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#1,121: Don't Stop Praying

• Loren Hicks

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I believe God uses persistence in prayer to purge our desires.  God also uses persistence in prayer to mold, and transform our desires, to change how we pray and even what we are praying for so that we gradually come to pray closer to the heart of God’s will. 


Main Points:

1. In the story, Jesus is teaching his followers about the importance of persistent prayer. He says two things. First, we should always pray. Second, we should not give up. 

2. It's important to know that the point of the parable is not that if you pray and pray and pray, you’ll eventually wear God down, and he’ll give you what you want. The point of the story is that if an evil judge will respond to requests that are made, how much more would a loving Heavenly Father do? With this confidence in our hearts, we should always pray and not give up.

3. Let’s remember that persistence in prayer is for our benefit, not God’s.  If we always got exactly what we wanted the first time we asked, it's likely we would begin to treat God as our genie, only summoned forth to give us more wishes. But that is precisely what prayer calls into question: What do you really want?


Today’s Scripture Verses:

Luke 18:1 - “Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.”

1 Thessalonians 5:17 - “Pray continually.”


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