Have you ever heard someone talk about wasting God’s time? Or maybe you’ve heard them say, “I’m not going to pray about that—I don’t want to bother God.” You wouldn’t want to pester God, right?
Wrong. God is NEVER bothered by our prayers. He has an infinite mind—and infinite time. Thus, His attention for you has NO LIMITS. You will never waste His time. He will never consider your prayers a bother. In fact, He encourages us to “pester” Him with prayer:
“Tirelessly PESTER God—give Him no rest—until He blesses Jerusalem….” Isaiah 62:7. Other translations say, ‘Give no silence to Him,’ and “Do not give Him rest.” And remember—this is God speaking. This is God Himself teaching us how He WANTS us to pray. Pray until it BOTHERS GOD. Go ahead and PESTER HIM. Jesus underlined this idea when He told “the Parable of The Unjust Judge” (also called “the Parable of the Persistent Widow”):
“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about man. And a widow in that town kept coming to him, pleading ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’ For a while the judge was unwilling. But finally the judge said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what men think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, lest by continuously coming she wear me out!’ And Jesus said, ‘Listen to the unrighteous judge. Will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones who cry out to Him day and night? I tell you, He will see that they get justice quickly!” Luke 18:2-8.
We don’t pray enough. We just don’t.
God, remind us to pray more, to pray with PERSISTENCE. To pray until we wear You out!
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