Persevering Prayer — Basilea Schlink

The Power of Persevering Prayer

God lives and works today. However, if you haven't experienced God's power in your life, perhaps it's because you haven't experienced the power of persevering prayer. What is persevering prayer, and why is it more likely to be answered than other kinds of prayer?

Listen to today's meditation by Basilia Schlink.

Victory we'll share, if we but trust God whole, even I and all.

Constant Prayer and God's Promise

Be constant in prayer, calls the Apostle Paul to us. Our prayers should not be slack, for God's promise is given to prevailing prayer. The persevering prayer does not become weary, even when it sees no apparent fulfillment, but often the contrary.

Waiting, Humility, and Miraculous Answers

Persevering prayer has the ability to quietly persist and to wait. This is a humbling kind of prayer. It humbles one to have to wait, and to have to ask again and again, What is the reason that thou canst not answer my prayer?

Is there perhaps a sin barrier in my life? However, the outcome of persevering prayer is usually a truly miraculous answer from God. He manifests himself in such a way that his greatness and power are magnified before men.

Purification Through Persevering Prayer

Therefore, the persevering prayer also has his special promise. It allows great things to come to the petitioner, who is purified by such byways of waiting. With persevering prayer, God calls us to an effort, a struggle.

Wrestling With God for His Blessing

It's a real wrestling with God, as with Jacob at Jabbok. I will not let you go unless you bless me. Such prayer pleases God. Jesus says that God will answer such prayer. Here, however, it must be emphasized that God gives assurances and answers in such a prayer struggle, only if these prayers are uttered in Jesus' name, and are of his mind and his spirit.

Praying According to God's Will

Self-willed prayers have no promise of an answer. For such a wrestling in prayer, it's especially important that we take our stand on the promise and assurance which God has given, and then that we hold fast right to the end.

It is always his will that we come to him in steadfast prayer. Should it not, therefore, lie in our heart that we hold on steadfastly in prayer, so that God can be revealed in his mighty power and greatness?

Answering God's Love With Steadfast Prayer

Should we not answer his love that has so much patience with us? Shouldn't we answer it with trusting love, love that is steadfast in prayer?

This program by Basilia Schlink has come to you from the Little Land of Canaan. If you would like a free leaflet by the same author, please write to God Lives and Works Today, 9849 North 40th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85028 -4099.

That's God Lives and Works Today, 9849 North 40th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85028 -4099. That's God Lives and Works Today, 9849 North 40th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85028 -4099. God bless you.