To those that know Jesus Christ in an intimate way, we have promises from God that the world does not have. In a measure they are ours for the asking. There are promises that are "conditional". We have to meet the conditions in order to receive. "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you". John 15:7. We can't pick and choose what pan of the Bible we want to apply to our lives and expect God to answer our prayers. Our lives must be conformity to the word of God. If we are in a daily walk with God, we can apply to our lives what God spoke to Jeremiah 33:3 "Call unto me, and I will answer they and show Thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not".

We could be living below our privileges as far as our blessings are concerned from God. "Ye lust, and have not: ye kill and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and ware, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lust." James 4:2 and 3.

We all should feel the need to pray, when we pray we should expect things from God. In prayer we are not to present to God our shopping list, he has promised to supply our needs according to his riches in glory by Jesus Christ. Phil 4:19.

Our persistency in prayer is given to us by our Lord Himself. In the parable that Christ gave when we should pray, it was because the woman "continual coming" to the judge that he gave her her wish.

We must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. Hebrew 11:6. Also see Luke 11 where Jesus taught his disciples how to pray.