Persistent Prayer is taught by Y’shua as well as a quick answer to prayer. We need to have faith, but we are not to be quitters. If at first you do not succeed, try, try again—and again.
Luke 11:5. Then He said to them, “Who of you will have a friend and will go to him at midnight and would say to him, ‘Friend, you must now lend me three loaves of bread, 6. since my friend came to me from a journey and I do not have anything to set before him:’ 7. and answering from inside, he said, ‘You must not cause me trouble: the door has already been shut and my children are with me in the bed: I am not able to get up to give it to you.’ 8. I say to you, even if he will not get up to give to him because he is a friend, but because of his shamelessness, when he gets up, he will give him what he needs. 9. And I say to you, You must continually ask and it will be given to you, you must continually seek and you will find, you must continually knock and it will be opened to you: 10. for everyone who asks takes and the one who seeks finds and for the one who knocks it will be opened. 11. And which of you if a son will ask his father for a fish will he then give him a snake instead of a fish? 12. Or also, if he will ask for an egg, will he give a scorpion to him? 13. If therefore you, who are evil yourselves, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father from heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.”
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