Praying until something happens: persistent prayer

Don't stop praying in a difficult situation. God will answer.

Constant prayer
The late Dr. Arthur Caliandro, who served for many years as a pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, wrote: “So when life is knocking you out, react. When you have problems with your job and things are not going well, react. When the bills are high and the money is low, react. When people don't respond to you in the ways you hope and desire, you react. When people don't understand you, react. "What did he mean by react? Pray until something happens.

Too often our emotions interfere with how we react. We are discouraged by God's delayed response or the situation in which we find ourselves. When this happens, we begin to doubt that anything will result from our prayers probably causing us to stop praying for the situation. But we must remain strong and remember to overcome our feelings and be persistent in our prayers. As Dr. Caliandro wrote, "Prayer is a way of seeing things from the highest point of view".

The parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge in the Gospel underlines the importance of constant prayer and of not giving up. The judge, who neither feared God nor cared about what people thought, eventually succumbed to the persistent motives of the city's widow. If the unjust judge offered justice to the relentless widow, in due course our compassionate God will answer our constant prayers, even if the answer is not what we expected. Continue to react, to pray. Something will happen