Luke
11: 9
9 “And I tell you, ask,
and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be
opened to you.”
In the
11th chapter of Luke, Jesus teaches us on prayer.
You could call
verse 9, the pull, pester and plead prayer.
I’m amazed at the
number of people who really need prayer, but no longer pester God
anymore.
Jesus’ teaching on
prayer isn’t as much a, “how to”, prayer, but a “who to”, prayer.
I wonder how many
people knock insistently on God’s door, to the point of annoying Him?
I’d like to know
how many people just give up praying, when they don’t get their answer right
away?
Consider how Jesus
prayed to the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane?
Maybe if we prayed
like Jesus prayed, we’d see more results than we currently do.
Martin Luther said
this, about how we approach God in prayer:
“God would
encourage us to believe that He is truly our Father in order that we might
approach Him boldly!”
Seriously, how
boldly do you pray?
How often do you
pull, pester and plead with God?
Maybe if we
started approaching God as our dear Father, some of the mixed up things in our
lives would get fixed.
I’ve never once
met a person in the church, where they have ever confessed to praying too
much.
Why not try
pestering Him, starting this morning...
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