George Buttrick, the late professor of Christian Morals at Harvard, wrote that prayer often seems “like a spasm of words lost in cosmic indifference.”

If my prayers go unanswered perhaps I didn’t use the correct formula or I wasn’t persistent enough or I didn’t pray with enough faith without any doubting. Is there a key out there somewhere that will open the lock to God’s blessings and all I have to do is find it? Some say the key to answered prayer is found in our text today.