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Romans 12 2 says rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing instant in prayer. See God wants us to continue our prayer life. It's not just a, oh I'm in trouble, I better get down on my knees and pray for something and then the next time he hears from you is like three weeks later. He wants you to continue in your prayer life. Not to just stop. That's why it says pray without ceasing. You know people say, well pray without ceasing. That means that I always have to be praying 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That's impossible. That's not what that's talking about. That's why I don't believe that's what that's talking about. Pray without ceasing means you don't quit your prayer life. You don't stop your prayer life. You continue. Pray without ceasing. Don't stop. You know if someone says a cigarette cessation program, right? You want to stop smoking, alright? Without ceasing to smoke cigarettes. So when you cease smoking cigarettes, you've ceased cigarette smoking, right? But what we're talking about here is prayer. You don't want to cease your prayer. You want to continue to pray. And it says continuing instant in prayer. Philippians 4, 6 where you're at it says, be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. So God is, you know, you talk about prayer requests. That's a biblical term. Your requests with thanksgiving, with supplication, by prayer let your requests be made known to God. And God wants to, he wants to hear from you. He wants to hear from your requests. Your children, dads, your children will ask you for things, right? Do you like when they ask or do you like when they just take stuff when they're not supposed to? Do you like when they ask, right? I like to give my kids nice things. I like to do nice things for my kids. And most normal dads like to do that, right? God is our Father and he wants to give us and do nice things for us and he wants to answer our prayers. But the Bible says you have not because you ask not. You know, you don't ask. And so why is God going to do something for you if you won't even talk to him? You don't even ask for it. You're like, oh, I can't believe I don't have this. Why don't you ask for it, you know?