Charles Spurgeon Commentary James 4:3

"Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures." — James 4:3 (ASV)

The lusts of the flesh come in and put us on the wrong track; or if we take the right road, yet, if the lusts are there, God will not bless us because, in doing so, he would be helping us to gratify our lusts.