Lesson Summary

How often do we get discouraged after praying just a few times? And the reason why we get discouraged is we take the fact that nothing is happening in the moment to mean that God is saying “no,” when he isn’t saying “no” at all. Oswald Chambers observed, “The majority of us know nothing about waiting. We don’t wait, we endure. Waiting means that we go on in the perfect certainty of God’s goodness—no dumps or fear.” Elijah was able to go on praying because He knew what God had promised. But he didn’t take it for granted, he pursued it. And because God has made beautiful promises to us, we can persevere in prayer as well and anticipate good things from Him.