Faith & Trust
Pray without ceasing.
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.”
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
That there needed fidelity in those drynesses, or insensibilities and irksomenesses in prayer, by which GOD tries our love to Him; that then was the time for us to make good and effectual acts of resignation.
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Much time spent with God is the secret of all successful praying. Prayer which is felt as a mighty force is the mediate or immediate product of much time spent with God. Our short prayers owe their point and efficiency to the long ones that have preceded them.
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.”
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Importunity is of the essence of successful prayer.
If I have God for me, I am going to overcome.
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