Do not grow weary or tired when praying. Find strength and persevere in your prayers and petitions with good faith and they will be granted according to the perfect will of God. When you are feeling weak, lean on others and seek their support and encouragement. Look to the Lord for he is our strength and our help. There are several examples in the Bible concerning the need for persistent and perpetual prayer. Abraham having to keep his arms upraised in prayer for his people to have favor with God and win a battle. It went on so long that he had a few others hold his arms up when he grew tired. Luke's Gospel also demonstrates the efficacy of persistency in prayer when a judge grants a woman's request simply because she kept asking, and, in the story of Saint Augustine, he was a prodigal son; a rich ******* and toying with the devil (the occult). His mother prayer for him to return to his faith daily for forty years! It finally worked. It is encouraging to hear that, with faithful consistency, prayers are heard and can be answered even if it takes a really long time. Praying "always, without ceasing" sounds like a pretty tall order. It is, but it's easier than it sounds. Often, we think about talking to God and maybe listening occasionally, saying the wrote prayers we memorized as kids and that would be hard, but our lives can be a prayer: our working, our resting, our playing, our singing, our everything. Everything can be a prayer to God if it is "offered up" to Him.

Lord, let our lives be lifted up as a prayer to you. In the most heroic act, to the most mundane task, let us offer it up to you. Like the song says: "Everything I do, I do it for You". Help us live and speak, and think and breathe in your truth and, by your grace, when people look at us, they really see your face. Help us pray without ceasing and ask for our faith increasing. I see that, sometimes, the waiting isn't you hesitating but teaching us virtue and faithfulness' value. Amen