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Let's be a prayerful person

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[Luke 11:8]

I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man's boldness he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

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Where Jesus was praying. When Jesus finished praying, one of his disciples came and said, "Jesus, teach us how to pray."

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At the request of the disciples, Jesus told His disciples that we already knew the Lord's Prayer. Let us pray with the Lord's Prayer as it is written in Luke.

"Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.

And lead us not into temptation."

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After speaking of the Lord's Prayer, Jesus taught His disciples through parables about prayer. There were two friends living in the same town.

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One day it happened in a very deep evening.

A friend who is traveling from a distance came to a person's house.

He wanted to give something for his friend, but he had nothing to eat.

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This person went to a friend who lives close to him. It was time for everyone to fall asleep. But he knocked on the door of his friend's house to get a bread for his friend.

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A friend who fell asleep at the door knocked and asked him who he was.

"I am so sorry at night, but a friend of mine has come to me from afar,

and I have no food for him, so let me borrow three loaves of bread."

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His friend said. "What is this rude thing to you?

The door is already locked and my children are lying in bed with me.

Do not bother me, you go back."

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Upon hearing this, this friend again begged his friend.

"Look, I know it's rude, but for a friend from afar, please get up and lend me three loaves of bread." This person did not go back and kept asking.

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He was going to be harassed all night if he did not listen to his request.

He thought it would be better to solve it sooner.

The landlord got up from bed and took three loaves of bread and gave it to him.

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Jesus, who finished the story, explained in detail.

"The friend who lend the bread was not the one who lent bread

because the person he came to was his friend.

Because the person who came to ask him persistently, he asked for his favor."

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Having said this, He then spoke of the attitude that we should have when we pray. "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;

knock and the door will be opened to you."

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We must be like a person who has persistently asked his friend to pray to borrow bread when praying. In addition, we must pray with the heart of knocking on the door, with eagerness to seek what is necessary as Jesus said,

and with zeal to find something worthy.

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Jesus said that the fathers who had children on earth would give the son something good he asked for. Jesus said that among the fathers of this world, a son wants a fish, but no one will give a snake, nor a son wants an egg, nor give scorpions with terrible poison.

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Even this incomplete father of the flesh is willing to give good things to his son,

God, who is perfect and loving, rejoices when we pray that we are His children.

And the Lord has told us that we are much better than what we have asked God.

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We, who believe in Jesus and become children of God,

are granted special rights to pray to God the Father.

We must be the ones who give the right prayer today as Jesus said.

If we ask our Father God for our needs, we must be people who pray with earnest hearts, believing that the good God answers our prayers and gives them better.

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