3. The absolute necessity of using this means, if we would receive any gift from God, yet farther appears from that remarkable passage which immediately precedes these words: \u201cAnd he said unto them,\u201d whom he had just been teaching how to pray, \u201cWhich of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and shall say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves: And he from within shall answer, Trouble me not; I cannot rise and give thee. I say unto you, though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he needeth. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you.\u201d (Luke 11:5, 7\u20139.) \u201cThough he will not give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.\u201d How could our blessed Lord more plainly declare, that we may receive of God, by this means, by importunately asking, what otherwise we should not receive at all?<\/p>\n
Wesley, J. (1999). Sermons, on several occasions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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