Persistent and Focused

The message at church Sunday morning convicted both Charlie and me. This was the passage that was read.

Luke 18
NIV

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”

6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

As Chris said, our prayers should have a focus... 1 focus. We should not give up or get distracted; we should strive to be persistent like the widow in from the Bible.

For Charlie and myself, we realized our prayer for a child has not been persistent and focused as it ought to be. After a discussion on the way home from church, we decided to lift our prayers to the Lord after supper (and when we come together if circumstances prevent us eating together) to pray specifically that we will be matched with our Little Leonard and for his/her birthparents.

As we've been on this journey to a Little Leonard for nearly 3 1/2 years, God is continually bringing things to our attention to grow us closer to Him. We are grateful that He continues to convict us and bring us closer to Him!