Magnificent Prayer #281
Magnificent Prayer #281
Night and day we pray most earnestly…
1 Thessalonians 3:10
Why is it that God does not give to us the very first time we ask Him, the things that we ask of Him? The answer is plain: God would do more for us, and better for us, than to merely give us that thing. He would do us the far greater good of training us into persistent faith.
The things that we get by our other forms of effort than prayer to God, do not always become ours the first time we make an effort to get them. For our own good God compels us to be persistent in our effort, and just so God does not always give us what we ask in prayer the first time we pray.
Just as He would train us to be strong men and women along the other lines of effort, so also He would train us to be and make us to be strong men and women of prayer by compelling us to pray hard for the best things. He compels us to “Pray through.”
R. A. TORREY
Pray About It: Prayer builds our faith. If God dispensed answers the first time we prayed, where would faith come in? His seeming delay to answering our prayers requires us to remain faithful. He would have us be strong.
The less I pray, the harder it gets. The more I pray, the better it goes.
MARTIN LUTHER
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