Delay is not denial so keep praying. Prayer prompted by The Holy Spirit is powerful.
Read Luke 18:1-8
One of most people’s biggest struggles is with unanswered prayers. Maybe you can relate. You ask God to rescue a friend from addiction, to grant salvation to a loved one, to heal a sick child, to mend a relationship. All these things you think must be God’s will. For years you pray. But you hear nothing back from Him and you see no results.
You remind the Lord that He’s powerful. That your request is a good thing. You plead. You wait. You doubt - maybe He doesn’t hear you or maybe He isn’t so powerful after all. You quit asking - for days or months. You feel guilty about doubting. You remember that God wants you to take your needs to Him and tell Him your requests again.
We may sometimes feel we’re like the persistent widow in Jesus’ parable recorded in Luke 18. She keeps coming to the judge, badgering him and trying to wear him down so he’ll give in. But we know that God is kinder and more powerful than the judge in the parable. We trust Him for He is good and wise and sovereign. We remember that Jesus said we “always ought to pray and not lose heart” (vs 1).
So we ask Him. “Summon Your power, O God; show us Your strength, O God, as You have done before” (Psalm 68:28) And then we trust Him … and wait.
Prayer:
¥ Pray for the people involved in Beach Missions over the Christmas holidays.
¥ Pray that God will give them His grace and strength in all situations that may occur.
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