Keep On

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Do you want to learn about persevering in prayer? Have a good talk with a soldier’s wife.

A yellow ribbon hangs on her heart as she watches and prays.

Giving up is not in her vocabulary.

To pray big, I need a military mindset.

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Supplication means to ask with earnestness, with intensity, with perseverance…. Do you, do I exhibit this patient determination in our prayers for others? How easily we fall short! In the levitical legal code the fire on the altar was to be kept burning perpetually; it was never to go out (Lev. 16:13). As God builds stamina and grit into our spirituality, we today must learn to burn the eternal flame of prayer on the altar of devotion.”

Richard Foster, Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, page 197

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Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you;

seek and keep on seeking and you will find;

knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 7:7, AMP

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Lord, help me to keep on asking, seeking, and knocking.

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Let’s Talk: Is there a yellow ribbon tied around your heart as you pray big?

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Let’s Pray Big in Community:

This year, my desire is to lift up holy hands and “Pray Big.” Want to join me? I’ve created a private “Pray Big” Facebook group for like-minded sisters to share their stories and surrender each one to our mountain-moving God in prayer. Let’s cry out to God together.