row people, then hear me. She was none of those things.

This kit was built for the overwhelmed, the disqualified-feeling, the ones who ask with an exit ramp. Especially you.

Here's what sent me down this road in the first place. The Greek word Jesus used for "ask" shows up 66 times in the New Testament, and it does not describe a 50-50 request.

When I dug into it, I found four English words that translate it better than "ask" ever could. Four words that change how you read Matthew 7:7 forever.

I'm not going to list them here. That's what the kit is for. But I'll tell you this much: once you see them, you can't unsee them.

And the word for "receive"? In the Greek, it's not a passive catch. It's a grip.

And if your next thought is "but what about asking according to His will?" (1 John 5:14), or "doesn't James say people ask amiss?" (James 4:3), good. You're paying attention.

Those verses don't say what you've been told they say, and video 4 takes them head on, in context, no dodging.

This isn't treating God like a vending machine. It's finding out what's already yours in the covenant, and learning to take hold of it the way that woman in Mark 5 did.

One more thing. In the last session I tell you about the butterfly prayer.

My daughter, second grade, prayed one of those sweet, specific prayers only a kid can pray. And it looked for all the world like God ignored her. It almost broke her faith at seven years old.

I sat her down and told her there were only two options for what happened, and only one of them could be true. I'll give you both options in video 4.

If you're a parent who's ever worried about passing 50-50 prayer down to your kids, that session alone is worth the whole kit.

I'll be straight with you about what's happening here. I believe in what we do inside the Increase Academy so much that I'm going to bribe you ethically to just try it. Start a free 7-day trial of the Academy today and I'll hand you the entire Ask & Receive Study Kit, every video, the guide, the notes, all of it, free.

And here's the part you should read twice: the kit is yours to keep forever, even if you cancel on day two. Nothing out of pocket. Ever.