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Friday... So, let's never give up. Never!


Friday... So, let's never give up. Never!

I was suppose to be in Denver today and I wouldn't have written a blog but through complications I am still in Las Vegas and here I am writing this blog. So, maybe someone needs this. Things don't just happen in a relationship with God. He may not cause them but he uses circumstances. So we need to always be searching for want he wants to teach us each day.

Look at this first verse in Luke 18 (CEV). It says, "Jesus told his disciples a story about how they should keep on praying and never give up." And for some that may be all that God wants to say to you. Your situation is going on and on and you have prayed and prayed and you are about to on this Friday give up. But listen, perseverance has its reward especially when God is in our life.


Now this story is about a judge and a widow who is trying to get justice from this unjust judge and he doesn't give her what she wants but she keeps after him and he in his frustration gives her what she wants because of her perseverance. She didn't give up, she kept at it until she got what she wanted. Now that's the story.

Verses 4 & 5 (CEV) says, "For a while the judge refused to do anything. Finally, he said to himself. 'Even though I don't fear God or care about people, I will help this widow because she keeps on bothering me. If I don't help her, she will wear me out.'"

Sometimes it seems in what we feel we need we just aren't serious about it. If we don't get what we want, we quit praying but verses 6-8 (NLT) says, "Then the Lord said, 'Learn a lesson from this unjust judge, Even he rendered a just decision in the end. So don't you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?'"

It seems that persistence and faith goes together. 

Here are some key words. Verse 1 (CEV), " keep on praying." "never give up." Verse 3 (NLT), "came to him repeatedly." Verse 5, (CEV), "keeps bothering me." (NLT), "constant requests.". Verse  7, "who cry out to him day and night." And then verse 8, "who have faith."

So, how serious are we at what we are praying to God for? So let's never give up. Never? Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

 




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