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Wednesday... There is real power in annoyances.


Luke 18:1 (AMP), "Now Jesus was telling his disciples a parable to make a point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart."

Wednesday... There is real power in annoyances.

I call sickness annoyances. They come into my life to get my attention, to get me to do something. Now many would call them troubles. To me they are annoyances.


I go to see one doctor on a regular basis. I go because I have a problem in one area of my body. As a kid I had problems with sunburns and now I have problems with skin cancer and I found out this week that I need to have a small part of my face that needs to be taken off because it is cancerous. And this is not my first so I call it an annoyance but it does keep me going and seeing a skin doctor. Without these annoyances I probably wouldn't see a doctor.

Luke 18:1 (AMP) says, "Now Jesus was telling his disciples a parable to make a point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart." This parable was about a judge and this woman who kept coming to see him to get help from him.

Now verses 3-5 tells us, "There was a [desperate] widow in that city and she kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice and legal protection from my adversary.' For a time he would not; but later he said to himself, 'Even though I do not fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will give her justice and legal protection; otherwise by continuing she [will be an intolerable annoyance and she] will wear me out." And there is that word, annoyance.

Again, verse 1, "Now Jesus was telling his disciples a parable to make a point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart." And The Message Paraphrase says, "Jesus told them a story showing that it was necessary for them to pray consistently and never quit." In other words, being an annoyance can make a difference.

Have you ever thought that some of the annoyances in our life could be there to get us to go to God in prayer. They are there to make a difference in our life.

For sure skin cancer is an annoyance that gets my attention and I am doing something about it and yes, I also am praying about it.

Again, verse 1 in the New Living Translation says, "One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up." And verse 5, "but this woman is driving me crazy. I'm going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!"

Yes, there is real power in annoyance. "that at all times they ought to pray." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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