305 – Do your prayers need to be more persistent?

Have you ever been praying about something and just didn’t seem to be getting any answers?

You poured your heart and soul into praying and studying the Bible, but after a while, you just couldn’t see any progress or evidence of your prayers having any effect at all.

Maybe some of your friends even told you it was ridiculous to pray for whatever it was you were praying about. And so you gave up. 

Maybe you tried to convince yourself it just wasn’t God’s will for the thing you were praying about to happen. And frankly, sometimes that may be the case.

But sometimes we give up a little too soon in our prayers. Because we haven’t gotten an answer, or the answer we want, we quit asking God to heal us or for the solution to our problem. 

If you’ve even found yourself with those kinds of thoughts running through mind, this episode is for you. 

We’re going to look at several people in the Bible of people who were persistent and didn’t give up in searching for an answer, a solution to a problem, or a healing. 

• The woman in Proverbs, Chapter 31
• The Syrophoenician woman who asked Jesus to heal her daughter
• The woman in Jesus's parable who kept asking a judge for help 
• Blind Bartimaeus 
• We'll talk about how and why you can be persistent like they were

Paul says: "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."   Galatians 6:9  NIV

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