In the first chapter of Luke, Jesus tells a story about a person going to a friend at midnight to ask for three loaves of bread to feed another friend who has journeyed a long ways to visit him. The person asking for help has no food in his house to feed his weary and hungry friend, so he brazenly knocks on the door in the sleep of the night to ask for some bread. At first the man behind the locked door refuses, but because of his friend's persistence, he eventually gives in to his request.
After telling this story, Jesus explains, in verses nine and ten, the lesson on prayer he was trying to teach his disciples.
"So I say to you:
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives;
the one who seeks finds;
and to the one who knocks,
the door will be opened."
Luke 1:9-10 (NIV)
If we don't ask God, we won't receive. If we don't seek, we won't find. And if we don't knock, the door won't be opened unto us. We must ask, seek, and knock, and keep asking, seeking, and knocking until we have what we desire, if what we desire is in accordance to God's goodness and will.
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