I have a Dachshund who will keep nudging me until he gets my attention.  As I was studying God’s word this morning, the nudging became annoying, and I stopped and said, ” What do you want?  At that moment, I had the realization that this is what we should be doing with the Lord.  

Jesus taught a parable about always praying and not giving up: the Parable of the persistent widow.   

“Then Jesus told his disciples 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 what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the 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 what people think,  yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”

And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?  I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”  Luke 18:1-8.