Keep praying...

I’ve said before that I’m a terrible prayer. Just really bad at being consistent about it.

 

So I was happy with myself, that I’ve been able to sit down each night for the last two-plus months and pray for my two very specific prayer requests. I thought, finally, I’m tapping into the strength that God gives me, and I’m praying. Good.

 

And then I was reading a little something from George Mueller, and I was both intimidated and encouraged. And so I’ll share it with you.

 

“I am now, in 1864, waiting upon God for certain blessings, for which I have daily besought Him for 19 years and 6 months, without one day’s intermission. Still the full answer is not yet given concerning the conversion of certain individuals. In the meantime, I have received many thousands of answers to prayer. I have also prayed daily, without intermission, for the conversion of other individuals about ten years, for others six or seven years, for others four, three, and two years, for others about eighteen months; and still the answer is not yet granted, concerning these persons [whom I have prayed for nineteen-and-a-half years]. … Yet, I am daily continuing in prayer and expecting the answer. … Be encouraged, dear Christian reader, with fresh earnestness to give yourself to prayer, if you can only be sure that you ask for things which are for the glory of God.”

 

Fresh earnestness. Got it.