Aggressive Prayer

Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart. Luke 18:1



God is not a stingy Father who will only answer our prayers if we badger him. When we pray, we are speaking to a Father who wants to answer our prayers, a Father whose ear is open to what we have to say.

Jesus said "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened unto you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks, finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened." Matt. 7: 7-8.
The Lord's language is unusually compelling in these verses, because of the 3 verbs He uses - ask, seek, knock indicate an ascending intensity.

To ask means to request assistance.
To seek means to ask but includes action.
To knock means to ask plus action plus persevering.

Sometimes you have to step it up and get aggressive in prayer. You are not insulting God when you pray according to His will.
This is pleasing to God. When you ask according to His will, and there is an obstacle in your way, you can either give up or say I am overcoming this obstacle. I am not giving up on this.
Keep asking, Keep seeking, Keep knocking, that is what Jesus is teaching us.
(this is part of a daily devotion I received thru email)