Always Pray
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1 Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. 3 In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’ 4 For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ ”6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? 8 I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
ALWAYS PRAY
AS A CHRISTIAN…..A CHILD OF GOD….ONE OF THE LORD’S
BELOVED…..YOU HAVE A TOOL AND RESOURCE AFFORDED TO YOU THAT
NO ONE CAN TAKE FROM YOU, THAT NO ONE CAN STOP YOU FROM USING,
A TOOL THAT HAS SUPER NATURAL CAPABILITIES, A TOOL THAT HAS NO
LIMITS, CAN REACH THE HIGHEST HEIGHTS AND SPAN FROM GENERATION
TO GENERATION.
YES MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, YOU HAVE A TOOL THAT THE ENEMY CAN’T STAND, DEMONS SHUTTER AT AND EVIL FORCES FLEE FROM AT THE CALLING OF A NAME.,
BROTHER JOSHUA USED IT AND THE SUN STOOD STILL AND THE MOON STOPPED,
GIDEON USED IT FOR GUIDANCE, ELIJAH CLOSED THE CLOUDS FROM LIQUID SUN SHINE,
PAUL AND SILAS CAUSED EARTHQUAKES THAT SHOOK OPEN PRISON DOORS WITH IT,
PETER LOOSED HIS CHAINS, HAD AN OUTER BODY EXPERIENCE AND BECAME A FREE MAN WITH IT, AND
PAUL SAID TO DO IT WITH OUT CEASING……YOUR GRAND-MOMMA AND YOUR MOMMA USED IT…..AND IT’S PROBABLY THE REASON WHY A LOT OF US ARE HERE TODAY…..
IT CAN BRING HEALING TO YOUR BODY…..IT CAN PROTECT YOU FROM HARMS WAY…..IT CAN MEND BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS…..AND IT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.
I’M TALKING ABOUT PRAYER
I BELIEVE STRONGLY IN PRAYER AND IN THE POWER OF PRAYER.
AND, I BELIEVE IT IS A PART OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD WHERE WE CAN NEVER STOP GROWING IN OR DO TOO MUCH.
I BELIEVE PRAYER IS A WONDERFUL PRIVILEGE THAT GOD EXTENDS TO US TO COME AND TALK TO HIM, TO LAY EVERYTHING AT HIS FEET.
LET ME SUGGEST PRAYER SHOULDN’T BE OUR LAST RESORT WHEN TIMES BECOME DIFFICULT.
RATHER, IT SHOULD BE THE FIRST LIFE-SAVING RING WE GRAB WHEN WE ARE DROWNING AND HOLD ON TO IT FOR DEAR LIFE.
IS IT ALWAYS EASY? NO.
BUT, THEN AGAIN, NEITHER IS LIFE……
SO THE NEED FOR THESE REMINDERS TO TAKE EVERYTHING TO THE LORD IN PRAYER BEFORE, IN THE MIDDLE OF, AND AFTER FEELING TOTALLY OVERWHELMED BY IT ALL.
PRAYER IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE A NATURAL PART OF EVERY CHRISTIAN’S LIFE…./
BUT SOMETHING MANY SELDOM USE IT OR STOP WHEN THEY DON’T RECEIVE AN IMMEDIATE ANSWER OR RESULTS THEY WERE LOOKING FOR.
WHAT JESUS TEACHES US IN TODAY’S PARABLE IS SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO KEEP ON PRAYING……EVEN WHEN THE TEARS KEEP FLOWING…THAT YOU HAVE TO HOLD FAST AND PRAY….
WE CANNOT ALWAYS EXPECT MICROWAVE RESULTS.
SOMETIMES WE MUST LABOR IN PRAYER, AND THROUGH THE POWER OF PRAYER, REPEATEDLY KEEP PETITIONING HEAVEN WITH THOSE REQUESTS.
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’
THE OPERATION OR WORKINGS OF PRAYER HAVE BEEN A MYSTERY TO SOME THROUGH THE AGES.
FOR SOME PRAYER SEEMS TO BE SOME CHRISTIAN DUTY; A CHECK OFF LIST, IF YOU WILL, OF SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
FOR OTHERS, PRAYER SEEMS TO BE ELUSIVE; DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF AND EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TO DO.
TRUTH BE TOLD……PRAYER IS NONE OF THOSE THINGS.
PRAYER IS SOMETHING THAT IS GIVEN TO US AS AN HONOR; AS A WAY TO REACH THE HEAVENLY FATHER PERSONALLY, ONE ON ONE.
HOW AWESOME IS THAT? PRAYER IS AS ESSENTIAL TO THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. IT IS NECESSARY TO STAY SPIRITUALLY NOURISHED IN HIM.
I LIKE THE WAY MARTIN LUTHER (THE GERMAN THEOLOGIAN) SAID IT…., “TO BE A CHRISTIAN WITHOUT PRAYER IS NO MORE POSSIBLE THAN TO BE ALIVE WITHOUT BREATHING,” (QUOTE: BRAINY QUOTE). WHY IS THAT?
WITH EACH INHALE AND EXHALE ONE’S LIFE IS SUSTAINED; SO IS PRAYER THAT DEEPENS THE INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.
IT IS NOT ONLY LIFE-SUSTAINING, BUT IT’S SOUL-SUSTAINING AND A GLORIOUS LOVE CONNECTION.
JESUS, EXPRESSES THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT GIVING UP IN PRAYER.
TO KEEP LABORING THROUGH AND BE PERSISTENT IN OUR REQUESTS TO GOD.
SOME PEOPLE TEACH THAT IF WE KEEP GOING TO GOD OVER AND OVER AGAIN WITH THE SAME REQUEST,
THEN THAT IS A SIGN THAT WE DON’T HAVE THE PROPER FAITH ATTACHED TO OUR REQUEST, OR THAT WE DON’T BELIEVE GOD.
BUT JESUS TEACHES US IN THIS LESSON, “MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, AND NOT TO FAINT.” AND, AS WE FIND IN OUR LESSON, THAT ALSO COVERS WHEN WE REPEATEDLY TAKE THE SAME REQUEST TO HIM IN PRAYER.
THIS WAS A NECESSARY CONCEPT FOR HIS DISCIPLES TO GRASP.
YOU SEE…. JESUS HAD JUST FINISHED TALKING TO HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (LUKE 17:20-37). WHICH MEANS, THERE MUST BE A DEPARTURE FROM HIS FIRST COMING, OR AS WE KNOW, HIS DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION.
DURING HIS EARTHLY MINISTRY, JESUS SPOKE OF AND DEMONSTRATED A LIFE OF PRAYER.
AFTER HIS DEPARTURE, PRAYER IS WHERE THE DISCIPLES MUST FIND STRENGTH IN THE CONTINUING FORTH OF THE MINISTRY LEFT FOR THEM TO FULFILL.
IF JESUS DEPENDED OFTEN ON PRAYER, SURELY THE DISCIPLES, AND WE, NEED IT ALL THE MORE.
A DUTCH WRITER NAMED…CORRIE TEN BOOM ONCE ASKED, “IS PRAYER YOUR STEERING WHEEL OR YOUR SPARE TIRE?” (QUOTE SOURCE: CROSSWALK). BECAUSE, IF IT’S YOUR STEERING WHEEL IT IS SOMETHING YOU WILL BE USING TO GUIDE EVERY STEP OF EVERY DAY, BUT IF IT’S YOUR SPARE TIRE, YOU ONLY PULL IT OUT OF YOUR SPIRITUAL TRUNK IN TIMES OF EMERGENCIES.
TO HAVE A STRONG LIFE OF FAITH, GOING TO THE SPIRITUAL TRUNK FOR EMERGENCIES JUST WON’T DO.
THAT’S WHY JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF SAID, “MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY.”
THAT WORD “ALWAYS” TELLS US THERE IS NEVER A TIME WHEN IT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA TO PRAY.
PRAYER IN AN APPROPRIATE ACTION FOR THE CHRISTIAN TO TAKE AT ALL TIMES, OR ALWAYS.
THE APOSTLE PAUL TAUGHT, “BE CAREFUL FOR NOTHING; BUT IN EVERY THING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION WITH THANKSGIVING LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN UNTO GOD,” (PHILIPPIANS 4:6; EMPHASIS MINE). SIMPLY PUT, AND AGREEING WITH OUR LORD, PRAYER IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD ALWAYS DO, AND IT IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA.
PRAYER WILL ALSO HELP US TO “NOT LOSE HEART.” PRAY, AND DON’T GIVE UP. PRAY, AND DON’T LET THE TEMPORARY OF THIS LIFE GET THE BEST OF YOU. VICTORY IS AHEAD FOR THE ONES DON’T LOSE HEART.”
THE WORD “LOSE HEART” OR AS THE KJV SAYS IT “FAINT’ SPEAKS OF WEARINESS TO THE POINT THAT IT WEARS YOU OUT AND YOU WANT TO LET IT GO.
BUT, FOR JESUS’ DISCIPLES, THERE WOULD BE NO ROOM IN THEIR NEW MISSION FOR WEAK-WILLED, FAINTHEARTED WORKERS.
THE GOSPEL WAS THE MISSION, AND SOULS WOULD BE THE TARGET OF THAT MISSION.
LIFE AND DEATH WOULD HANG IN THE BALANCE OF THOSE WHO RECEIVED THE WORDS THESE MEN OF GOD WOULD SOON PROCLAIM AND SPREAD TO ALL REGIONS OF THE WORLD. THEY HAD TO BE STRONG.
PRAYER WOULD HELP KEEP THEM STRONG; IT WOULD HELP KEEP THEM GROUNDED AND TIED TO THEIR SAVIOR IN HIS ABSENCE. PRAYER CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE TO A LIFE WELL-LIVED FOR GOD, OR NOT.
MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS…..FOREGOING A PERSISTENT PRAYER LIFE IS NOT AN OPTION. THEREFORE, JESUS SAID, “MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, AND NOT LOSE HEART.” NEVER GIVE UP ON PRAYER!
THEN, AS IN OTHER PARABLES, JESUS GIVES THEM A STORY OF HOW THIS MAY LOOK IN THEIR REAL, EVERYDAY LIVES; AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO ACT OUT THE PRINCIPLE OF PRAYER THAT JESUS IS TEACHING.
THIS IS A SIGN OF A GOOD TEACHER, OF WHICH WE KNOW JESUS IS. HE DOESN’T JUST TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO, HE SHOWS THEM HOW TO DO IT.
LET US LOOK AT THE CHARACTERS IN OUR PARABLE TODAY….
JESUS OPENS HIS STORY TALKING ABOUT A “JUDGE” WHO DWELLS IN A CERTAIN “CITY.” THIS JUDGE IS LATER IDENTIFIED BY JESUS AS BEING “UNJUST” (SEE VERSE 6). THAT’S VERY IMPORTANT……THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT IS JUST AND WHAT IS UNJUST, AND COMPARING THAT TO THE ONE WHO IS TRULY JUST, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
UNJUST MEANS HE WASN’T RIGHT. IN OTHER WORDS, HE WAS CROOKED…. TO PROVE THAT, JESUS EVEN STATED OF THIS MAN HE “I DO NOT FEAR GOD NOR REGARD MAN.” HE HAD AN, “I DON’T CARE” ATTITUDE.
HE DID WHAT BENEFITED HIM, AND MOST LIKELY, HIS OWN POCKETS. A JUDGE OF ANY PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY GOD’S PEOPLE, IS SUPPOSED TO OPERATE WITH THE RULE OF JUSTICE AS HIS MEASURING ROD.
HE OR SHE IS TO UPHOLD ALL THAT IS TRUE AND RIGHT. THEY ARE TO BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL IN THEIR DECISIONS. THIS WAS NOT THE CASE HERE.
MANY SUPPOSE THIS MAN WAS NOT OF JEWISH DESCENT BECAUSE HE DOES NOT HAVE THE FEAR OF GOD IN HIM, WHICH MEANS HE DOESN’T RESPECT GOD.
WHETHER HE WAS A JEW OR A GENTILE, HE WAS IN A POSITION TO HELP AND TO JUDGE FAIRLY THOSE WHO SEEK HIS ASSISTANCE. BUT, AS WE FIND OUT, THIS IS NOT WHAT HE IS IN THE HABIT OF DOING.
THE NEXT CHARACTER IN THIS PARABLE IS A “WIDOW.” WIDOWS GOT A ROUGH DEAL IN THOSE DAYS AND WITHOUT A HUSBAND OR CHILDREN TO CARE FOR THEM ….AND THEIR SITUATIONS COULD TURN DISASTROUS QUICKLY. THEY COULD BECOME PREY FOR THOSE WHO WOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM.
GODS WORD SPEAKS AGAINST THOSE WHO MISTREAT WIDOWS
DEUTERONOMY 27:19 DECLARES, ‘CURSED BE ANYONE WHO DEPRIVES THE ALIEN, THE ORPHAN, AND THE WIDOW OF JUSTICE.”
THIS “WIDOW” CAME SEEKING JUSTICE. SHE CAME BECAUSE SHE HAD A CASE AND…., TO SAY THAT THINGS WEREN’T GOING RIGHT, IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.
SHE HAD AN “ADVERSARY” TO DEAL WITH AND UNLESS SHE WAS “AVENGED;” UNLESS SOMEONE LIKE THIS JUDGE WOULD PAY ATTENTION TO HER NEEDS AND STAND UP FOR HER CAUSE, SHE WOULD MOST LIKELY GO RECEIVE UNFAIR TREATMENT.
SHE HAD NO WHERE ELSE TO GO, AND SO, SHE WASN’T GOING ANYWHERE. SHE REFUSED TO ACCEPT THINGS AS THEY WERE.
SHE HAD AN ALWAYS ATTITUDE AND DIDN’T LOSE HEART
LUKE 18:4-5 “AND HE WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE; BUT AFTERWARD HE SAID WITHIN HIMSELF, 'THOUGH I DO NOT FEAR GOD NOR REGARD MAN, 5 'YET BECAUSE THIS WIDOW TROUBLES ME I WILL AVENGE HER, LEST BY HER CONTINUAL COMING SHE WEARY ME.'
“FOR A WHILE” THE JUDGE REFUSED HER OR TURNED AWAY FROM ANY FAIR JUDGEMENT SHE WAS SEARCHING FOR.
“FOR A WHILE” HE IGNORED HER PLEAS AND HER DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES. “FOR A WHILE” HE “WOULD NOT” DO ANYTHING FOR HER TO BRING HER CASE TO A SATISFACTORY CONCLUSION.
BUT, THEN THERE CAME A TIME WHEN HE WAS READY TO MOVE ON HER BEHALF.
THERE WAS AN “AFTERWARD” MOMENT OF REVELATION FOR THIS JUDGE. AFTER HE SAW HER STAMINA IN HER “CONTINUAL COMING.”
AFTER HE SAW THAT TENACIOUS SPIRIT IN HER THAT REFUSED TO LET HER ACCEPT ANYTHING LESS THAN WHAT SHE DESERVES, “HE SAID WITHIN HIMSELF, 'THOUGH I DO NOT FEAR GOD NOR REGARD MAN, 5 'YET BECAUSE THIS WIDOW TROUBLES ME I WILL AVENGE HER, LEST BY HER CONTINUAL COMING SHE WEARY ME.”
BUT HIS CHANGE OF THINKING…DIDN’T HAPPEN….
BECAUSE SUDDENLY HE TURNED HIS LIFE OVER TO GOD OR GOT A SPIRITUAL REVELATION. THAT WASN’T IT.
NOT BECAUSE HE SUDDENLY DEVELOPED A WARM SPOT IN HIS HEART FOR THIS WOMAN. THAT WASN’T IT EITHER.
HIS STANCE IN BOTH OF THOSE SITUATIONS HAD NOT CHANGED. BUT, BECAUSE SHE WOULDN’T BE STOPPED, HE WAS GOING TO TAKE UP HER CASE AND MAKE SURE SHE RECEIVED JUSTICE AND POSSIBLY THOSE WHO HAD DONE HER WRONG WOULD BE PUNISHED
SHE WORE HIM OUT! SHE CAME AND INVADED HIS SPACE REPEATEDLY WITH HER PLEAS.
HOWEVER MANY TIMES IT TOOK, SHE WAS ALL IN. SHE CAME UNTIL HER REQUEST WAS HEARD, AND HER SITUATION WAS RESOLVED.
HOW MUCH MORE WILL GOD DO FOR HIS OWN WHO COME TO HIM?
LUKE 18:6-8 “THEN THE LORD SAID, "HEAR WHAT THE UNJUST JUDGE SAID. 7 "AND SHALL GOD NOT AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT WHO CRY OUT DAY AND NIGHT TO HIM, THOUGH HE BEARS LONG WITH THEM? 8 "I TELL YOU THAT HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY. NEVERTHELESS, WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMES, WILL HE REALLY FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH?"
GOD IS NOT AN UNJUST JUDGE, NOR CAN HE BE WORN OUT THROUGH OUR PRAYERS. THE POINT OF THIS STORY IS TO PERSIST IN PRAYER.
IF THE UNJUST JUDGE HEARD THE WOMAN AND SAW TO WAS AVENGE HER….
WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT GOD? IS NOT GOD SO MUCH MORE!
PSALM 91:15… HE SHALL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER HIM: I WILL BE WITH HIM IN TROUBLE; I WILL DELIVER HIM AND HONOUR HIM,”
THEREFORE, BE DILIGENT. NEVER LET ANYTHING HINDER YOUR PACE TOWARD THAT THRONE OF GRACE (HEBREWS 4:16),
KEEP COMING! KEEP GOING TO GOD! NEVER STOP LOOKING TO HIM AS YOUR SOURCE FOR EVERYTHING IN LIFE.
HANDLE EVERYTHING WITH PRAYER!
THE WIDOW REFUSED TO BE SILENCED, AND DON’T YOU BE SILENCED BY THOSE AROUND YOU OR YOUR CIRCUMSTANCE EITHER.
GOD HAS AN OPENED INVITATION FOR HIS PEOPLE.
GOD SHALL “AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT” IN THEIR TIME OF NEED, ACCORDING TO HIS PERFECT AND HOLY WILL, AND TIME.
THERE ARE DAYS NOW WHEN GOD’S PEOPLE ARE TREATED UNFAIRLY AND SEEM TO HAVE DRAWN THE SHORT END OF THE STICK.
IN THE LAST DAYS, THE HEAT WILL BE TURNED UP ALL THE MORE, BUT GOD IS NOT IGNORANT NOW OR THEN TO WHAT HIS PEOPLE FACE. HE WILL “AVENGE!” THEREFORE, KEEP PRAYING!
EVERY INJUSTICE WILL BE REPAID. EVERY WRONG ANYTHING DONE AGAINST US WILL BE TURNED IN THE FAVOR OF GOD’S PEOPLE WHO DON’T GIVE UP,
WHO KEEP GOING DESPITE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, WHO HOLD ON TO HIM AND SEEK HIM NO MATTER HOW HARD IT MAY BE SOMETIMES.
THOSE WHO PERSIST IN PRAYER WILL SEE A RIGHTEOUS END TO EVERYTHING THEY ARE FACING.
BUT, ONE MUST HOLD ON TO FAITH BECAUSE FAITH AND PERSISTENCE GO HAND IN HAND.
AND, FAITH IS WHAT JESUS IS QUESTIONING AT THE END OF THIS PARABLE. HE SAYS, GOD WILL DO HIS PART.
WHEN HIS PEOPLE “WHO CRY OUT DAY AND NIGHT TO HIM,” HE HEARS. NOT ONLY DOES HE HEAR, BUT HE WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
HE WILL “AVENGE” AND STAND FOR THE JUSTICE OF HIS OWN, AND HE WILL DO IT “SPEEDILY” WITHOUT HESITATION.
HE MAY NOT COME WHEN YOU WANT HIM, BUT AS THEY SAY, HE’S ALWAYS RIGHT ON TIME.
HE MAY “BEAR LONG” WITH PEOPLE BUT AT THE RIGHT MOMENT, HE WILL ANSWER PRAYER.
AS GOD IS PATIENT AND LONGSUFFERING AND WILL COME AT THE RIGHT TIME,
WE TOO ARE COMMANDED TO BE PATIENT, AND IN THAT PATIENCE, PERSIST. “BE PATIENT THEREFORE, BRETHREN, UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD.
JAMES 5:7-8 (NKJV) 7 THEREFORE BE PATIENT, BRETHREN, UNTIL THE COMING OF THE LORD. SEE [HOW] THE FARMER WAITS FOR THE PRECIOUS FRUIT OF THE EARTH, WAITING PATIENTLY FOR IT UNTIL IT RECEIVES THE EARLY AND LATTER RAIN. 8 YOU ALSO BE PATIENT. ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS, FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD IS AT HAND. (JAMES 5:7-8).
YES, IT WILL BE HARD SOMETIMES, BUT PERSIST. YES, IT WILL SEEM UNFAIR AT TIMES, BUT PERSEVERE.
YES, THERE WILL BE TIMES WHEN YOU WILL BE WRONGED, AND IT WILL HURT, BUT KEEP GOING AND KEEP COMING TO GOD TO SEEK EVERYTHING YOU NEED.
“NEVERTHELESS,” JESUS ASKED, “ WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMES, WILL HE REALLY FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH?”
EVENTS LEADING UP TO THAT COMING DAY WILL BE TIMES OF PERSECUTION… HOW WILL PEOPLE RESPOND? HOW WILL THE DISCIPLES AND US WHO ARE ATTACHED TO THE LORD THROUGH HIS BLOOD RESPOND?
“WILL HE FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH?”
THE WIDOW WOMAN WAS UNRELENTING IN HER PURSUIT OF JUSTICE.
ARE WE JUST AS UNRELENTING IN OUR FAITH? TRUE FAITH REQUIRES COMMITMENT, AND COMMITMENT REQUIRES ONE TO PERSIST AND NOT YIELD TO THE PRESSURES TO GIVE UP AND THROW IN THE TOWEL.
“WILL HE FIND FAITH AT 201 WAYNE STREETo ?”
OUR FAITH AND TRUST IN HIM IS THE KEY THAT UNLOCKS THE DOOR TO VICTORY.
“FOR WHATEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOMES THE WORLD. AND THIS IS THE VICTORY THAT HAS OVERCOME THE WORLD--OUR FAITH.” (1 JOHN 5:4).
AT THE SAME TIME, OUR FAITH AND TRUST IN HIM SHOULD STRENGTHEN OUR STANCE THAT WE WON’T BACK DOWN FROM THE FIGHT…..
THAT WE DON’T CAVE DUE TO PRESSURE, AND WE WON’T GIVE IN DESPITE THE PERSECUTIONS WE MAY FACE. WE WILL KEEP ON GOING! WE WILL KEEP ON PRAYING!
ONE DAY JESUS IS COMING BACK. UNTIL THEN, KEEP PRAYING AND DON’T GIVE UP!