Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Luke 11:9-13
by: Joan Small.
When we ask for something that we need and do not receive it, we might be tempted to allow feelings of disappointment and despair to overcome us. Jesus taught the persistence of praying for what we need until we receive it—assuring His disciples that the person who asks, seeks, and knocks will receive. He asked the disciples if any of them would give their children something that is worthless or something to harm them when they asked for something they needed. If the disciples, born with an evil nature, knew the best thing to give their children, God, as our Father, will give us only the best.