Prayer is not just combat with the Evil One, with one’s society, or even one’s divided self, though it is all of these; it is combat with God.
We must struggle as Jacob did at Peniel. We must be prepared to say, “I will not let you go until you bless me.”*
*adapted from Virginia Stem Owens, “Prayer—into the Lion’s Jaws,” Christianity Today, November 19, 1976.
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