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But let him ask in faith; with confidence of God’s hearing, grounded on the Divine attributes and promises, Mar_11:24 1Jo_5:14.
Nothing wavering; either not disputing God’s power or promise; or rather, not doubting, not slandering through unbelief, Rom_4:20, where the same Greek word is used: so Act_10:20, nothing doubting; and Mar_11:23, where it is opposed to believing.
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed: this notes either the emptiness and unprofitableness of faithless prayer, when men’s minds are thus at uncertainties, tossed to and fro; the confidence they sometimes seem to have, like waves, falls down and fails, and their prayers come to nothing: or, the disquiet and torment distrust works in the minds of such waverers, which are never settled till faith come and fix them, Isa_57:20.