Reply To: Are we benefited by praying?"

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January 26, 2016 at 4:47 pm #383

Fairlie

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Jesus’ explanation about prayer, after giving the disciples his prayer to Our Father, is very encouraging. He gives the illustration of someone’s going to a friend’s house at midnight to ask for three loaves because he has a guest who has just come to his home and he has nothing to offer him. But when the friend says no, as Jesus explains: “I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth” and he goes on to urge: ‘Ask,… seek, … knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” This illustration of persistence is so important in working for and with God to change one’s life.