" All of Jesus’ teaching on prayer in the Gospels can be summarized with one word: ask. His greatest concern is that our failure or reluctance to ask keeps us distant from God. But that is not the only reason he tells us to ask anything. God wants to give us good gifts. He loves to give. In the parable of the persistent "

― Paul E. Miller , A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World