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Compare Matthew 7:7-11; John 14:13-14; 15:7; 16:24
In this passage, Jesus encourages disciples to pray.
If ordinary mortal fathers are often inclined to grant the requests of their children, God — whose goodness is perfect, rather than, like ours, partial and occasional and constrained by changeable moods — will be much more inclined to do so.
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