Tuesday September 17th, 2024
« However 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! »
1 Then Jesus told His disciples a parable to teach them that they should always pray and never become discouraged.
2 “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.
3 And there was a widow in that same town who kept coming to him and pleading for her rights, saying, ‘Help me against my opponent!’
4 For a long time the judge refused to act, but at last he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or respect people,
5 yet because of all the trouble this widow is giving me, I will see to it that she gets her rights. If I don’t, she will keep on coming and finally wear me out!’”
6 And the Lord continued, “Listen to what that corrupt judge said.
7 Now, will God not judge in favor of his own people who cry to him day and night for help? Will he be slow to help them?
8 I tell you, he will judge in their favor and do it quickly. But will the Son of Man find faith on earth when he comes?”
A few years ago, I told some Pastors that God answers all prayers.
Some of them were shocked and I could see it on their faces.
In the Redeemed Christian Church of God, when the Pastor in charge of a Parish cannot solve a problem, he escalates it to the Pastor in charge of the Area. If the problem continues to defy all solutions, it will continually be passed up the chain of command until it reaches the General Overseer.
Now, who does the General Overseer take the problem to? There is no one I can run to but Jesus Himself. I not only run to Him, I stay with Him in the place of prayer until the problem is solved. If you would pray persistently, soon your testimony would also be “God answers all prayers”.
« So far, you haven’t ask Me to do anything for you. Ask, using my Name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy »
Some people unknowingly stop praying just before their breakthrough.
Why do they stop?
Perhaps they think they are disturbing God.
Is it not God Himself who said we should ask that our joy may be full?
Is it not Jesus Himself who told the story of the widow and the wicked judge in today’s Bible reading?
Why then should stop praying when your prayer has not yet been answered ?
In my early years as a Minister, there were prayers made for many years before I saw answers.
I prayed for fifteen years so that I would be able to heal the sick by mere waving of the hand.
I did not stop praying after a few years, I persisted and received my answer.
What is that long-awaited desire of yours for which you have stopped praying? It is time to start praying again, that your joy may be full.
You may wonder why God can’t just answer you after praying once or twice.
Well, He is sovereign.
- He will choose when to answer you.
Also, some request do not yield results with ‘two-minute’ prayers. You have to press in the spirit to be able to shift such things in the physical.
Some other times, God may be using that situation to build your faith (1 Peter 1:7).
- Whatever the case may be, don’t get weary when you don’t receive an answer instantly; keep praying.
God promised in Matthew 7:7-8 that when you ask you will receive, when you seek you shall find and when knock, doors will be opened unto you.
Persist in prayer until He answers.
He is a prayer answering God.
Application – Don’t stop asking until your joy is full.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Edited by Naomie Joseph
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