"When I have been in my fits of agonies of spirit, I have been strongly persuaded to leave off, and to seek the Lord no longer; but being made to understand what great sinners the Lord has had mercy upon, and how large his promises were still to sinners; and that it was not the whole, but the sick, not the righteous, but the sinner, not the full, but the empty, that he extended his grace and mercy unto--this made me, through the assistance of his Holy Spirit, to cleave to him, to hang upon him, and yet to cry, though for the present he made no answer." - John Bunyan on Prayer
Labor in prayer! Do not stop praying when it is diffictult and hard. We don't pray becasue we want the genie to answer, we pray because we have a deep longing for God and His will. Remember this as you pray. And remember that our ultimate hope in prayer is to get more of God, not more of his gifts. Let Him be central, not what we want answered. He is a jealous God who wants all of us, and may choose to be silent or not answer to reveal that we want certain prayer answered more than we want God himself.
Trust Him, rest in Him, and do not stop pursing Him in prayer.
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