Perseverance in Prayer! Jesus did! and at that, on the Cross and the third Day, God the Father Called Him out of the Tomb in the Glory of His Resurrection!
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish? 2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest. Psalm 22:1-2
"45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me”-- Matthew 27:45
"30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit." John 19:30
"46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”[e] When he had said this, he breathed his last." Luke 23: 46
Sometimes when we pray, we feel that our prayers to God go into the clouds unanswered, as a result of the present agony and distress of life that we are undergoing at the moment. But take heart! and continue in prayer, Jesus Did! And in the agony of His pain and suffering on the cross, He cried out in prayer as He was undergoing His present distress and agony of being forsaken on the cross; yet He persisted in prayer on the Cross and cried out it is, "finished!" And Cried again, “Father into your Hands, I commit my Spirit” and breathed his last, and it seemed that on the cross Jesus’ prayers of forsaken went away unanswered but in God the Father’s plan and purpose the Delay to Jesus’ answer to prayer was delayed three days unto the glory of His Resurrection, and Did God the Father ever call Jesus out of the tomb unto His glorious Resurrection and Ascension, and was Jesus’ prayer ever answered, Indeed!
Our Distresses, agony, pain and sufferings in life come that we may, like Jesus, make them known to God the Father and release them into His Providential care and Sovereignty during the times of our great agony, pain, and distresses, as John Calvin Comments on this text, “unburden them, as it were, into His bosom”
John Calvin Quotes[Commenting on Ps. 22:2] "The true rule of praying is, therefore, this, that he who seems to have beaten the air to no purpose, or to have lost his labor in praying for a long time, should not, on that account, leave off, or desist from that duty. Meanwhile, there is this advantage which God in his fatherly kindness grants to his people, that if they have been disappointed at any time of their desires and expectations, they may make known to God their perplexities and distresses, and unburden them, as it were, into his bosom."
