Don’t Give Up – Keep Praying
Luke 18
The most dangerous thing believers can do is to .
What Jesus about my relationship to :
1. I will grow at times.
📖 Luke 18:1 ESV And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray…
2. I will get regularly.
📖 Luke 18:1 ESV They ought always to pray and not lose heart.
3. I will face seemingly conditions.
📖 Luke 18:2 ESV He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.”
4. I will feel in myself.
📖 Luke 18:3 ESV And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
📖 1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
5. I will be from my .
📖 Luke 18:4 ESV For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man…’
📖 Luke 18:8 ESV I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily.
6. I will when I through prayer.
📖 Luke 18:5 ESV Yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.
Three reasons I should :
A. I’m one.
📖 Luke 18:7 ESV And will not God give justice to his elect…
📖 Romans 8:33 ESV Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
📖 2 Timothy 2:10 ESV Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
B. My are heard.
📖 Luke 18:7 ESV And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
📖 James 5:16 NKJV The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
C. always gets God’s .
📖 Luke 18:8 ESV “I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
📖 Hebrews 11:6 ESV And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Don’t Give Up :
The persistent of God’s ones will be and .
