Luke 18:7-8 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on earth?
Persistence in prayer. Is this a virtue or a sign of lack of faith? Some have taught that to ask God over and over for the same thing signifies a lack of faith as one feels he must continually remind God of his desire. Jesus teaches the opposite. He explains that the Father honors persistence. Persistence does not reveal faithlessness but the depth of the desire. When one prays for a want, soon he/she will cease when the prayer is not answered because another want will replace it. But when one prays for a real need, the prayer will not cease because the need remains. Instead of ceasing, the prayers will become more intense as the one seeking the Father has no where else to turn. This is when God blesses His children: when they humbly come to Him due to their helplessness. No, God doesn’t frown upon persistence in prayer. He blesses it.
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