This reminds me of the parable of the widow and the unjust judge from Luke 18, where the widow perseveres in asking the judge for a judgement in her favor and t

This reminds me of the parable of the widow and the unjust judge from Luke 18, where the widow perseveres in asking the judge for a judgement in her favor and the judge eventually accedes because he's so tired of seeing her. (The point of the parable, as I understand it, is not "One Weird Social Engineering Trick That Will Always Get You What You Want!!!11" but rather that we should persevere in prayer and petitions to God because, if even the unjust judge was eventually moved, how much more likely is our heavenly Father to grant us our heart's desire because he isn't unjust like the judge. This is an example of an "a fortiori" argument, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_a_fortiori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_a_fortiori , which are fairly common in scripture.)