If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer

 Matthew 21:12-22

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[e] but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’

But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.

‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’? Psalm 8:2

Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.

Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Having entered the city in triumph as the Messiah. Jesus shows his authority in the Temple, the nation's central shrine. His dramatic overturning of the money-changers tables is a major demonstration against the commerce and big business that had taken over God'shouse of prayer'.

The blind and lame (excluded from the Temple it would seem from 2 Samuel) are welcomed and healed by Jesus. And children recognize what the religious officials are blind to, as they chant the earlier tributes of the crowds.

Jesus's action is generally taken as symbolic. The fig which bears no fruit is good for nothing but destruction. From the context, it seems we are meant to see the tree as a symbol of the Temple which, for all its ritual, is spiritually barren. Jesus uses the incident as an object lesson on the power of faith. God is able to do the impossible.

Why?

Jesus shows his authority in the Temple, where is a place of prayer, it is not for marketing. There is mercy and love in the Temple so Jesus healed many people there.

A Temple should has fruit but there is spiritually barren, so it should be destroyed like the fig tree, so as our faith we can pray for many things if we have faith in Jesus. Pray in God's way and in God's mind is better to pray for our benefit.

Once again the children praise Jesus Christ is proved the Psalme said Jesus is the Lord.

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耶穌騎驢進城後，雖然是溫柔的王，但是也要行公義，第一件事是潔淨聖殿。他們在外邦人院做生意，因此也影響外邦人來聖殿的場所。他們關心的不會是來敬拜的人是否敬拜神，反而是關心是否賺到錢，如何用更少的錢，方便的方法來完成神的交待，完全是考量的需要。提供的場地的是祭司長，構成一個互利的集團，只有來這買祭物才合格，完全沒有考量人是否遇見神。來的人賺取方便。聖殿變成一個表面的活動。獻祭的人的敬虔不見了，如無花果樹有許多葉子，看來興盛，卻沒有果子，沒有果子就沒有下一代，也不能提供別人吃，對別人無益。

敬拜就是向神彎腰，在生活中降服神。認定神為最重要的，神的榮耀、心意、作為才是我們要考慮的。真正的敬拜是討神的喜歡。如果我認為以我的方式敬拜我比較喜歡、方便，不管是否合神的心意敬拜就是遠離神了，而是隨神的心所願來敬拜。敬拜不是在 方便的時間，敬拜的方法有它的規範。

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How?

If we believe we may receive eternal life and the blessing from the Lord.