Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 24:43 gives us something the Torah rarely does. A narrator narrating himself. Eliezer is now sitting at Laban's table, and he is walking his hosts back to the scene by the water. "Behold, I stand at the fountain of water — let the damsel who may come forth to fill, to whom I will say, Give me now a little water to drink from thy pitcher..."
Notice the present tense. "I stand." The servant does not say, "I stood." The Targum keeps the verb alive, as if the moment at the well were still happening. When a faithful person retells the story of God's providence, the story refuses to be past. It stays open in the telling.
Read the servant's rhetorical strategy. He is asking Laban and Bethuel to do something enormous — to release their daughter to a stranger bound for a distant land. And he does not argue. He narrates. He simply tells them what happened, step by step, at that fountain. He trusts the story to do the persuading.
The sages of the Talmud noticed the generosity of the Torah here. Genesis 24 devotes more verses to Eliezer's retelling of his prayer than to any other single conversation in the book of Genesis. The Torah lingers on his mouth because the servant's faithful speech is a teaching. Tell the story of providence in detail. Name the fountain. Name the pitcher. Let the people you are trying to convince hear the small texture of grace.
That is how faith persuades. Not with argument. With specifics.