So we taking a break from the Genesis
series, we're coming back next a week to
the Genesis series with a pastor
Richard. But invite you to open your bibles
date to the eleventh chapter of the gospel
of Luke.
And today, we're gonna be looking at this
parable
taught by Jesus about prayer.
Now this parable does not teach us everything
about the christian doctrine of prayer, and there's
much that can be said regarding prayer
Actually, this parable in the gospel of Luke
comes right after Jesus
disciples
asked him to teach them how to pray.
And the first 4 verses of Luke 11,
jesus stitches their disciples to pray with a
well known lord's prayer that we recite every
single Lord's day.
So following Jesus is teaching on the Lord's
prayer, he goes on
to tell his disciples
parable
about the efficacy
about the efficiency
about the effectiveness
of prayer,
and the teaching of Jesus here in this
parable
is to encourage you dear Christian.
Is to encourage his followers,
his people, his church to pray
to pray
boldly.
He's encouraging us to ask
to seek
and knock
Jc R comments that in this verse our
lord jesus christ struck us about prayer.
This subject
of prayer is 1 which can never be
too strongly pressed on our attention.
Prayer lies at the very root
of our practical
christianity.
It is part of the daily business of
our religious life.
We have reason to thank God that upon
no point has our lord jesus Christ,
spoken so fully and frequently as upon prayer.
But if we if we were honest with
ourselves, and and I was say if we
were to make a poll of Christians,
in all over the the place
about and asking a question about some aspect
of their
Christian life
that they would like to be more faithful
in,
I think if prayer not on the top
of the list.
I say it would be in the top
3.
But if we all know that we can
be more faithful in in prayer,
What are some of the biggest obstacles
and struggles
that you face in your prayer life?
What about prayer is most difficult
for you?
If you are gonna make a an assessment
of your prayer life which aspects of your
prayer life is the most need of growth.
What is it that motivates you to pray?
Why is it that many times we are
not motivated to pray.
So we are gonna see in this passage
here.
Or Jesus teaching about prayer.
This has got to be 1 of a
Jesus most
encouraging
statements
in all of the Bible
for you dear Christian to pray.
For his for his church to pray to
be bold in prayer,
to pray frequently
expect
confidently
because of the truth that we have a
a heavenly father
who
graciously
and generously
hears
the prayer of his children.
Heavenly father who hears your prayer, the Christian.
So let's look into this parable today. So
here now God's holy in word, luke 11,
beginning in verse
5.
And he Jesus said to them to his
disciples.
Which of you who has a friend will
go to him at midnight and say to
him.
Friend,
lend me 3 loads.
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 bad.
I cannot get up and give you anything.
I tell you.
Though he will not get up and give
him anything because he's his friend,
yet, because of his imp
he will rise and give him whatever he
needs.
And I tell you, ask
and be given to you.
Seek
and you will find
knock
and will be open to you
for everyone who asks
receives
and the 1 who seeks finds
and to the 1 who knocks,
it will be open.
What father among you if he's son asks
for a fish.
Will instead of a fish give him a
serpent?
Or if he asks for an egg, we'll
give him a scorpion.
If you then were evil,
know how to give good gifts to your
children
How much more
will the heavenly father
give the holy spirit to those who ask
him?
This is the word of the Lord.
May god imprint truths upon our hearts. So
we're gonna be looking at this parable under
3 headings. First, we're gonna look at the
parable itself, the parable.
Then we're gonna look at the promise,
and lastly, we're gonna look at the gift.
Almost a iterations. So P,
the parable,
the promise and then the gift.
And this parable is often called the friend
and midnight.
I'm not sure if you have 1 of
those friends that shows up at your door
midnight, but notice how Jesus begins
he's parable. In verse 5,
and he said to them
which
of you?
Which of you.
Now
reform comment and pastor Philip Graham Reich and
he says, commenting on this beginning of this
bear. But he says this is story is
meant to be absurd.
Whenever Jesus introduces a parable with a statement
or a phrase like each of you and
we see that in luke 12 and 14,
We know that he's about to describe something
that would never happen.
The question is a signal that the answer
is no 1 which of you, no 1.
No self respecting member of the covenant community
would refuse to help a neighbor
in need.
And it is well known in in biblical
times that 1 of the values that was
esteem the most was the social duty of
showing
hospitality.
And back then as people travel from town
to town, many times they were the mercy
of people to show them
hospitality.
And you was unheard off,
not to host someone who shows up at
your door.
Even if it is uni unrelated,
Someone who just shows up at your door,
it was unheard of not even to prepare
a meal for them.
Much less if that someone who shows up
is a friend
of yours.
Now it was very common for folks to
travel at night because of the heat in
the Middle East,
We're all too familiar. You know, with the
he here. Pastor Richardson said they even walking
from from the admin building to here. He
was already you know, a sweating. We're all
familiar with the. So it's very common for
folks to to travel at night.
So we... Here we have this person
that arrives at his friends,
home at midnight,
but the host does not have any food
to offer.
And that is a problem. That is a
no knowing in that culture.
So he has a few options under the
circumstances,
he can just say no.
Right? I, I'm not gonna serve him any
food but. Like I said, no 1 does
that back then.
The other option is since he has no
bread
he's probably gonna go to his neighbor's house
or someone close by to see if they
have any bread because his hospitality his
The value of showing hospitality was a stake
here. So the host boldly
goes to his friend at midnight.
Possibly his next door neighbor. He says in
verse 5. Again,
friend,
Lend loves
for a friend of mine has arrived on
a journey,
and I have nothing to set
before him.
So then after verse 6, the narrative
shifts to the friend of midnight. Right? The
man
who is awake in I midnight. Let's call
this man this sleeping neighbor.
K? So the narrative now shifts to the
sleeping neighbor and look what Jesus says in
verse 7.
And he the sleeping neighbor
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.
And think about what would you do Somebody
knocks on your door at midnight.
Right? Nowadays, we might still be watching sports
midnight.
Or scrolling through the phone or
watching a movie or or a series or
something even in our day, we have a,
some of us have tends to be night
house.
Would still be weird first... It would still
be weird for someone to knock on your
door midnight. Right? But back then, what would
people do, you know?
Parents, you know how hard that is. As
soon as you put your children too bed,
do you wanna wake them up?
No you don't. Right?
But you can always... If they wake them
up what can you do. You can tuck
them back into bed, but it's not easy.
So their friend is now happy that he
has been awake in a minute. And he
starts giving all these excuses. Right? He's like,
the door is closed. If I open the
door, he's gonna make a lot of noise
back then, the houses were like this wooden
with his strong beams that you'd have to
get up and walk, they live in small
rooms. They have to get up and walk
probably through the children and open the door.
Start preparing a meal, that's gonna make a
lot of noise is gonna wake everybody up.
The doors shop is late them night. I
cannot get up and help.
So the issue was not that the man
could not help, but that he would not.
It was not a matter of inability,
but of un unwillingness.
Right? He was not willing to do this.
So we don't know if the neighbor kept
insisting kept banging on the door,
but the friend eventually gets up to help.
Jesus says that in verse 8.
Eventually, he does.
Look what Jesus says in verse 8, I
tell you,
though he'll will not get up and giving
me anything because he's his friend
Yet because of his imp,
he will rise and give him whatever
he needs.
Now here in Verse aid, there's a a
difficulty
to interpret the the the phrase that we
look at it again in aid
Because of his imp,
he will rise and give him whatever he
needs.
And these are the difficulty here.
Who is the man that is being described
as imp?
Is it the
man who goes and knocks at the door
midnight or is it the sleeping neighbor?
Right? We don't know. It's like, okay. Which
1 it is? The other difficulty has to
do with the translation of the Greek word
right, and at day end, which is strongly
as imp in your Sv
bibles.
And to be imp is to be imp.
It is to be shameless presumption Is to
be audacious.
Someone who is audacious, not the person feels
ashamed by someone who, like
audacious. Right?
You can also see a footnote if you
have a yes bible that says that this
word can be translated
as persistent.
So the King, James actually,
they go with a ra. They translate
this greek word as
opportunity
which means making persistent
or pressing requests.
Right? The Hiv translates the word as shameless
audacity.
And this is actually literally what the word
means. It means shameless.
Now another year shame, you know, when you
feel guilt or she know. It means like,
a
I like what wound coming Theater. Like he
said, it's like, a san
audacity.
Like, I think you're a bold that your
approach God. Your you approach his throne with
confidence
with his audacity with this bold.
Right? Just like a father, like, like, children
have that, you know, that bonus just to
walk into the parents room anytime
and go to their parents.
Right? So what Jesus teaching here this parable.
Right?
Listen to the this words actually before moving
on to that, Arc pro he comments here
in re re with respect to the Greek
word, Right, which is only only used here
in the new testament.
The word literally means shameless.
But the sensing thing that by Jesus is
unclear. Obviously, the point is that Our
friendship is not enough to make this sleepy
neighbor rise and provide bread for his friend's
unexpected guest.
Something else will motivate the neighbor.
Either the friends. Right? This is 1 interpretation.
Either the friends
shameless,
boldly making a spectacle of himself a midnight
or or the other interpretation, which is the
sleeping neighbors
desire to avoid the social stigma of denying
his friend the wherewithal of
offer hospitality to the Target traveler. In other
words, the sleepy neighbor is trying to say
face.
He's he doesn't wanna
receive the shame that would come. What? You
you had bread and you didn't give bread.
You we know what we do here in
our culture. We gotta practice hospitality.
So is it the sleeping neighbor who is
shameless
or he's gonna feel shame or he is
it that word
to the friend who goes them midnight. I
believe that the correct interpretation given what Jesus
is teaching here in this passage
is that
It is the first 1. It is... This
word is related to the friend who goes
and knocks midnight. He's being bold. He's being
audacious. It's a san
audacity.
And what Jesus is teaching during this parable
is that just like this friend and midnight
who goes
and midnight that we should come to guiding
prayer with the same type of bold
and perseverance.
Listen to this words of reform comment and
pastor Philip Graham Reich and he says.
This then is how we should pray.
Not timid dropping god hints
about what we need.
The boldly
even shameless
presenting our petitions before God
and then continue to pray about them until
we get an answer.
Until we get an answer, but having said
that,
we need to be careful here. Look what
else he he comments, right and he says,
We need to be careful here.
Because if we've pressed the details of the
parable too far,
we will end up making serious errors.
Jesus is not saying that god gets annoyed
when we bother him in midnight
or that he has to be a jo
into giving us what we need or that
we should never take no for an answer.
In fact, God is not
like demanding bed at all.
Jesus is making a contrast to show that
god is ready and willing to help us.
If even the t of neighbors can be
persuaded to help us in the middle of
the night
then how much more
will our father in heaven hear us
when we pray.
Right? So
what is this parable
not
teaching?
Right?
It does not teach that God is like
the sleeping neighbor that doesn't wanna get up.
Right? It does not teach that God does
not wanna be disturbed.
Think about this.
There's no midnight for god.
There's no midnight for god. There is for
us.
But there's no midnight for god.
He's beyond time.
She's eternal.
He transcend time
Right. So there's no midnight for God.
It doesn't teach that God has gone to
bed
So there's a sharp contrast between the sleepy
neighbor and god who the scripture says that
he neither slumber
nor sleeps.
Unlike the sleeping neighbor, god is not
reluctant to answer your prayer dear christian.
He's not bothered by your prayers.
He willingly
welcomes them. Look at his scripture versus Proverbs
15 8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination
to the Lord,
but the prayer of the upright is his
delight.
Mean, is that an encouraging
verse
that your prayers dear christian?
Is of delight to god.
It's a delight to him to your heavenly
father,
Look First Peter 03:12 says for the eyes
of the lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open
to their prayer.
But the face of the lord is against
those who do evil.
For the eyes of the lord are on
you,
dear Christian
and his ears are open to your prayers.
So now that we have a looked at
this parable, and what this parable is saying
and what this parable was not saying. Let's
look at the promise of prayer. And like
I said before, this is probably 1 of
Jesus most
encouraging
is statements
in all of the bible
for you dear Christian to pray.
For his church to pray. For God's people
to pray. Let's look at the promise in
versus 9 and 10. And I tell you
ask
and will be given to you,
seek,
and you will find
knock and will be open to you. For
everyone who asks
receives
and the 1 who seeks
finds
And to the 1 who knocks,
it will
be open. So let's focus on these 3
words, ask
seek and knock.
What does the ask mean? It simply means
to petition
to to request something
It implies that you that you have a
needy, you realize that you have a lack
and you
ask for help. You know, the word some
comment containers says that also suggests humility when
you we ask,
because it's... This word is used when someone
is the asking,
something to a superior, and in this case
is is is God.
That's what asking. So seek, denote asking
but he actually adds action.
This word means to pursue
to endeavor to retain something
The idea is not just to express our
need, and the idea is not just to
ask,
but it is to pursue what we ask.
It is doing endeavor to a retain what
we ask.
It involves effort. So let me give a
a very, clear example. Let's say in your
own personal prayer life,
you're asking for forgot to give you a
deeper knowledge of the bible.
Right? You wanna I have more knowledge of
the Bible.
That's your ask. You ask. Lord, I want
more knowledge of the Bible.
What does the seeking entails
with this petition that you want more knowledge.
The seeking means that you come to church
on Sundays.
Then you come to church every large day,
that you go to Sunday school
that you can join a City group in
the fall,
all these many avenues of this disciples ship
that the church
gives
so that we can have a deeper
knowledge of the Bible.
So now what about the knocking?
The knocking includes the asking,
plus the acting
plus the per,
you keep on knocking until the door is
open.
You keep on coming to church.
You keep on
searching the scriptures. And reading the scriptures
persistent. You keep on studying the Bible. That's
what the knocking
implies here.
So these 3 imperative verbs
indicating, like, an ascending
intensity.
The tax... The text actually reads, keep on
asking
it's gonna be given to you. Keep on
seeking
and you will find. Keep on knocking in
the door will be open to you. It's
a 3 foot
rotation with a 3 threefold promise.
Look at these words, again, from comment Peter
Reich, and he says in these verses,
Jesus assures us that God will answer our
prayers.
He offers these assurance not just once or
twice, but 6 times.
3 verse 9 in 3 verse 10. In
verse 9 Jesus says, ask, and will be
given to you, see can you find now,
and it will be open to you?
Are asking,
seeking
and knocking the Christian, it's not gonna be
vain.
God will give
God will reveal god will open.
In case we have any doubt about this,
Jesus goes on to say for everyone who
asks, receives
and the 1 who seeks finds
and to the 1 who knocks who will
be open. Jesus repeats himself to give us
extra assurance
that our prayers
will be answered.
Now like we said, what does this parable
does not mean?
What does this parable
Do mean what are this versus actually nothing
saying first? What are this versus nothing saying?
So these 3 threefold rotation
with this threefold promise
is not a blank check, meaning that God
is gonna give you everything that you ask.
Right? Because we can pray for wrong things
as James teaches us. In James chapter 4.
He says,
You do not have because you do not
ask. Actually, many times we don't ask, We
don't have because we don't ask.
But sometimes when we do ask,
We do not receive why because you asked
wrongly
to spend it on your passions.
So we can prefer wrong things and guy
I can say, no. So this is not
a blank check.
So this verse is saying that this is
not a blank check. This verse is also
saying that we might also not be praying,
right,
according to God's wording he's revealed will,
the word of God. Right? When we pray,
the word of God
should be the guide of our prayer life.
Everything that we do, the way that we
worship,
way that we pray,
the way that we work the way that
we do ministry everything should be guided
by the word of God. It's the same
with our prayer
life.
So what is this verse actually sing here?
Look at the pastor can cues what he
says?
Those who ask
seek and knock
are people who believe God will answer.
Their prayers are not works,
but acts of faith,
not ritual, but reliance.
Ask seek knock is the hidden fire of
the heart
that believes God will answer and values what
he gives.
But this is the hard thing about this
verse.
About this parable or about prayer,
is that many times, we have to wait
a long time for our prayers to be
answered.
Right? 1 of the challenges
when Christians pray is delayed
is delaying getting our prayers answered That many
times
when we pray, we're gonna have to be
patient and persistent in our waiting,
But what Jesus is saying here is keep
on asking.
Keep on seeking,
keep on knocking.
Because you know why? Delay
does not mean that god is indifferent to
your needs.
Delay does not mean that god is indifferent
to our problems to her
situation, or in ind to the needs of
his covenant people. But looking at the testimony
scriptures, delaying answer to prayer delaying God's promises
realized is a reality. How long did the
Abraham had wait for the center of the
problem isaac?
25 years.
How long did King David had wait from
the time that he was anointed
to the time that he became second in
commanding need egypt. Sorry. So the time that
he was anointed for the time that became
king.
Decades.
What about Joseph?
From the time that he received the prophetic
revelations when he was 17 years old. So
the time that he became Himself coma commander
in Egypt to see that promise realized
He had to wait
13 years.
But the delay does not meaning difference or
what God will not fulfill what he has
promised. And that's actually what Peter, the Apostle
Peter was writing. Said, hey, eu Talk a
lot about that 1 day crisis is going
to come back.
And they're actually, you know,
making fun of of a peter in of
Krishna. Where is this coming?
I mean, you just promised how long ago
2000 years ago, Luca peter says in second
Peter 3.
But do not overlook these 1 fact, beloved
that with the Lord 1 day is as
a thousand years.
And a thousand years as 1 day.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his
promise as some count slowness.
But it's patient toward you not wishing that
should perish,
but that all should reach
repentance.
Now. There's a story about George Mueller,
Mueller that, James boys.
He he tells me his commentary. In George
Mueller, he was the the founder of the
gray. He Christian Orphanage in, in England in
the nineteenth century, and he was a man
of deep prayer.
And
from the the beginning of his you know,
ministry in his life. He started praying to
2 of his friends
who did not know the lord.
Right? That he they they he wanted to
pray that friends would be converted.
So he prayed to every them every day
for them. Do you know for how long?
60 years.
6 0.
60 years,
1 of the men
actually got converted possibly on the last sermon
the George Mueller gave. The last service that
he held,
the man came to faith.
His other friend got converted a year before
he died?
Have you been praying that long for someone?
I love it 1?
A parent,
a brother,
sister,
I have
I have.
Now, I don't know. I want that person
to come to faith.
Want to desire to that for that person,
or wherever that person you're praying for to
get to know the lord that we know.
But we live it up to god,
but what we do, we jesus, keep on
asking.
Keep on seeking,
keep on.
So now that we have looked at the
parable,
and we'll we have looked at the promise.
Let's finish by looking at the gift.
Because Jesus follows up this incredible promise
with a principle that is very common in
Jewish life of reasoning from the lesser
to the greater. So we're gonna see the
gift now verses 11 to 13. So let's
read it. So what farther among you
if she's son asks for a fish,
will instead of a fish giving a serpent.
Or if he asked for an ag, will
give him us scorpion.
If you then who are evil know how
to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will the heavenly father give
the holy spirit to those who ask him?
So once again, in this parable,
Remember when Jesus began, each of you.
He's like, no 1.
Right? Jesus starts the session by asking a
question that seems absurd.
Right parents,
fathers,
mothers. If your son asks you for a
fish,
are you going to give him a serpent?
Of course not.
If he asked for an egg, are you
going to give him a scorpion?
Of course not.
And then Jesus says in verse 13 13.
Again, if you then who are evil,
know how to give good gifts to your
children,
Now let's remember the context. Jesus is teaching
his disciples.
And he's telling his disciples
if you are evil,
but you still are able to give good
guess to your children. What Jesus star
about here is the reality of sin.
The reality of total, d gravity. Right? It
might seem harsh, but he's speaking the truth
that all of us are born with a
simple nature, even redeemed christians
have to fight against the flesh about against
the sinful nature.
And the reality is that our sinful nature
is just as likely to harm
our families, our relationships, right? To affect our
relationships.
Having said that, cancun use
pastor king qc he comments. We
sinful short coming in all, go to great
lengths
to give good gifts to our children.
Right? Isn't that true,
dear Christian.
Remember that Jesus is the arguing here from
the lesser
to the greater and he's saying if he
even knew disciples. He's talking to his disciples.
You give good gifts to your children, how
much more is this true
of our heavenly father.
Our heavenly father who is holy,
who is perfectly righteous.
His wisdom is the infinite
who loves his children perfectly,
who knows what his children needs.
The Romans 08:32.
Says he got the father,
who did not spare his own son, the
Lord jesus Christ,
but gave him up for us all
how will he not also with him graciously
gives us all things?
How much more?
Look, again, the the end of verse 13
how much more
will the heavenly father give the holy spirit
to those who asked him. So first,
Is that how you know God?
Do you know God as your heavenly
father?
There's only 1 way
to become God's son.
There's only 1 way
to be able
to call
godfather and it is through the lord jesus
Christ.
Listen to what the apostle John Rising in
John 1 versus 12, but to all who
did receive him, who receive christ,
who believed in his name in the name
of christ, he gave the right to become
children of God,
who were born, not of blood, nor of
the will of the flesh,
nor the will of men but of god.
Then in first, John 3 1, we see
see what kind of love the father has
given to us
that we should be called children of god.
And so we are.
If you are in Christ, you have repent
of your sins and you have trusted in
him alone for your salvation, God is your
heavenly father?
How does that reality impact you?
How does that reality transform you,
change
you?
Knowing in knowing God
J packer he writes.
If you want to judge how well a
person understands christianity,
Find out how much he makes of the
thought of Being God's child
and having Goddess his father.
If this is not,
the thought that prompts
and controls his worship and prayers
And his whole outlook on life.
It means that he does not understand
christianity very well at all.
The knowledge, the creation of the fathers
of God's
father love should be the thought that prompts
that controls our worship,
our prayers,
you should completely change our whole outlook
on life.
It should transform our attitude and approach
toward prayer.
Because Look what Jesus says again in the
verb in the end 13, how much more
will
d heavenly father, your heavenly father give the
holy spirit
to those who ask him.
I think about the greatest gift that you
have ever received in your life.
What is the greatest gift
that you have received?
No know, for birthday for Christmas? I don't
know. Think about it.
Think about the greatest gift that you can
receive
or that you have received. Listen to Jc
R comments.
The holy period
is beyond doubt.
The greatest gift which god can be stolen
upon man.
Having this gift, we have all things,
life,
light,
hope, and heaven.
Having this gift, we have God the father's
boundless love.
God sons of turning blood and full comm
with all 3 persons of the blessed trinity.
Having this gift, we have grace and keys
in the world than now is
glory and honor
in the world to come?
Why is this the greatest gift?
Great question. I'm glad you asked.
Because of the what this period is gonna
doing us,
Listen to these words again from R And
look at what the promise of what this
period is gonna do yin mule dear Christian.
What will spirit doing us? He will review
the truth God through the teaching of scripture,
which he himself first revealed.
He will give us the conviction of sin
granting us the gift or repentance.
He will purse aid of the truth of
the gospel
working in as the gift of faith.
By faith, he will unite us to Jesus
Christ.
So it is only through this period. We
received the blessings of salvation,
justification, san justification and adoption.
That is not all.
It's only the beginning.
This spirit will win us the victory of
our sin.
This spirit will equip us we give so
firm ministry.
This spirit will grow in us the fruit
of god.
This spirit will assure us that we are
the children of God
And 1 day, this spirit will raise us
from the dead
just as he raised Jesus from the dead.
And by his transforming grace,
he will change us into glory.
Isn't this the greatest gift.
Isn't this the greatest gift
that you dear Christian
can receive
from God.
If you call God your father because you
have repent of your sins
and trusted in Jesus Christ, as lord and
savior for your salvation, you have the gift
of the holy spirit.
The holy spirit ind dwell you.
And these promises that we read are for
you dear Christian.
So remember that
in this passage, we are seeing 1 of
Jesus most
encouraging
statements in all of the bible why we
should pray.
Why we should be bold prayer,
with a san audacity,
to pray frequently to pray confidently to pray
expect,
knowing that the the work what the spirit
is gonna do in our lives. Knowing that
we have a a heavenly father
who graciously and generously
answers the prayer of his people.
And I finish with just 1 final rotation
from Jc c R.
The time and weighing in which our prayers
shall be answered are matters which we must
live entirely to god.
It's his counsel
see his wisdom.
It's his sovereignty.
But that every petition which we offer in
faith shall certainly be answered we need not
doubt.
Let us lay our matters before God, again
and again,
day after day
week after week, month after month year after
year.
The answer may be long coming as it
was in the cases of Hannah in Z.
But Though terry,
let us pray on and wait for it.
At the right time,
it will surely come
and not tar.
Man I'm gonna finish with something now
very profound.
So pay attention,
very profound.
Do you know what you have to do
if you have stop praying.
You know what you have to do is
you have stop praying,
start again.
Start again.
Keep asking.
Keep seeking.
Keep knocking.
Amen, let us pray.
Father, we thank you that
the prayer of your people is your delight.
It's truly incredible to hear this words that
that your prayer our prayers is your delight.
We think you that your ears are open
to our prayers,
As Jesus said, I and I tell you
ask, and you'll be given to you, seek,
and you will find
knock
and it will be open to you for
everyone who asks receives
and the 1 who seeks finds
into the 1 who knocks.
It will be open.
May we run near
to your throne of grace
with bold,
with confidence
so that we may receive mercy
and find grace to help in time of
need.
We pray out the things in christ's name.
Amen.