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Sermon Audio: Persistent Prayer
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 18:1-8
Duration: 23:03
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Luke-The Investigative Gospel
Persistent Prayer
Luke 18:1-8
Probably more than just a few of us actually have given up and stopped praying, maybe not altogether, but at least quit praying for certain things.
1. Don’t Give Up There Is Too Much At Stake.
Who among us has not felt like since our prayers are not being effective, we might as well just quit?
We are told up front that this judge does not care about God or about men.
2. Don’t Give Up When Circumstances Seem to Be Against You.
As hopeless as her situation must have seemed, she was persistent.
3. Don’t Give Up the Answer May Be Just Around the Corner.
The judge is finally moved to help her not out of sense of justice or compassion but one of self-preservation.
4. Don’t Give Up God is Working Out the Answer.
Unless we see that Jesus is pointing out contrasts, we will get the idea that God must be argued or bribed into answering our prayers.
5. Don’t Give Up Jesus Always Keeps His Promises.
Without faith, prayer becomes little more than a ritual that we perform and then stand in wonder “Does it really work?”
What we need to concern ourselves in not the Lord’s faithfulness, but rather our own!
We are really faced with a choice between:
Praying or losing heart,
Going on with God or Giving up on God.