Persistence

Luke 11:5-8   
5 And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within and say, “Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? 8 I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

Friendship may not motivate us to inconvenience ourselves to help, but persistence can influence us to help as we see the need must be real and pressing.  So God teaches us to persist in prayer, asking and not giving up.  If the need is real, He knows, and answers when seeing our persistent pleading relies on His grace for fulfillment.