Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. I figured I'd try something new to everyone.

Welcome back to the Messy Masterpiece Podcast, which had in Tori. Happy Wednesday.

Happy midweek, y'all.

Happy midweek. Tori wanted to say home day, but whatever. We are doing day three in the

U-version Bible app challenge thing, which is the war room playlist. There's a link to it in the

description below. And as always, I'm going to read the scripture and then Tori's going to

read the devotional. Let's just hop right in. So the first scripture is Luke 18 verse 1,

and I'm reading from the new living translation. It says this. One day, Jesus told his disciples

a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. And that scripture is Psalm

77 verses 11 through 14. And it says this. But then I recall all you have done, O Lord. I remember

your wonderful deeds of long ago. They are constantly in my thoughts. I cannot stop thinking

about your mighty works. Oh, God, your ways are holy. Is there any God as mighty as you?

You're the God of great wonders. You demonstrate your awesome power among the nations.

Hmm. The devotional says Jesus said we ought to pray and not faint in Luke 18 one. He told us to be

persistent in our prayer life. Think about Elijah who prayed one time and fire came down from heaven

on Mount Carmel. But it took him praying three times before God resurrected the dead son of the

widow. And Elijah prayed seven times before God sent back rain on the earth during that time of

drought. Elijah learned to pray and trust God's timing and to not give up. In Christian history,

we also think about George Mueller who lived a life that was one of the greatest demonstrations

of answered prayer. When he died, he had 50,000, 50,000 documented answers to prayer. 5,000 of those

were answered on the day he prayed them. Of course, that means 90% of the time George Mueller just kept

waiting and praying. He prayed for 63 years for one man to come to Christ before that man ended

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