Some things are so important that you cannot stop praying about them until the answer arrives. One of them is that the church (that’s you and me, the Christians!) in your town, in my town and around the world would glorify Jesus Christ in word and deed. That instead of being an exclusive “club” that takes care of “its own”, it (we) would seek to minister to the lost and love all of those that Christ died for on the cross at Calvary; the poor, the needy, the orphan, the widow and each other!
At times, it can seem as if God doesn’t hear our prayer in this regard, but we are promised that He will. We need to keep at it even when it seems like nothing is happening. He tells us that if we ask anything in His name (and according to His will) that He will do it.
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. 3And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care about men, 5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually wear me out with her coming!’”
6And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
Many things are worth praying about even when it seems like you’ve been praying for a long time. God is faithful and He will hear your prayers.
Don’t get discouraged when it seems like you are not seeing the answer…simply be faithful in what you are called to do…pray. Thank God for His provision in advance and trust Him to accomplish it.
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