#1369. Keep praying and don’t give up (21/10/25)

Welcome to this Come to Jesus Daily Devotional. This week, through this week of prayer, we’re taking a short break from Ephesians to think about The Power of Prayer.

Yesterday, we reflected on how mankind is created to live for God’s purpose and in an intimate - prayerful - relationship with Him as shown in God’s creating mankind in Genesis. However, due to sin, this design is challenged. 

Today, we reflect on why prayer is powerful and why should we be faithful in prayer?

You can listen to this devotional below

We all experience hunger and thirst. We all respond by eating and drinking. However, we all know that their healthy eating and drinking and non healthy options. We can reach for that chocolate bar, that can of fizzy, sugar-laden, drink… or we can choose the healthy approach. Likewise, we all have spiritual hunger and thirst and Christians are to reach for prayer and communion with God rather than just entertainment and distractions that are not true recreation. 

Prayer is a subject about which many of us would say that we are passionate, we know it’s vitally important, but few would say that they are praying as we, or Jesus, would want. 

Jesus as the perfect man was a man of prayer. He prayed a lot and taught on it; for example, to press home persisting in prayer He said, 

Paul picked this when he said,

Jesus set us the perfect example of prayer and commands us to follow His example of faithfulness and perseverance in prayer.

God is calling us to a deeper devotion in prayer. Everyone’s greatest need is that God break in and act! As Lloyd Jones challenges us, 

We all want to see various things change! We can worry, moan, scheme, and post things on social media… or we can, firstly, pray!

Why is prayer so important?

1. It’s important because Jesus modelled and commanded it

If for no other reason, we could simply say that it’s important because Jesus made it a priority and commanded us to follow Him - that’s reason enough. Let’s remind ourselves of our text:‘

2. It’s important because He is God and we are not!

Prayer is important because it’s an act of worship - prayer is an acknowledgement that God is God and we are not. We are weak but He is strong. We lack wisdom, He imparts it to our needs.

3. It’s important because it’s the essence of the Christian life

Prayer is also important because, as we saw yesterday in the purpose of mankind's creation - life is to be lived in communion with God. We don’t become Christians so we can live this life know that, when we die, we will go to heaven. We live this live in contact with heaven right now. We are to walk with God. Speak to God. Listen to God. Prayer is us actually enjoying the salvation that Jesus has purchased for us. Like the Psalmist, our relationship with God is to be real and sustaining:

Response

• Are we seeking to imitate and obey Jesus in regard to prayer?

• Have we ‘given up’? 

• Let’s give some consideration to how we might make space to pray in our day and how we might speak with God throughout the day - this is not a burden, this is our path to true peace and power!

Focus of prayer for today

This week, at CCP, is a week of prayer, today, our focus for prayer: 

• On this Tuesday of our week of prayer, let’s pray again for the things that we’ve been waiting for God to do - let’s be faith to keep ‘asking, seeking and knocking’. 

• Let’s persevere in supporting, through prayer,  Jem and Susie in their mission in Cyprus. 

• Our main focus of today is on healing - Let’s persevere in prayer for those you know who need God to heal them at present.