Why Keep Praying: When You Don’t See Results by Robert Morris

Author:Robert Morris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2015-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Keeping the Prayer Line Open

Do you remember why Jesus told His disciples the story of the persistent widow and the judge? Luke says he did it “to illustrate their need for constant prayer and to show them that they must keep praying until the answer comes” (Luke 18:1 TLB).

The Lord Himself was saying we need to pray very often—or almost all the time. Constantly. So why don’t we? If we’ve been given the greatest privilege in the universe, a wide-open door to come before the Creator and the King of kings with every detail and concern of our lives, what’s holding us back?

I think I know at least part of that answer. We often neglect to pray because we become discouraged and defeated over our failures and sins.

The author of Hebrews 12 levels a strong warning about this right in the middle of his encouragement to run a great race in life:

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. (v. 1)

Our whole life, be it long or short, is a race that we are called to run well—run to win, serving the Lord. But the only way we’ll be able to accomplish this, the writer tells us, is to “lay aside . . . the sin which so easily ensnares us.” The New Living Translation translates that phrase as, “the sin that so easily trips us up.”

Do you have a sin that easily ensnares you? Do you have a sin in your life that continually trips you up and causes you to stumble?

More to the point, do you have a sin that holds you back from the practice of constant prayer?

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