Daily Reading: Romans 12:9-12
Big Idea This Week:
When in doubt, keep showing up
Questions to think about:
Similar to Zechariah and Elizabeth, it can be extremely hard to keep praying for something when we see zero results. I picture the two of them, fresh into their marriage, praying that God would bless them with children someday. I imagine their prayers became more intense as the years rolled by and the answer to their prayers appeared to be no. Hope started to vanish more and more each day. At their age, it just didn’t look like that would happen. But then one day, when they were well along in years, an angel came to tell Zechariah that God had heard his prayer. Elizabeth would have a baby. Imagine that! Prayers from all of those years earlier still continued to echo around God’s throne. This is great encouragement for any of us who may be thinking God hasn’t heard our prayers in the past. Even if we think the answer has been a definite no, it might instead be “Not yet …” or “Not in the way you expect …”
Will you keep praying even when all hope seems lost? You may be closer than you think?
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