I am persistent not hard-headed

Believe it or not someone accused me the other day of being hard-headed. “You are mistaken my friend”, I exclaimed. “What you believe to be hard-headedness is simply persistence and determination”. We happened to be fishing and had not yet caught our desired allotment of fish. I insisted that we hold fast and remain and we remained and sure enough we caught an abundance of fish by exhibiting a little persistence and waiting for the bite’ to begin.

Too often people give up and quit too early in the game. This is particularly true about prayer. The Bible has much to say about prayer and it is interesting to research it if you have a little time on your hands. We are taught over and over again that we should be persistent’ with prayer. Jesus gave a parable comparing the way we should approach prayer to someone who went to a neighbor’s house at midnight to borrow three loaves of bread. The neighbor had already closed down for the night and everyone was in bed. At first the person told them to go away, but the persistent banging on the door was too much. The Bible stated that the person kept banging on the door until eventually the person got up and gave the loaves of bread, not because they were a friend, (and they were friends), but it was the persistent knocking’ that finally resulted in their getting up and giving them the three loaves of bread.

I do not have a clue as to why God instructs us to be persistent in prayer. He is a good Father and is endowed with unimaginable intellect whereby He already knows what we need before we even ask for it, but He wants us to ask. God likes for us to pray. I can tell you unequivocally too that God’s mind is often changed because of prayer and there are numerous examples of it throughout the Bible. One fascinating thing is that nothing is impossible for God and more than one miracle has resulted from prayer. So do not give up!

I don’t know what you need most in your life right now; however I urge you to consider your prayer life as a tool to seek God’s will and ask Him to supply your every need. Look prayer up in the back of the Bible and read every reference to it and try your best to pray as God instructs you to pray. Be persistent. Just because you do not have an answer in ten minutes or 24 hours does not mean the answer is no. Keep asking and keep seeking God’s will for your life and He will answer. Remember the parable about persistence that Jesus gave. Know too that the Holy Spirit who resides in every Christian prays for you too in such a manner and in a language with “utterances and groanings” that mere human cannot understand. Prayer is very important’ to God and consequently should be important to us. We are told to pray constantly about every matter no matter how seemingly inconsequential, imagine how much more so God desires to hear from you concerning large matters.

Do you know what you want? Start praying about it today!

Luke 11:9
“So I say to you, ask and it will
be given to you; seek and you will
find; knock and it will be opened “
to you.