Relentless Prayer: Contending for Canada’s Future

Join us in relentless prayer as we contend for Canada's future during this crucial election season. Discover the power of persistent prayer and community engagement.

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Hi everybody. It's Chris Byber, the director of the National House of Prayer, coming to you today from Ottawa. Well, thank you everyone for continuing to press in during this election season. We are so grateful for those who are joining us on all kinds of prayer last Thursday with Fate and that group six hours. What a powerful time. you know, those that are joining every day with Shirley Hillbrand. Thank you everybody joining our stuff. There's all kinds of things. There's some live stuff coming. You'll see it in our our prayer stream. Uh something in Toronto, something here in Ottawa. Keep your eye on that. We'd love to see you on the 27th. And so, thank you for praying. Thank you for

engaging. And thank you for doing this every day. I know it's been a lot. We've been here since the beginning of election. It's actually you know wonder how much work it was. It's been a half a year's work for us in one month. So thank you for the wonderful feedback, the positive and for engaging. Thank you everybody. But I want to tell you why and it's in the word and it comes from the it's the parable of the persistent widow. Many of us know this and this is why we're doing it. It's the persistence of us. It's the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous that avails much. It's, you know, it's rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, and everything give thankful prayer, listening to the

father, listening to what he's saying, praying what he's saying, and releasing it into our atmosphere. Your kingdom come, your will be done. That's the whole thing about the kingdom of God. Your kingdom come, your will be done. Many times, you know, if it was just something that Jesus said we could have done it once, he would have said, "Pray this prayer once and abracadabra everything will be great." No, he says when you pray, we pray this. And that's the whole thing with the the Lord's prayer. It's nothing that we do just one time, but it's from a place perpetually contending for the will of God. Contending for the will of God over Canada. There's a battle and that's why

we contend. So let me just read this again from you for you from from Luke chapter 18. Then Jesus told his disciple a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said in a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. There and there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with a plea. grant me justice against my adversary. For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, "Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice so that she won't eventually wear me out with her with her coming." And the Lord said,"Listen to what the unjust judge

says." And we will and will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones. Look at what the unjust judge says. You know, this woman's going to wear me out and I'll do it anyway. But how much more will your heavenly father do for you? those he loves. Those he loves to hear your voice. I love that passage out of uh Song of Solomon 2 where it says, "I love the sound of your voice." And that's how God feels about us. He loves the sound of our of our voice. And it's not that we are bothering him. We are actually coming from that place of listening to his voice and praying what's on his heart. That's why we contend for our nation. That's why we're contending in this in this election time

to pray the will of God for this season. Pray that his kingdom come and his will be done here in Canada in the election. So I want to continue thank say I want to say to you thank you for participating. Thank you for pressing in. Thank you for the encouraging words that many of you send us um through emails and through the on the YouTube u on our YouTube, you know, response on the bottom of those things. Thank you everybody. Continue to press in. Don't be weary and welloing. We're almost through this. Well, actually, we're not almost through this. Once the election's over, we're going to continue to pray because we'll have a whole new leader and a whole set of other problems that

we need to contend for the kingdom to come. I'm Chris Byber, the director of the National House of Prayer, and we'll see you next time. Bye for now. [Music]