Galatians 6:9  ‘And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.’
DAILY READING: Revelation 14; Esther 5:1-6:13; Psalm 106:24-48
Billy Graham was born on November 7, 1918, on a North Carolina dairy farm. His parents were hard-working people who had great belief in God. But Billy, when he became a teenager, began to live in spiritual rebellion. He grudgingly attended church with his parents and the family’s Bible-reading, praying and psalm-singing left him feeling restless and resentful. Yet his parents kept praying to God to touch his heart and use Him as an instrument in His kingdom.
In May of 1934, the Christian businessmen of Charlotte, North Carolina, came to hold an all-day prayer meeting on the farm that belonged to Billy’s father. And one of the prayer points raised on that day was that out of their town Charlotte, The Lord would raise up someone to preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Billy seemed a highly unlikely candidate for this. However, by November of that same year, he got born again. This happened when an evangelist came to hold a crusade in their town. Though Billy’s parents actively attended the crusade, to Billy it seemed like a religious circus and he felt antagonistic towards it. However, a while later, his interest in the revival picked up after reading an article in which the evangelist claimed that local high school boys and girls were living an immoral life. This statement had angered the High School students who threatened to go and disrupt the meetings. Billy was curious to see what would happen and so decided to attend the crusade that day with some of his friends. When Billy got to the crusade, he found that the students had declined to carry out their threat. However, as Billy listened to the preacher he found himself held bound by the words he was hearing. Finally, feeling deeply convicted about his sinfulness and rebellion, he got down on his knees and prayed to God for forgiveness. On that day he got born again. And later on, he would receive the call to ministry and actively began to pursue God’s plan for his life.
Billy Graham would become a successful minister who eventually preached the Gospel to more people in live audiences than anyone else in history. Nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories heard the Gospel through him.
Psalm 40: 1 says ‘ I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. ..’
Indeed God does hear us when we cry unto Him in prayers. When Billy’s parents prayed for him and the businessmen came together and prayed for God to raise a great preacher from their community, God heard their prayers. And God even went beyond their expectations and did more than they had asked for. Likewise whatever, we are believing God to do for us, if we remain steadfast in prayers, and not give up, God will not only answer, but will exceed our expectations.
We need to faithfully persevere in prayers, even when the answers do not seem to immediately come. God does not store prayers, He answers them. But we have need of the patience to persist until we obtain the promise. Whenever we begin to pray, in the unseen realm, God begins to orchestrate things. And just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean the answer is not on the way. In Daniel 10:12–13, Daniel had set himself to pray and fast for 21 days, however, what he did not know was that from the first day he began to pray, God already answered. But the answer seemed delayed because the angel bringing it was resisted by the prince of Persia for twenty-one days, until Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help him.
The good news is that the angelic forces working to bring your answer are greater than the forces trying to withhold it. And as long we don’t give up praying, our answers will surely arrive. Persistence wears down resistance. And persistence means not giving up, not quitting, not giving in and not becoming discouraged when answers don’t come as quickly or in the manner we imagined.
Galatians 6:9 says ‘And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.’
Indeed there is a due season for our reaping. And if we don’t give up in praying, just as God exceeded the expectations of Billy’s parents, God will do for us far above all we could ever ask or imagine.
PRAYER: Lord, Please grant me the grace to persist in the place of prayer; help me not to be discouraged but to keep pressing on, until my answer comes in Jesus Name.
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The truth of God’s Word in the life of a believer is always reflective, the results can never be hidden. – WORDBITE 222.

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