This blog is about today’s devotion in the book Hearing from God Each Morning by Joyce Meyer.
This devotion talks about praying with respectful persistence to God. When Jacob wrestled with God, he said, “I will not let You go unless You declare a blessing upon me.” He knew it was God’s will to bless him, and he knew that he had to persist to receive this blessing, and because of his persistence, God blessed him.
That doesn’t mean, however, that everything we pray for persistently will happen. Only those things that are in God’s will are going to happen. When God gives us our “prayer assignments,” He wants us to pray for them persistently until they are answered.
I have felt God putting it on my heart to pray for a friend of mine, and I will not lose hope, even when it seems like this prayer will never be answered. Actually, that isn’t quite accurate. I know this prayer will be answered and it really isn’t that far out there of a thing to happen, but sometimes it is so frustratingly close to being answered… and then it doesn’t happen. But as I am persistent in my prayers, God will answer me. I praise Him for the prayers that have yet to be answered!
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