Pray without ceasing

"Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer."  (Romans 12: 12)

Prayer is the key that unlocks hope and patience.  Prayer is so important and so powerful that our gracious and awesome Father made it a universal gift for all His children. It is the one gift that can be exercised always and everywhere.  Life is full of tribulations.  Trials come to all and sundry.  If prayer is free and the ordained means of getting so much needed help in crisis, what reason could there be for not using it.  Ignorance and pride.  I rule out ignorance because prayer is a built-in instinct for all living things.  Even the animals cry out to God for food.  See the scriptures below:

"Who provides nourishment for the raven
when its young cry out to God,
wandering about without food?"  (Job 38: 41)

God hears the young raven when they pray for their food.

"The eyes of all look hopefully to you;
you give them their food in due season.
You open wide your hand
and satisfy the desire of every living thing."  (Psalm 145: 15 - 16)

The eyes of all living things look hopefully to God for their sustenance.  We who know that God is a gracious and merciful Father rejoice in hope and endure our affliction as discipline and we are constant in prayer.