Many people use the scripture about the woman who went to the evil judge over and over again asking for what she wanted, to teach that we should never stop praying for something we want.
Luke 18:1-8
"18 Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not become discouraged,
2 saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect any person.
3 Now there was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my opponent.’
4 For a while he was unwilling; but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect any person,
5 yet because this widow is bothering me, I will give her justice; otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’”
6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge *said;
7 now, will God not bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night, and will He delay long for them?
8 I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”
God is not an unrighteous judge, He is not like the judge the woman went to, He is a righteous judge and does not require begging continually to help the woman. God was saying in this passage that God would not delay long like the unrighteous judge. This is not about how many times the woman had to beg the judge as a lesson for us to beg God, NO, it is saying the opposite, that God is not like that unrighteous judge.
When we ask God praying in the Holy Spirit in His Will, He will not delay answering because we are praying His Will.
James 4:3
"3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures."
Often God gives us desires we don't even ask for because it is His will to bless us. Other times He does not give us what we pray hard for because it is not His will. Begging God for something that is not His will does not cause Him to move.
Let's take a look at the three Hebrew men who were thrown into the furnace. They did not beg God to save them, they knew God would do what He decided to do and they would accept His Will. They said: "our God will save us, but if not, we will serve Him." Jesus Christ was with them in the furnace and did deliver them.
Daniel 3:17-18
"If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up."
Notice there were no long prayers, there were not many days of agonizing in prayer to manipulate God, there was merely a declaration that their God knew them, the circumstance, and will be with them in whatever His will was for them.
Notice too that they were thrown into the furnace for a time, but Christ walked in there with them until He took them out. Almost seems like a picture of the believers now as we walk through this firey furnace of hate all around us, but we know we will be delivered soon in the rapture.
Every time you sense that something is off in the things that people say, go to the Bible asking for wisdom and reject the wrong teaching to embrace the truth of the Scriptures.
James 1:4-6 "…4 Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.…"
Let your faith believe God, not the people around us who say all manner of things that have no basis in Scripture.
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