Keep on asking

“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for…….. You fathers – if your children ask for a fish, do you give them a snake instead?.....If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.” (Luke 11: 9-13) – New Living Translation
On how to pray, Jesus tells us above to ask and keep on asking. How do we know when to stop asking since we know from experience that not every request is granted? It is easy to know when to stop, when we are completely detached as to the outcome of our desire. This is not something that is easy to do for most of us. When you believe that you know more than God what you need, it becomes impossible to let Him decide when to grant the desire, how to grant the longing and if to grant the desire at all. The cardinal rule of effective prayer is to align our desires to the mind of God. If we do this, we become totally detached as to the outcome of our desire. When we become truly children, God become a Father to us.
We stop asking for the object when the desire for that object is taken away from you. When we rest in the arms of God like a weaned child in its mother’s arms, God knows the perfect time to take away that toy that we cling to so jealously.