Importunity in Prayer

“I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth” Isaiah 62:6,7

~ God’s professing people must be a praying people, must be public-spirited in prayer, must wrestle with God in prayer, and continue to do so: “Keep not silence; never grow remiss in the duty nor weary of it.” Give him no rest–alluding to an importunate beggar, to the widow that with her continual coming wearied the judge into a compliance…God is so far from being displeased with our pressing importunity, as men commonly are, that he invites and encourages it; he bids us to cry after him; he is not like those disciples who discouraged a petitioner, Mt 15:23. He bids us make pressing applications at the throne of grace, and give him no rest, Lu 11:5,8. He suffers himself not only to be reasoned with, but to be wrestled with. ~ Matthew Henry