Pray, Pray And Pray Some More

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Deer in the middle of the night.
(photo J Hyde)

Just got done with my weekly Bible Guys meeting and we covered the parable in Luke 11 v 5-13. It’s a story about a guy who has unexpected company in the middle of the night and he is unprepared. He has no bread to feed them. So he goes down the street to a friend’s and bangs on his door. He finally wakes his friend up and pleads his case, he needs some bread! The guy in bed puts him off numerous times with his own excuses. The needy guy persists and wakes up the neighbors with his pounding. Finally the rich guy gets up and opens the door and hands the poor guy three loaves.

It is a parable or a story to illustrate a point. We are supposed to get that persistence furthers. That we need to keep at it with our petitions. We cannot quit too early. It is not that God is a lazy guy but He maybe preparing us in some unseen way perhaps. Probably there is something we don’t understand in the mix.

Anyway, it has inspired me to pray on in my life. And not only for myself but for others. To be persistent is the idea, the plan.

wake the neighbors love, Felipé.

6 thoughts on “Pray, Pray And Pray Some More”

    1. Sherie ~ today’s class meant a lot to me. It brought some things into focus. Thanks for being here. Felipé.x

  2. You have captured this story, scenario, very well and I am in agreement about persistence in prayer. So much life in prayer, so much relationship. Bread prayers, michelle

    1. Michelle ~ I am really pumped up now after our class yesterday. Thanks for being with us. Bless you, Felipé.x

  3. Creation, it seems to me, is based on persistence -repeating behaviors to achieve ends – like breathing for example. Could we have been designed to just get that one breath of life from the creator and go on for a hundred years or so? Sure. But we have been designed to repeat that behavior reminding us of the initial breath. As my yoga teacher says every time, ‘Keep breathing…’

    And in pilgrimage, ‘just keep walking’ is something we are reminded of frequently. Persistence gets us there in a grateful way.

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