Express your prayers with passion as the Spirit leads. God answers the persistent.
“Now Esther spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Haman the Agagite” (Est 8:3)
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matt 7:7-8)
“pray without ceasing” (1Thes 5:17)
“Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” (Heb 4:16)
“Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” (Rom 8:26-27)
“And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?” (Lk 18:7)
“And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” (Jn 14:13)
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire [thelo], and it shall be done for you.” (Jn 15:7)
“If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.” (Jn 14:14)
“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.” (Jn 15:16)
“And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.” (Jn 16:23)
“Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” (Jn 16:24)
“Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive, and you will have.” (Mk 11:24)
“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Lk 11:9-10)
Reading: Est 8-10; Acts 11