The Lord's Prayer

Many of us lack the confidence to stay before him in prayer because we feel sometimes like, well, he didn't answer the first time we prayed, so it must not be his will. So we sacrifice the very thing he birthed in us. And he gives us the assignment to knock and continue knocking because something changes in me. Some prayers are so large they cannot be answered for the individual. They can only be answered in the whole for a body, for a church family, even a spiritual nation.