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Hello Sisters,

Welcome to the month of November, my prayer is that it shall be one to remember for us. May the God of eleventh hour show up for us. This year shall end in praise in Jesus Name.

I would like to admonish us never to stop praying. This might sound a little cliche but you see its easy to stop praying especially when it seems we aren't getting answer to prayers.
Honestly, I have been on this road before not just before, even in this year. I have seem so close to an answered prayer (started giving thanks infact) and suddenly things turned the other way. Oh! I was 'disappointed '. Believing God for anything for myself became a struggle let alone pray for myself. I could believe God for others and join them in prayer but when it comes to ask God for myself, I couldn't. This somewhat put a strain between me and God.
Nevertheless, here's the victory, I  realised the enemy was only messing with my head afterall, the bible says ask that your joy may be full and that's what I will do until I see the things i desire become a reality. I admonish you to do same. Here are some scriptures I hope you would find useful:

1. 1 John 5:14‭-‬15 NLT
And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.

2. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 NLT
Never stop praying.

3.Luke 18:1‭-‬3 MSG
Jesus told them a story showing that it was necessary for them to pray consistently and never quit. He said, “There was once a judge in some city who never gave God a thought and cared nothing for people. A widow in that city kept after him: ‘My rights are being violated. Protect me!’

4. James 5:16 AMPC
Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].

5. Matthew 7:7‭-‬8 AMPC
Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened.


On a final note, let me give this analogy:
***someone who was hit by a car would still be taken to the hospital by a car. A sick person who hates going to an hospital for sevral reasons would still need to get to the same hospital for prescription to get better.
Our prayers might seem unheard but we should know that prayer is continous, prayer is what gets our prayers heard.
Loads of love,

Your Sis





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