One of the most difficult things to maintain in our life as a New Covenant believer in the Messiah our Lord Jesus is to be consistent in prayer. Throughout the whole Bible prayer is the one spiritual exercise or discipline that puts the believer into contact with the Triune God. All of us can pray in times of difficulty and we should because the eyes of the LORD are upon us as we read, “The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry,” (Psalm 34:15),
However, there will come times in our life when no matter how long or how fervent we pray over a certain situation confronting us where our prayers continue to go unanswered, that we feel like just giving up, or giving into a sense of anxiety that God seems to be silent at such times and that somehow it feels like He has even abandoned us. What is most difficult is to keep on praying when ‘spiritual feelings’ are absent of even seemingly non-existent, and where nothing it seems has changed in the natural and visible realm…