Persevering In Prayer – E.M. Bounds

“Perseverance counts much with God, just as it does with man. If Elijah had ceased at his first petition, the heavens would scarcely have yielded their rain to his feeble praying. (See James 5:17-18) If Jacob had quit praying at decent bedtime, he would hardly have survived the next day’s meeting with Esau. If the Syrophenician woman had allowed her faith to faint by silence, humiliation, or rejection, or to stop midway in its struggles, her grief-stricken home would never have been brightened by the healing of her daughter. Pray and never faint, is the motto Christ gives us for praying. It is the test of our faith, and the more severe the trial and the longer the waiting, the more glorious the results.” ~ E.M. Bounds

“…men ought always to pray, and not to faint;” Luke 18:1