Date: Monday, 22nd January, 2024
Text: Luke 18:1-8
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Yesterday, we learnt that despite the massive defeats the Israelites had in their battle with the Benjamites, they refused to give up on God. They kept going back to God until their victory was certain. Judges 20:1-48
In order to corroborate this fact, our Lord Jesus Christ told the story of a certain town where a judge lived who neither feared God nor respected people. And there was a widow who lived in that same town who kept coming to him and pleading for her rights, saying, ‘Help me against my enemy!’
For a long time the judge refused to act, but at last he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or respect people,yet because of all the trouble this widow is giving me, I will see to it that she gets her rights. If I don’t, she will keep on coming and finally wear me out!’” Luke 18:1-8
The widow got the justice she sought because she refused to give up.
Great faith is demonstrated when you persist until you get what you are asking.
The word of God says, “You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.” Isaiah 62:6-7
Action Nugget: Ask until your joy is full.