Ask and you shall receive? Is it true?

Ask and you shall receive! Is it true? This is why I've created this blog. I need to know the answer to the question and I'm willing to do all I can to find out.
It started the other night when I was listening to some speaker and this guy said the reason people don't usually get what they want is because they never directly ask for what they want and instead try to play games and manipulate to get whatever it is they want.
I had to look up the word manipulate to make sure I didn't do that since I didn't want to screw up my chances of getting what I want and I was worried until I became completely honest with myself and decided that a severe lack of "clever" was probably at the root of most of my problems.
Here is the definition that I got from my dictionary: Manipulate : manage in a clever way so as to bring about a desired effect.
It seemed a little tricky to me because I was worried that this wouldn't work unless I was really clever and that even if I managed clever that would screw me for being manipulative. So I thought about it and decided that perhaps I could try this without telling you a lot about my situation and just seeing if the verse was true and then if you wanted to find out more about my situation and myself I would provide it and you could choose and then as long as that part was optional it would not be manipulative.
That being said I'm now ready to ask for what I want. Yes, it's money, I need it to move my children and I out of where we are living. I'm asking for just whatever you feel you can give.
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