The Necessity of Prayer

Do you have a habit of prayer?

2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Luke 18:7 NIV

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?

When have you asked yourself these questions?

Jesus foresaw His disciples struggling with prayer

Luke 18:1 NIV

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

Matthew 26:40–41 NIV

Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter. “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Jesus provides a common sense example of continual prayer

Luke 18:2–5 NIV

He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’ ”

And now we are left with the same question we started with….

Luke 18:7–8 NIV

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? I 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 problem with prayer is not God’s faithfulness, but ours!

Will He find faith when He comes?

Start praying today!

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