Jesus gave to us several promises concerning our prayer life and the guarantee of receiving those things for which we pray. Beginning at Luke Chapter 18 the Master explained a Parable to the Disciples illustrating this guarantee. The passage of our study this week reads as follows:
And he spoke a Parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not
to faint; Saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city;
and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though
I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says. And shall not God avenge His Own elect, who cry day and night unto Him, though
He bear long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall He find Faith
on the earth? (Luke 18:1-8)
This passage of Scripture and the understanding of its meaning is a very valuable treasure to our
spiritual lives. Let us examine what the Master told us. To begin, Luke told us what the subject matter of Jesus Parable
concerned – “that men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (ver 1). Prayer within itself, at times, may be wearying to the
flesh. The knowledge that we should pray may lie within us, but the exercise of this privilege may be difficult to begin and
maintain if we fail to understand the overwhelming, guaranteed results of its exercise. Even when Jesus was in the
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