Hi everyone,today we’ll be talking about the power of persistence. First,what is persistence?

Persistence is the fact or act of continuing in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. Truth is,sometimes when you are trying to persist to get something from someone it can get really annoying and the person may give what it is you are asking for just to make you go away and stop disturbing.

So what does the scripture say about persistence? Let’s take a look…

The book of Luke chapter 18 gives the story of a woman who constantly went to a judge to grant her justice, the Judge decided to grant her justice not because he is a good person but just because he wanted to “get off her back”*that’s how the passion translation puts it ) he would answer her so she could leave him alone.

God will give swift justice to those who don’t give up. So be ever praying, ever expecting, just like the widow was with the judge. Yet when the Son of Man comes back, will he find this kind of persistent faithfulness in his people?”
Luke 18:8 TPT

A lot of people pray,really they do, but there is a kind of prayer called persistent prayer in which you keep praying until you see answers. Some people call it PUSH(pray until something happens). You don’t stop praying,you keep on praying, you don’t give up on prayers until you see what you desire manifest physically.

I know sometimes one may say that once you pray once,God has heard you and you don’t need to keep on repeating the same thing,even though that may be true, persisting in prayers doesn’t just mean repeating the same words, no, it goes beyond that; it is expecting to see answers to your prayers manifest and not giving up,until you see them happen. I truly believe there is a place of persistence in prayers.

Let’s look at Matthew 7:7 TPT

For every persistent one will get what he asks for. Every persistent seeker will discover what he longs for. And everyone who knocks persistently will one day find an open door.

Persisting in prayers is not begging God to do something for us,it is rather believing that as believers the scriptures are true, God is good and therefore He will answer us if we do not give up. I want to quickly clarify something here, I’m not talking about persisting in praying for something outside of God’s will. What we’re talking about here is praying persistently in accordance to God’s will for a particular thing to happen. For example, let’s be practical here, perhaps a couple has been believing God for the fruit of the womb for several years,( it is definitely God’s will for every child of God to be fruitful and replenish the earth(Genesis 9:7), we have a scripture to show that this is what God is saying to us, this is God’s perfect will, )the couple should CONTINUE/PERSEVERE in prayers until they get pregnant and have a baby. This is what persistence in prayers is all about.

Persisting in prayers means not giving up, it is having Faith which is your evidence and continuing proclaiming the word of God concerning that situation until you see it happen. Often times, you will know in your heart that God has answered a prayer, you will often have peace concerning that thing and at that moment even if you have not seen the answers with your physical eyes, you can begin praising God and pray concerning something else as God will lead you, it’s called a NOTE OF VICTORY in your Spirit. So in a nutshell, keep praying for that thing until you receive a note of victory in your Spirit man, that it is done, then switch to Praise!

I just want to encourage you reading this post, I’m certain this is not the first time you have heard about this, but Please do something about what you have learnt here today; and the next time you feel weary and want to give up on trusting God and praying for a particular thing, remember God is looking at your heart to see if you will persist or if you will easily faint.

Don’t give up beloved, keep praying, keep believing God, keep meditating on the scriptures , keep obeying God, keep doing good, because AT THE PROPER TIME YOU WILL REAP A HARVEST IF YOU DO NOT GIVE UP.

Till next time,

Remain Blessed.