Achsah: Ask For More
July 9, 2026
She had already received a gift. Her father Caleb, one of the great heroes of Israel’s conquest of Canaan, had given her land as part of her marriage to Othniel. It was a generous gift. Most people would have said thank you and moved on.
Achsah dismounted from her donkey and asked for more.
Judges 1:14-15 tells us that as she arrived at her new home she urged her husband to ask her father for a field. Then she went further — she approached Caleb herself and asked him directly. “Give me a blessing,” she said. “Since you have given me land in the South, give me also springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
That is the whole story. It takes three verses. And yet it is one of the most quietly revolutionary moments in the entire book of Judges.
Achsah understood something that many believers never grasp — that receiving a gift does not disqualify you from asking for more. She had been given land, but land without water in the dry south of Canaan was land without a future. She saw the gap between what she had been given and what she actually needed, and she had the faith and the boldness to name it out loud to the one who had the power to fill it.
She didn’t complain. She didn’t resent what she had been given. She simply came to her father and said — give me a blessing.
And he gave her both the upper and the lower springs.
Friend, your heavenly Father is not diminished by your asking. He is not wearied by your requests or offended by your need. James 4:2 says plainly — “You do not have because you do not ask.” Achsah knew that the gap between what she had and what she needed was not a reason for resignation — it was a reason to ask.
Come to your Father. Tell Him what you need. Ask for the springs.
He has both the upper and the lower ones to give.