As children of the Most High we have a divine heritage and therefore a right to expect that God will take care of us in every way. The Bible is full of promises as to what God will do for His children, but perhaps Jesus put it the most plainly when he said,
What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:9-11).
So you have a divine right to expect all these good things from God. But what does God expect of us? Well, God has a right to expect that we will put Him first in our hearts. Then God expects us to have a lively faith. Faith in itself is a reliance upon the goodness of God.
And lastly, God expects us to go to Him in prayer — as a son who knows that even before he has asked, the loving Father has answered.
So. here we have it. We must put God first in our hearts, rely on God through our faith and commune with God in prayer. By far, the hardest of these is putting God first in our hearts. It requires us to reverse the priorities the world puts first.
When our hearts truly change, we will put our faith in God and commune with God daily. Let us begin today to ask ourselves, “What is our hearts greatest desire..that which we could not live without”. If the answer is anything but to have faith in and commune with God, then we still have a ways to go.
If, on the other hand, we have put God first in our hearts, then we are relying on the goodness of God and can expect God has answered all our prayers, even before we asked. Just as God created an Eden for us before we were created. The heart that loves God and puts God first can walk in that garden every day.
Wholeheartedly,
Stan
Good Morning Garden 
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