Luke 18:1-8 (New Living Translation)
*18:1 One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. 2 “There was a judge in a certain city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people. 3 A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, saying, ‘Give me justice in this dispute with my enemy.’ 4 The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people, 5 but this woman is driving me crazy. I’m going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!’”*
6 Then the Lord said, “Learn a lesson from this unjust judge. 7 Even he rendered a just decision in the end. So don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man[a] returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?”
I. Types of prayer (v. 1)
• The desire of Jesus is for Christians to
• Prayer is
• Healthy prayer is not
II. Pray for justice (vv. 2-3)
• Prayer is the
• Prayer has the
• Prayer is how we download the
III. Pray for the lost (vv. 4-6)
• A person’s beliefs will not be changed by
• Prayer increases the percent of
• Prayer increases the percent of
IV. Pray with faith (vv. 7-8)
• God is a just Judge whose hand and heart is moved by
• Christians need to demonstrate
• Ceaseless prayer is
• Ceaseless prayer is talk as you
• Ceaseless prayer is daily