…PRAYER OF IMPORTUNITY (LUKE 18:1-8)
By Ladi Ayodeji
Prayer of importunity is the ideal prayer for anyone who can’t accept NO for an answer in certain unusual circumstances. When one is desperate, this is the prayer to pray. You stand your ground until God hears you. When you are faced with a life or death situation, you just have to stand firm in faith and throw yourself unto God until He does His work. That is what Jesus is saying in Luke 18: 1-8.
What a parable! Jesus gave us a precious secret here about prayer: we are never to give up even when it seems obvious that nothing is happening.
Jesus Himself never gave up, even in the face of storms. Prayer of importunity is all about persistence, fervency and stubborn faith even when you are at a dead end.
When you are in a struggle, it’s logical that someone must become tired or weary. In this parable, it was the wicked and unrighteous judge that got tired. Jesus used this parable to stir our faith. He’s not saying that God is unrighteous or wicked. We are to pray continually, day and night, until we get an answer, just as the judge answered the woman because of her faith; God does the same.
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