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Jesus said, asking that you'll be given, seeking you shall find,

knock and the door shall be open. We have to be persistent in our prayer.

We're not bothering God when we pray repeatedly. Pastor Greg Lawry reminds us,

God invites us to keep asking. Well, we're praying for God's will in our life,

when we just can't back down, we can't give up. We have to keep seeking, we have to keep asking,

we have to keep knocking. Don't give up.

This is the day when the last stop found. This is the day for a moment again.

Amazing grace, how sweet the snow. Again, you hear the only angel from senior.

This is the day the day we live again.

When you walk up to a French door and knock,

do you give it just one little wrap, one single knock and then stop?

And then you'll probably give it three or four taps.

And then if they don't come to the door, maybe a knock again, or you ring the doorbell.

Well, today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Lawry says,

we should practice the same persistence in our prayers.

Pastor Greg is speaking to us from the Hawaiian Islands today,

as he was there preaching at the Maui satellite campus of his home church.

Jesus said, after this man and therefore you should pray,

our Father who art in heaven, howl would be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth,

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