Bible Lesson: Parables-Our Lord's:
Three Loaves Of Bread.
Occasion: Disciples Seek To
Learn About Prayer.
Lesson: Persistence In Prayer,
Pays Off!
Bible Text:
Luke 11:5-10 NLT
5 Then, teaching them more about
prayer, He used this story: “Suppose you went to a friend’s house
at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread. You say
to him,
6 ‘A friend of mine has just arrived
for a visit, and I have nothing for him to eat.’
7 And suppose he calls out from his
bedroom, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is locked for the night, and
my family and I are all in bed. I can’t help you.’
8 But I tell you this—though he won’t
do it for friendship’s sake, if you keep knocking long enough, he
will get up and give you whatever you need because of your shameless
persistence.
9 “And so I tell you, keep on asking,
and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will
find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
10 For everyone who asks, receives.
Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will
be opened.
Godly Perseverance:
Deuteronomy 4:29 KJV
But if from thence thou shalt seek
The Lord thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all thy
heart and with all thy soul.
I Chronicles 16:11 KJV
Seek The Lord and His strength, seek
His face continually.
II Chronicles 7:14 KJV
If My people, which are called by My
name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn
from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will
forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Job 17:9 NLT
The righteous keep moving forward,
and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
Proverbs 8:17 KJV
I love them that love Me; and those
that seek Me early shall find Me.
Hosea 10:12 NLT
I said, ‘Plant the good seeds of
righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard
ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek The Lord, that He
may come and shower righteousness upon you.’
Matthew 26:41 KJV
Watch and pray, that ye enter not
into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Luke 18:1 KJV
And He spake a parable unto them to
this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
John 15:9 KJV
As The Father hath loved Me, so have
I loved you: continue ye in My love.
Galatians 6:9 KJV
And let us not be weary in well
doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Ephesians 6:18 KJV
Praying always with all prayer and
supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
perseverance and supplication for all saints;
I Thessalonians 5:17 KJV
Pray without ceasing.
Hebrews 12:1,2 KJV
1 Wherefore seeing we also are
compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us
run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus The Author and
Finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of The Throne Of God.
I Peter 1:13-16 NLT
13 So think clearly and exercise
self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come
to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world.
14 So you must live as God’s
obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to
satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then.
15 But now you must be holy in
everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy.
16 For the Scriptures say, “You
must be holy because I am holy.”
Revelation 3:11 KJV
Behold, I come quickly: hold that
fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Answer To Prayer:
Job 34:28 KJV
"... the cry of the poor to
come unto Him, and He heareth the cry of the afflicted.
Psalm 4:3 KJV
But know that The Lord hath set
apart him that is Godly for Himself: The Lord will hear when I call
unto Him.
Psalm 18:6 KJV
In my distress I called upon The
Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of His temple,
and my cry came before Him, even into His ears.
Psalm 34:17 KJV
The righteous cry, and The Lord
heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Psalm 91:15 KJV
He shall call upon Me, and I will
answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and
honor him.
Proverbs 15:29 KJV
The Lord is far from the wicked: but
He heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 58:9 NLT
Then when you call, The Lord will
answer.‘Yes, I am here,’ He will quickly reply..."
Isaiah 65:24 KJV
And it shall come to pass, that
before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I
will hear.
Micah 7:7 KJV
Therefore I will look unto The Lord;
I will wait for The God Of my Salvation: my God will hear me.
Zechariah 13:9 KJV
And I will bring the third part
through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will
try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My name, and I will
hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord
is my God.
Matthew 7:7-11 NLT
7 “Keep on asking, and you will
receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on
knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks, receives.
Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will
be opened.
9 “You parents—if your children
ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead?
10 Or if they ask for a fish, do you
give them a snake? Of course not!
11 So if you sinful people know how
to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly
Father give good gifts to those who ask Him.
Matthew 21:21,22 KJV
21 Jesus answered and said unto
them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye
shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye
shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into
the sea; it shall be done.
22 And all things, whatsoever ye
shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
John 14:13,14 KJV
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in My
name, that will I do, that The Father may be glorified in
The Son.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in My
name, I will do it.
John 15:7 KJV
If ye abide in Me, and My words
abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto
you.
John 16:24 KJV
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My
name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
I John 5:14 KJV
And this is the confidence that we
have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He
heareth us:
Dear Christian friend, Persistence In
Prayer, Pays Off! Whatever you do, keep praying!
