If you’ve already prayed about it, what do you do next? Really, what do you do when you’ve talked to God about this?



Jesus is very clear. After he teaches his disciples how to pray, he tells them in Luke 11: 9-10, “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.”



When you’ve already prayed about it, then you pray again. You keep talking to God about it. Over and over again.



But why? The why is important because I must admit for a long time I had it wrong. I thought if I kept praying about it, maybe I would change God’s mind about it. But honey, God already has good plans for this situation. He already has a preferred future that is better than the future you’re imagining. You praying about it isn’t about changing God’s mind, it’s about changing yours.



When you continually pray about something, your mind begins aligning with God’s. The more you release it to him, the more you can receive the fullness of what he wills.



This is really a matter of passion. Will you be more passionate about your way and your timing, or God’s divine plan concerning this? Prayer develops passion. The more you pray, the more you recognize God in the details, and the more you recognize God in the details, the more passionate you become about watching him work.



The Passion Translation of Luke 11: 10 refers to the person who keeps on praying as the “persistent seeker”. The persistent seeker of God’s way will discover every single thing they need. The persistent seeker of God’s timing will be filled with passionate patience in the wait. The persistent seeker of God’s plan will walk in supernaturally aligned details.



Persistently seeking God changes you. That’s why Jesus says “keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking.” It’s not the one big thing you do once that changes everything. It’s the little things you do daily that impacts your life. John C. Maxwell said, “You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine”.



You may not feel the immediate impact of daily prayer time, but you keep on doing that and I’m telling you there’s no possible way you will come out the same. You may open your Bible on most days and not understand what you’re reading and feel like it’s a waste of time, but you keep opening God’s word and eventually his word will get in you. It will change how you see things. It will change how you react to things. It will change how you think about things. Why? Because God’s word changes you on the inside and eventually that starts showing up on the outside.



Jesus says, KEEP ON DOING THIS.



A habit creates dependency. If you drink coffee every morning for a few weeks, soon you will have a dependency on the caffeine in that coffee. You will NEED it. Like get a massive headache without it kinda need it.



If you have a habit of hitting the snooze button 7 times before you get up, you soon develop a dependency on all 7 of those alarms before you actually wake up. What used to wake you up the first time, you now sleep right through as you hit the snooze out of habit without realization the alarm even went off. You are now dependent upon every hit the snooze button before waking up.



If you start drinking a glass of wine to unwind at the end of every day,