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Not every prayer for your child is a prayer of faith — some are prayers of fear wearing faith's clothing.

In this message from Matthew 20:20–22, the boldness of Zebedee's wife asking Jesus to seat her sons at his right and left sounds presumptuous — but Pastor Mike shows the real question isn't whether she asked too much, it's whether you're willing to ask at all. Most parents carry a burden for their children that quietly becomes control — reducing church attendance before exams, steering them away from full surrender, managing outcomes God was never asked about. What looks like wisdom is sometimes just fear that God won't move the way you need Him to.

Pastor Mike traces the pattern through Scripture — from Micah's mother turning love into idolatry, to Mary searching for Jesus in anguish, to Salome kneeling before the One who had already extended the sceptre. The tragedy is always the same: you reach for the outcome and miss the process. But Salome had a promise and she used it — and Jesus didn't dismiss her. He considered it, and mapped out a future she couldn't have engineered herself.

Because what you haven't brought to God, you haven't trusted Him with — and you have not, because you ask not.

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