Persistent in Prayer

     I used to have a prayer request. This is one special prayer that I had prayed for years. You may wonder what it is. Well I prayed for a car. I prayed for a car to drive to work, to be a able to become a blessing to people surrounding me by fetching them to work, to church and perhaps for movies.
     Well I just want to give thanks to God that He provides me a car. I was blessed with a new car which I had wanted so much ever since I started working. To be honest, I could not afford to buy a car with my current pay. I mean I can but it will be a bit burdensome. But our Lord Jesus provides. He provides me with ways that I could never dream I will get. As I said earlier, I could not really afford a car with my current pay. But He lead someone to provide me the necessary amount for the car. Lord Jesus uses him to tell me not to worry. To be honest, I am a low self esteem guy but I learn to be faithful in whatever things that I do. At times I believe in my prayer with conviction. Sometimes, I do not even believe in my own prayer.
     But nonetheless, He listens to my prayer. He listens and He answers. Well this prayer of wanting the car had been quite some time. I had been consistently praying for the car. Then one day, I stopped praying. I stopped because, I was just tired of listening to my own prayer and didn't receive anything. Out of sudden, this man, let's call him A. A approaches me and want to give me some money. He knows I wanted a car and I could not afford to buy it. He felt that Lord Jesus is leading him to give the money to me. The money is not much but more than enough for the down payment of the car. I do not have anything but out of sudden, our Lord Jesus gave something to me. I am so thankful to Lord Jesus for blessing me with the car. Now with the car, I can travel to work, church and other places for leisure. I am thankful that Lord Jesus remembers even a prayer which was prayed before years back and then stopped. He does not care even if that person lose faith when it comes to prayer, but He still answers prayer. He answers even though we may lose faith in Him.
      To be honest, keep on praying despite that you may lose faith in Him. I had to say He is just testing our faith in Him. If we were just to give up in prayer, we gain nothing. Regardless of what we are facing, let us not give up but persist in prayer. Do not let the devil win over us.
     Here's a Bible verse I would like to share with you concerning persisting in prayer.

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

18 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, ² saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. ³ Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ ⁴ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, ⁵ yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”

⁶ Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. ⁷ And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? ⁸ I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”

     I just want to share that despite me, somehow or rather loses faith in getting a car prayer, but Lord Jesus still answers. One things I do learn, despite us loses faith in anything, do not give up of our Lord Jesus Christ, no matter what. I believe that is what  matter most. You might lose faith in yourself but please do not lose faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. When you keep on believing in Him, He shall appear and show Himself to you and He shall bless you. So please do not give up. God bless. =)