Persevere in Prayer

Romans 12:12 calls us to remain steadfast in prayer. These words reach the person who has brought the same request to God many times and has begun to wonder whether continuing to pray will make any difference.

Delay can intensify anxiety and awaken the urge to control what happens. When the answer does not come as expected, silence may feel like abandonment. Jesus understood this weakness. In Luke 18:1, He taught His disciples that they should always pray and not lose heart.

We can persevere without constant strength or carefully arranged words. We can come before God with weary faith and admit that we no longer know how to wait. Prayer keeps that pain in His presence, where we can speak honestly.

God may also answer differently from what we imagined. During the waiting, He can reveal desires that have become tangled with our request and confront our need to control the outcome. The delay remains difficult. Through it, the heart can stay open to His will.

There may be something you have almost stopped praying about. Bring it before the Lord again. Tell Him honestly that you are afraid of disappointment, and remain in His presence. Perseverance begins when you choose to keep returning.

12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

1 ¶ And he spake a parable unto them [to this end], that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;