I ran the race this year with my youngest son, David, who is 10. We plugged along the 6.2 mile course together, and as we ran we encouraged each other. Once during the race I was talking to David, asking him some questions. Let's just run. There were times when we slowed to a walk, but our persistence paid off, and we finished the race side by side.
Persistence is the key to a lot of things in life.
They had an argument some years before, and she refused to speak to him through all those years. Jesus talked about persistence in prayer in the very passage before us this morning. I. Persistent Prayer. Each of the verbs is in the present imperative tense in the Greek language, which suggests a continuous action. Asking implies humility and a consciousness of need.