Today we read from Luke 10:38-11:13 in the One Year Bible. Jesus teaches us about prayer. And if anyone can teach us how to pray, it's Him.
He gives us the Lord's Prayer. And then He teaches us to be persistent. Why, do you think, does God want us to persist in prayer? Why doesn't He just answer us the first time?
Well, there are many reasons. And many of them we'll probably never understand completely. His ways aren't our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts. But the little bit that we DO understand about how He works lets us know that we can trust Him completely with the parts that we don't understand at all.
But one big reason that God asks us to persist in prayer is that it teaches US something very important. It teaches us what is important to us. If we ask for a certain job, and we don't get it, and we stop asking for that and start asking for something else, then we know that that job wasn't very important to us. If we ask to marry a certain person, but then we lose interest in them and start praying that we marry someone else, we know that the first person wasn't that important to us. But if you pray for the same thing for days.... or weeks... or even years... then you know that's important to you. And when He answers you, it will fill your heart with joy.
Thank You, God, for teaching us what is important to us.
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Prayer is our communication with God. Just as a mother wants to hear from her children God wants to hear from us. A mother may not be able to fix it or help but needs to hear from her children. God can and will help and wants to hear from His creation.
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