Persistent in Prayer

It was also revealed in Luke 22:44 – “And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground”. Jesus was distraught, and He prayed with much intensity. This was no casual two-minute prayer, the prayer was mixed with intense emotion. The Lord persisted because He understood what was at stake. What He was praying about was beyond Himself; He was about to endure a separation from His Father. It was about the salvation of generations: past, present, and future. He was looking at eternity, for all those who had gone by, and those who were living at the time, and those who would ever come. So, He prayed and persisted in prayer. He also rebuked His disciples when he came back and found them sleeping, Matthew 26:40 – “And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour?”

This is what is required of us today; the stakes are much higher than ever. There is a fight for the souls of men, and we must agonize in prayer for their salvation. We must keep praying and interceding until the last soul that must be won is reached and brought into the Kingdom. We must also pray for ourselves that we keep standing in the faith and to put on the whole armor of God, that we may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil as written in Eph 6:11 – 18.

¹⁶ Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

James 5:16

Lord, give us the strength to pray always and not to faint. May the Spirit of Him who raised up Christ from the dead will dwell in us and give life to our mortal bodies. Amen.