Being Persistent In Prayer:

This story is about being persistence in prayer. It involves two people, a doting mother and her only  wayward son. The mother had spent most of her life praying that her son would come to know Jesus Christ as saviour, as she had done many years before. Her son had got into the wrong crowd, as  youngsters sometimes do and had became involved in the local drugs scene.

The son was addicted to hard drugs and to pay for them he carried out burglaries in the area where he lived. His mother could only guess at his criminal involvement. Since her son left home, she kept telling herself that "perhaps he would find a nice girl and settle down, or perhaps this was a phase he was going through". But this loving mother committed her son to the Lord in prayer everyday without fail. I should think sometimes, she wandered if the Lord heard her at all, but deep down in her heart, she felt that God had told her to pray and that he would do something.

One day the mother became very ill, in fact she was dying, and her son came to visit her. She told him how much she loved him, and that God was going to take her home soon. She also told him that she prayed for him every day and made a special point of telling him before he left. "If when I'm gone, and you get very low and you don't know where to turn for help just call out the name Jesus and he will come to you.         

A long time after his mothers passing the son was in a very poor state. He taken drugs and drink and fell into a gutter and began to shake, he thought he was going to die. While he was lying there he remembered what his mother had told him, that last time. He called out for Jesus to help him. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye he felt a surge of power go through his body. He was suddenly in his right mind and sober. He knew that the Lord had answered his mother's  and his own prayer. And now he new his mother's saviour.   

The moral of this story is to be persistent in prayer. Remember people become Christians because  people like you and me pray for them.

Don't you just love stories like that.

1 Thessalonians 5-17  Say's Pray continually  NIV.
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