In my discovery of magick and assistance of a spiritual nature I'm curious about the concept of "ask and you shall receive."

In magick, I'm discovering, that there are many ways that are of various degrees of effort through organized and ritualized condition of the self, often through altering one's mind. This altering of the mind seems to be through discipline, self realization, and often requires one to release preconditioned doubts. There are varying degrees of opinion on the way of magickal achievements and for many the goal is often to assist ones own life (although of course there are numerous other goals that may not fall into the category of assisting the self - unless of course one see's all of reality as the self, thus any action's reactions will affect the ultimate reality of self).

But here, I'm curious about the concept of "Ask and you shall receive." Is this a much simpler way of achieving one's goals and outcomes? Do we make our efforts too complicated, and the answer actually is within the simplicity of asking? And does this "ask and you shall receive" ability, have requirements? A requirement of a certain frame of mind, of belief, of ability to overcome the doubt that it really is that simple? And if there is a requirement, how then does one achieve that ability? Is it in fact through conditioning of the mind, of breaking down the doubts, of self realization? or is it really just as simple as - that the universe does supply what you ask for, all you need to do is ask?