By Fr. Lawrence G. Lovasik - As prayer is a necessary means of obtaining every need, so it is also sufficient for everything... The power of prayer comes from the promise that Jesus made concerning prayer, as He so beautifully shows: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.”