It sees the difficulties, but it sees Jesus greater. It goes to the top of Carmel, and pitches its tent, if need be, and it looks and looks and looks again, for that man to come, for that money to loosen, for that health to come. The faith that believes that God will is expectant. And faith is persistent . That is the Law of Confidence-Persistence.
Prayer is a conflict, a great spirit fight.
And there may be a time of waiting. And the result comes because Jesus is Victor. The hard heart softens, the stubborn will bends, the hard way straightens, and no thing is restrained. A little boy of about six came to his mother one day in a Christian home, with Christian training. And the mother quickly recognized that her little boy was beginning to think for himself about the meaning of words that he heard in the home.