2009-10-08T11:53:28-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/petition/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians%204:6&version=NIV 2009-10-08T11:53:28-05:00 When we go to God with our requests--and this passage explicitly encourages us to do so--we are to do so with a spirit of thankfulness. God doesn't discourage us from approaching him with our needs; just the opposite, he wants us to go to Him with all of our requests.