Within Reach of a Miracle

Hello fellow Living Proofers! I hope that you are all having a blessed week! And please feel free to send in prayer requests on this page.. Whatever it is, we will all gladly pray for you! :) Today I wanted to talk about persistence in prayer, and how when we are on our knees, we are "within reach" of a miracle. I got the idea for this topic from a song I just recently came by, "Something Beautiful" by NEEDTOBREATHE. In this song, the lyrics that stuck out to me the most are:

"Hey now, this is my desire

Consume me like a fire'

Cause I just want

Something beautiful to touch me

I know that I'm that I'm in reach'

Cause I am down on my knees

And waiting for

Something beautiful"

I thought that the way they worded it was quite interesting, because when we are down on our knees, praying to God, we are in a better position to receive blessings and miracles from God. Our Lord Himself taught about the importance of persistence, especially in prayer, in Luke 18:1-8:

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’

“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”

And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

How many times do we want something really really bad, pray about it, then just move on and never pray about it again? I know I do this all the time! It is important to bring all of requests to God, but it is also very important to continually do this.. daily!

The more you pray for something, the more you show God how important it is to you. So when God doesn't answer a prayer right away, it may not be because your request is unimportant to Him, it may be because it's not important enough to you!