Prayer Focus-Persistent Prayer

JOHN SHIRK – In the Year of Focus, we take a look at persistent prayer.

Jesus told a parable in Luke 18 to show His disciples that they should always pray and not give up.

There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God or cared what people thought. A widow from that town kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’

For some time, he refused. But finally, he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’

Jesus calls us to consider that if an unjust judge will grant justice for a persistent widow, then surely God will bring about justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night. He will see that they get justice, and quickly.

Persistent Prayer is worth examining for a faith-focused life.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com