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(2 Tim. 2, 11–19; Luke 18, 2–8) To make the truth more impressive, “that one must always pray and not lose heart” (Luke 18:1), if the prayer is not quickly answered, but continues to pray, the Lord told a parable of how a judge, who did not fear God and was not ashamed of people, finally granted the request of a widow, not because he feared God and was ashamed of people, but because the widow did not give him peace. So, if such a hardened person could not resist the persistence of the petition, will not the humane-loving and abundantly merciful God fulfill the petition that is relentlessly offered to Him with tears and contrition?! And here is the answer to why our prayers are often not heard. Because we send our petitions to God not diligently, as if in passing, and, moreover, in such a way that having prayed once today, tomorrow we wait for the fulfillment of our prayer, without thinking about sweating and overworking ourselves in prayer. So our prayer is not heard and not fulfilled, because we ourselves do not fulfill, as it should, the law of trusting and diligent persistence laid down for prayer. You might be interested in: