A persistent prayer: someone who prays continually

A while back i wanted to share something about Luke 18. Now that i have the time-i shall share.

There are times in everyone's life when you pray about something/someone for days, weeks, months and years. I'm certainly part of that crew. But for this scripture to have a personal meaning for me/you, you'll have to understand what happened to me a few months ago. There was a time in my life when i literally stopped praying. Why? you may ask; I honestly stopped praying because i thought God was tired of hearing my same prayer over and over and over again. To me, it seemed like He had heard it enough times and why was i asking for the same thing again anyway. God obviously heard me, i didn't need to repeat my prayer again. i think another reason why i stopped was because i felt like i was always asking this for myself or that for someone else. I knew that i needed this or that, and i knew that God could supply it to me- but every time i prayed- it seemed like i was always asking for stuff. I got tired of this and eventually stopped praying.

A smaller while ago, i read Luke 18. I went back to read the first couple of verses.
^"1Then 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?"

The part that stood out to me was this:
And 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?"

I thought about this and how the widow finally got what she was asking for because of her persistence. She kept coming to the judge day in and day out asking for the same thing over and over and over again. She had the faith that she would eventually get what she wanted even though it probably took a lot longer than she expected. These verses encouraged me to NOT STOP PRAYING. Even though i may not see the results right away (when i want to), i know God's timing is perfect. My prayer was not for justice to be brought on someone or on my enemy- but the principle still remains. Persistent prayer increases faith.

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