Topic: Preserving Goodness
Text: Matthew 26:36-45

What do you do after God has granted you answers to your prayers? Do you stop praying? No. You must continue to pray until your joy becomes full. Can you say that your joy is full at this moment? I am sure you have more challenges ahead of you. Although you already have outstanding testimonies, you need more. Although you are blessed, you need more blessings. If God has done any good thing for you, you must preserve it. You must continue to pray until your good becomes better and your better becomes best. There remains more land to be possessed. Aspire to higher heights through prayer. Jesus Christ said in Luke 18:1; “And he speake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.” Keep on pushing. Keep on praying until you get the results. The result will surely come. If you have prayed over three or four points and God has answered, maybe, two of them, press on, because the answer to the others will also come. He said in John 16:24, “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name, ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” Keep on asking. Keep on praying until your joy becomes full. Suppose our joy becomes full, can we then stop praying? No. When your joy is full you must keep on praying because good situations need more prayers than bad ones, so that they will not turn bad. In Matthew 26:41, Jesus Christ said, “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation, the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” An illustration is the saying of the elders that a change is okay for the poor man but it is a terrible thing for a rich man. When a poor man changes, he become rich. When a change comes to the life of a rich man, he becomes poor. It is when all is well that you need prayers even more, for the pleasant situation not to become bad.

Memory Verse: John 16:24 - “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.”