CHOOSE: FIVE FOR FRIDAY

Choosing 5 fave marginalia prayer quotes for my Friday focus. Often the source is not listed, so my apologies to all those folks not cited.

1. The purpose of prayer is NOT to change God, but to change us.
2. Puritans say, "Pray until you pray."
3. Talk to God about men before you talk to men about God.
4. During times of prayer, cultivate faithfulness, not feelings and sensations.
5. Praise is Christ's address. 

Today, I choose to heed the truth found in these tidbits written in the margins of my Ryrie NIV study Bible.

CHOOSE: TO KEEP KNOCKING

ASK. SEEK. KNOCK.

Three imperative verbs....as in a command implying "you." (unspoken second person, singular or plural)

Don't just do it once, Dotsy. 

(You) Keep on keeping on.

(You) Keep on Asking. 

(You) Keep on seeking. 

(You) Keep on knocking.

Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find; knock and the door will be open to you. (Matthew 7:7)

Even sample prayers can help when one desires a powerful prayer but  is wavering in persistence.
One of Susie Larsen's (Powerful Prayers p. 206) can be used to help one keep on knocking.

Precious Lord, here I am again lifting up my loved ones to you. Jesus, drew them near, by the power of your Holy spirit. Heal their deepest wounds. Make their crooked ways straight....open their eyes where they are blind....drive a wedge between every person and circumstance that the enemy is using to send a lying message to them. Line their paths with people and circumstances that speak life giving, soul restoring truth until they're totally free!May a revival break out over our nation!...., may the weary be restored, and the broken be healed.....

Choose to keep knocking with words that reflect your heart.