From all eternity, God has foreseen all the help we need and also the assistance, the graces that would move us to ask, because He treats us as free children and asks for our collaboration. We need so much to ask for God's help, to do good, to persevere, as the sowing is needed to harvest the wheat. Without the sowing, there are no ears; without petition, we shall not have the graces we should receive. And as we intensify our petition we identify our will with that of God, who is the One who truly knows our hardship and scarcity. At times He makes us wait to prepare ourselves better, so that we desire those graces with more depth and fervor; at other times He rectifies our request and grants us what we really need; finally, at other times He does not grant us what we ask for because, without perhaps realizing it, we are asking for an evil that our will has clothed with the appearance of good. A mother does not give her child a sharp knife that shines and attracts and that the little creature desires with passion. And we are like little children before God. When we ask for something that would be bad, even if it has the appearance of good, God does as good mothers do with their younger children: He gives us other graces that will be for our benefit, even if, because of our few lights, we desire them less. Our prayer, then, must be trusting, like one who asks his father, and serene, because God knows well the needs we suffer from, much better than we do ourselves.
Confidence moves us to ask constantly, with perseverance, without ceasing, insisting over and over again, with the certainty that we will receive much more and better than what we have asked for. We must insist like the importunate friend who lacked bread and like the defenseless widow who cried out night and day before the iniquitous judge. Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. The same perseverance in petition increases trust and friendship with God. "And this friendship that prayer produces opens the way for an even more confident supplication (...), as if, introduced into divine intimacy by the first plea, we could implore with much more confidence the next time. That is why, in the petition addressed to God, constancy, insistence, is never inappropriate. On the contrary, it pleases God. This Canaanite woman is an example, to be imitated, of constancy, even if the Lord apparently did not listen to her.
When speaking of the efficacy of prayer, Jesus does not make any restrictions: everyone who asks receives, because God is our Father. St. Augustine teaches that our prayer is not heard at times because we are not good, because we lack cleanliness of heart or rectitude of intention, or because we ask badly, without faith, without perseverance, without humility; or because we ask for bad things, that is, what is not convenient for us, what can hurt us or twist our way. That is: prayer is not effective when it is not true prayer. "In what human business can you be most assured of success? " Truly I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, if you have faith, he will give it to you.
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