For More Persistence in My Prayer Life
Lord Jesus,
Help me be more persistent in my prayers. I ask this both for my prayer life in general and regarding specific prayers. You were deliberate about carving out time in your busy ministry for speaking to our Father in prayer. Shift my attitude about prayer so that, rather than squeezing in prayers here and there when I randomly think of it, I instead order my schedule around set times for prayer. And when I pray specific prayers, prompt me to revisit those same prayers until our Father’s answer is clear. After all, you repeated the same prayer three times in Gethsemane before giving your life for us. Let my persistent prayer life reflect the worth I attach to the magnitude of your sacrifice for me, which earned for me the privilege of prayer in the first place.
In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.