Check Your Understanding

In 1 Kings 18:1, God promises to send rain on the land. But in verses 41–44 of that chapter, Elijah bows and prays for rain. Why would he do this?

Because he didn’t trust God to keep His promise
Because he understood that his persevering in prayer was an important part of the fulfillment of the promise
Because he didn’t have enough faith to believe God’s promise would be fulfilled
Because he was discouraged and needed to be with God

According to C.S. Lewis, when we pray with faith and certainty as we persist in prayer, we pray:

As God’s children
As God’s fellow workers
As God’s elect
As God’s hopeful ones

According to Charles Spurgeon, what is one of the best ways to be assured of an answer when we pray?

Pray as humbly as we possibly can.
Ask someone who is really close to God to ask for you.
Pray God’s promises.
Pray without any expectation.

George Mueller prayed for the salvation of five men over the course of:

Nine months
Fifty years
Three years
Forty days

Helmut Thielicke wrote about Jesus’ parable of the unjust judge and persistence in prayer, “This is not at all a sign of a lack of respect, but rather . . .

A sign that we don’t really know what to ask for."
A sign that good things come to those who wait."
A sign that praying works more often than not."
A sign that we are taking Him and His promises seriously."

When Jesus tells us to ask, seek, and knock in Luke 11:9, what is the grammatical sense of those words in the original language?

A one-time action in that present moment
An optional suggestion that you can "take or leave"
A command that indicates perpetual action
A command meant for people with "the gift of prayer"

In Luke 18:1, Jesus tells His disciples the parable of the persistent widow to show them that they should do what?

"Always pray and not give up."
"Pray when the Spirit moves them."
"Only pray if they feel like it."
"Pray if they are facing injustice."

What does Jesus tell the woman who persists in asking in Matthew 15:28?

"Woman, you’re bothering me!"
"Woman, you should only ask me once and believe!"
"Woman, you have great faith!"
"Woman, you don’t know what you’re asking!"

Oswald Chambers said, “The majority of us know nothing about waiting . . .

We don’t wait; we get distracted."
We don’t wait; we endure."
We don’t wait; and we forget to pray."
We don’t wait; we hope."

When we are praying about something for an extended period of time, instead of waiting for God, we need to:

Wait with God
Stop asking for awhile and just trust
Wait on God
Distract ourselves and pray about something else

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