Hold on, my friend

Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him and he will save us. (Isaiah 25:9 KJV)

What victories we’ve seen won by those who really know how to pray! Well,” you answer, “I pray, but things are not changed.” Give God time! We used to have an expression, “I’m going to pray through.” You used to hear that expression a great deal; it means importunity.

This isn’t just some little weak simpering sort of a coming to God and asking for something. This is an asking that has boldness behind it and importunity in it and a seeking and a knocking! This can be defined as a way of praying until you come to an assurance that God has heard you.

You can’t just utter a little prayer in a hurry and then complain that God doesn’t answer. Wait on the Lord. Give God a chance. Have you come to that place where you have prayed with such perseverance, with such importunity, such “holding on” in fervency, until there comes the assurance to your heart that the Lord has not turned away your prayer?

When you have a fixed determination like that, and you hold on, then the answer will come according to what God knows is best.  Hold on, my friend; victory is on the way. God says so, and He has promised to answer. “In due season ye shall reap if ye faint not”. [1]

Importunate prayer is a mighty movement of the soul toward God… it is the ability to hold on, press on, and wait. Restless desire, restful patience, and strength of grasp are all embraced in it. - Edward McKendree Bounds

[1] Anchor Importunity in Prayer