A Call to Persistent Prayer - Paul M. Williams

Luke 18:1-8 Any true sportsman knows fully well that there's more to winning than merely turning up!  Turning up is the easy part; it's the parts that the cheering fans don't see that differentiates the winners from the losers.  Persistent and relentless discipline; those countless hours spent in training.  When those of their peers were free to do as they please—eating what they will and going where they would—the future champion in the making is not!  Burdened with a fervent passion to succeed, against all odds and at all costs, he pushes his natural man to limits, exacting from his mortal body seeming impossibilities so as to win the prize.  With the self-same analogy, the Church of Jesus Christ must everywhere be given, not only to prayer but persistent prayer!  If we would see the power of God in our day at work, let us give ourselves to this end and see what the Almighty will do!