Persistent Prayer
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Luke 11:5-8; 18:1-8
These passages are sermons and illustrations unto themselves.
I read them and i think, “that's pretty straight forward: pray and keep on praying”
Jesus also said, Jn 14:13
13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
In my name is key, it means asking in accordance and alignment with His will. But even asking in His name and In His known will, we must persist.
When we are sure of the outcome, we have confidence and boldness in our ventures.
Our confidence, our faith, is in God and in what He has declared. Often it’s in His character to act a certain way.
When we ask persistently, without fear, in complete boldness we will receive what we ask for, so long as we ask until we see resolution.
The man didn’t ask, seek, and knock until he received an answer. He asked, sought, and knocked until he received resolution.
Jesus gave us the illustrations and told us how it works, so i felt it would be great, especially where this is more of a teaching than preaching, to look at how this principle works in action.
Life of Abraham - God approached Abraham and called Him out from his father’s land and gave him a promise, then Abraham prayed 25 yrs to see it fulfilled.
Daniel prayed and fasted (mourned) 3 weeks to receive revelation of what God spoke to Him in Daniel 10.
The basis of bold, brash, fearless, persistent prayer is faith.
Faith is simply believing God. Believing in Him and believing Him.
“True faith will persist in prayer.”
The illustration is that the prayers break down the person your asking, like the parent who breaks down and buys the spoiled brat a candy bar because they can’t handle the whining.
The kid doesn’t care what their tantrum looks like, they just know it gets results.
I don’t believe this is what Jesus was trying to convey.
Remember, what we’re asking for is in His will. It’s something He’s placed inside of us or revealed to us. We’re just reminding Him of His promise and holding Him to it.
Prayer breaks us down.
This type of prayer gets us in alignment with God's will.
There are times where we seek God and the immediate answer is know or there’s no immediate answer.
I believe God does respond to our truest heartfelt bottom of the barrel prayers with His compassion. There are other scriptures that suggest God is a big softie when it comes to His kids.
23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
6 In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.