Here are some questions to help you process this message and apply it to your life: 

1. What are your first thoughts about prayer?

Read Matthew 7:7-11.

2. What are your first impressions of Jesus' words in these verses?

3. How do you make sense of unanswered prayer? How has it or does it affect your trust in God?

4. What has your experience been with prayer? Do you find it easy or difficult? Why?

5. What do you think it means that “prayer is not a task of expediency, but a practice of intimacy”? How does this idea change the way you pray?