Luke 11:9

For every one that asketh receiveth,.... Some indeed ask and receive not, because they ask amiss, Jam 4:3 who either apply to a wrong person, or ask in a wrong manner, or from wrong principles, or…

See this explained in the notes at Mat 7:7-11. Luk 11:12 “A scorpion” See the notes at Luk 10:19. Dr. Thomson (The Land and the Book, vol. i. p. 379) says: “There is no imaginable likeness between an…

And (or, therefore) I say unto you, Ask - Be importunate with God, not so much to prevail on him to save you, as to get yourselves brought into a proper disposition to receive that mercy which he is…

Prayer is one of the great laws of natural religion. That man is a brute, is a monster, that never prays, that never gives glory to his Maker, nor feels his favour, nor owns his dependence upon him.…

Ask, and it shall be given you Mat 7:7-11; Mat 21:22; Mar 11:24; Joh 16:23. Doubtless these teachings were repeated more than once to different listeners. God's unwillingnessto grant is never more…