Jesus said to his disciples:

7 “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! 12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets."

Matthew 7:7-12 - World English Bible

Matthew's gospel contains five discourses (akin to the five books of the Law); his comments on "seeking and finding" lie towards the end of the first discourse (Matthew 5-7). In context, the subject matter referred to relations between Christians in the community. The setting echoed living in a clan compound, where the seeker knocked on the doors of relatives for a desired object (7:7-8). The one receiving the request would not trick a his son, substituting a rock for a barley loaf (similar in size and color) or a serpent for a fish (eel). No, a parent naturally wanted to give good gifts to children, so did the Father in heaven (prayer had a seek-request nature). Jesus ended this passage with a vague reference to the Golden Rule as the summation of Scripture ("the law and the prophets"). In other words, the give and take, request and reply within the community itself fulfilled the Torah, for it was analogous to prayer.

How do you treat your family and friends? Can that treatment be prayerful?