Persistent Child
27/07/10

For we are the Sons/Daughters of God, through our faith in Christ Jesus.

Luke 18:1-8
Parable of the Persistent Widow
1 One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. 2 “There was a judge in a certain city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people. 3 A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, saying, ‘Give me justice in this dispute with my enemy.’ 4 The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people, 5 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!’”

6 Then the Lord said, “Learn a lesson from this unjust judge. 7 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? 8 I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man[a] returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?”

I am so surprised to find out that allot of Christians fail to go on their knee's daily to pray to God and let him know our needs and worries’. The passage above shows that even a wicked-judge was forced to be a (for a while) good man due to a persistent widow (demands) that had no body to help her get justice, We (Saved-Christians) are more worthy and better than the widow; for we have a savior who died for us on the cross of Calvary and also we have a Righteous and Just Judge who is the Father of our savior and Lord Jesus Christ, who is ever willing and faithful to listen to our request and supplication, when we go to Him in prayers.

I sit and I wonder why allot of believers post prayer request on different site, groups and to men/women of God for prayers and what hurts me most is that most of the request are curative request and not preventive; what do I mean by Curative-request? That means, when disaster has struck or illness, lost job/homes, failed relationship/marriage, financially bankruptcy etc. Then we start posting prayer request asking for prayers and emergency miracle and divine touch from God. Prayer is like a heavenly bank account we have and the more we deposit our request to God and supplication the more we Assured of future spiritual security over our life, finance’s, relationship/marriage, family etc. On the day of trouble the Prayer is divinely activated by God to work for us. We then need to always offer a Preventive prayer-request to God always, it helps fight against our present and also divinely secure our future…so that on the day of trouble, that prayer will be our Heavenly Bank reserve to stand for us. Our God is not a magician that when we fail to pray to Him; always Thanking Him for the present provision , future provision (out of Faith), then when we have problem’s we start jumping from one group to the next page and to men/women of God for a Digital-Supersonic Prayers. I am not against people that ask for prayer’s but am here to remind you that you had and still have the power to prevent calamities, shame, tears, humiliation, sadness and lack in your life, when you know how to always Thank God beforehand and always praying to Him for things you need even months/years ahead. Even Christ Jesus that was God in human form always prayed to His Father in Heaven…daily so He can accomplish His mission on earth. He prayed in advance and was persistent, so that His Father in Heaven will be with Him till His Testimony on the Cross of Calvary.

The Word of God say’s “What so ever you ask in my name (Jesus Christ) ye shall receive”. We should learn to always pray to God and never relent; thinking He doesn’t hear us, He does! But we must be persistent as the Widow and God will surely see that yes! We are indeed persistent and we need what we really ask-for. Sometimes when we don’t hear from God, we can just start singing/praising God believing we have received by so doing we have taking our faith to another level and it will help activate our prayer-request faster.
Always pray ahead of time, for things you need in future and always thank Him for what He has already giving you .Be persistent and Jehovah-Jireh (Our Greatest Provider) will surely grant you, what you ask-for and also protect, heal, favor, bless, add ,open, close what so ever you have asked for.
Make sure your heart is right with God and always go before Him with confidence and faith and you shall receive in Jesus name.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. Jn 15:7

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