Luke 11:5-9
And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Tag: Persistence Prayer
God promises to answer our prayers. Although we have to realize His answers are not always according to our scripts. He has His own way to fulfill our prayers. This is why were are to pray to have things on earth as they are in heaven. We should want heaven's will in our life on earth. With that said, we need to know that God also does not answer our prayers according to our timing. He isn't a wish maker. God wants us to have a relationship with Him. In the above passage we see that God is the one who determines the time of our answer. We are to simply be persistent in prayer. Asking God for something is to be a relational matter of trust and obedience to God. It isn't God holding on to the gift and simply torturing us in prayer. It is God asking us to be persistence to learn as we ask about Him. The first time we ask we may be missing the mark with our prayer. As we continually ask we can find a way to refine our prayer and ask in more accordance with His will and with His divine promises. Persistence in prayer isn't because God is stubborned or uninterested in us. Persistence is to teach us to pray. That is what the disciples ask Jesus about as he gave this parable. Persistence in prayer is how we learn to pray.
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