The soft warm breezes sweep in and comfort us. The days are warmer and the sun's light extends deeper into the day. Shoots of new growth break their way free from the moist soil and suddenly appear almost overnight on the long dead fingers of our trees.
Blossoms burst into color.
Life is renewed across the land. The gift of spring. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When the early Church was facing a stern test with the threat of vicious persecution, they asked for boldness and received an outpouring of the Spirit to minister with courage and power.