Friday Morning Devotion

Now that we are at the end of our fasting, don’t let this be the end.

Don’t plan how you are no longer gonna get up at whatever time and that sleep is going to consume you.

No. Stay persistent, which means constant, lasting, enduring

Especially if you haven’t seen the breakthrough you want to see.

We are in war! We have an enemy who never stops, so neither can we.

Luke 18:1–8 NLT

One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. “There was a judge in a certain city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people. A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, saying, ‘Give me justice in this dispute with my enemy.’ The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people, but this woman is driving me crazy. I’m going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!’ ” Then the Lord said, “Learn a lesson from this unjust judge. Even he rendered a just decision in the end. So don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?”

James 4:3 NLT

And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

James 1:6 NLT

But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.