James 1:6-8

I love these versus here.  If anyone lacks wisdom, we have but to ask God for it.  He will give us what we ask for in generous doses.

However, you can't just say "God give me wisdom."  You have to ask with faith, without doubt.  Faith is trusting in something or someone.  Doubt is uncertainty.

Doubt it something you can't depend on.  You can't do or say anything with doubt as a foundation.  It is very sketchy, as a surfer might say.

If you have doubt that God will give you wisdom, it isn't that He can't.  He could.  However, God will say no.  To my own understanding, doubt is a negative emotion just like anger, bitterness, fear and selfishness.

Therefore if you entertain doubt, like any of these emotions, you are entertaining the ruler of those emotions.  God is the creator and ruler of love, joy, peace, happiness and trust.  The absence of love is where the devil resides and in that void he is the ruler.  So he is the ruler of doubt and encourages it.  If you indulge yourself in doubt and refuse to have faith, then you are allowing the devil authority in your life instead of God.  So why would God say yes and grant you wisdom if you don't accept Him as the authority and ruler of your life?

Versus 8 wraps up why God says no very nicely.  A person who asks in "faith" but doubts is a 'double-minded' person who if very 'unstable.'

Remember the parable about building a house on stone instead off on sand?  If you lacked the funds to decorate your house and asked your Father for money to decorate it, He will give you what you ask for in generous amounts.  If it is built on stone.  If it is built on sand, He will say no because it is unstable and would be a waste.