Monday, June 30, 2014

Persistent Faith- Prayer

'Faith has its province, in connection with prayer, and, of course, has its inseparable
association with importunity. But the latter quality drives the prayer to the believing
point. A persistent spirit brings a man to the place where faith takes hold, claims and
appropriates the blessing.'

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 35)

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Luk_21:19  In your patience possess ye your souls.

It takes patience to pray.

Eph_6:18  Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints

Faith takes hold...faith- believing. We should never pray unless we believe and if we lack belief we must pray for faith to believe. Truly, we must! It sounds contradictory, but it's the truth.  Sometimes you have to do the very thing you're unsure of doing, and in doing it you become sure.  Praying is necessary to a spiritual life. If you are God's you are spiritual. If you are spiritual your spirit feeds on prayer.  As babies first drink milk, not capable of chewing or swallowing solids, we have to drink the milk of prayer. That drink of prayer may be tentative and unsure, but if we continue to grow by continuing to drink we will move on to solid foods, we will move on to strength in our prayers. The faith we have to believe will come, we must never stop praying, always hoping, always believing.  Faith does have it's place in prayer, a place that makes prayer work.

Heb_11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Persistently praying, praying importunately from the heart, through sincerity of spirit is something we MUST do!

Believing, praying.  We must, we have to, we can't ever believe we have no need of prayer in our lives, not ever!  Not when our Savior placed such importance upon praying. It is clearly something we HAVE to practice, until it is a part of our life as much a part as breathing.

By HIS grace, HIS love!

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