The prayer that God answers - Bog af Abdenal Carvalho - Paperback
Jesus presents three metaphors about prayer: ask, seek and knock. The first word (\ask\, Gr. aiteite) means to pray with a sense of dependency. It is used by the person who arrives empty-handed and says \I have nothing to buy.\ Jesus never prayed like that, that is, like someone very poor. But this is how we must ask the father, as destitute and in need of everything. The second word (\seek\, Greek zêteite) contains the idea of care or concern and characterizes anxious anxiety, that is, we..