P.U.S.H.

"The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much."
James 5:16b

"pray without ceasing;"
1 Thess. 5:17

27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.
28 And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”
29 So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.”[a]
Mark 9:27-30

"...praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints"
Eph.6:18

How many times have you said, or heard it said, especially in difficult and dire situations,"all we can do is pray." ? Sometimes, praying is not only all we can do, but all we need to do.
Effective fervent prayer, without ceasing, the kind that comes when all other means of affecting a matter have been exhausted, like the prayers of the Psalmist, "Hear My Cry, O God..." The kind of prayer that I often see manifested in the natural, by small children,(sometimes mine!) who look up into the faces of their parents and relentlessly petition, until the parent finally caves in and gives the child what they want.
Why do we often resort to prayer as the last resort, always trying to handle things ourselves, when all the time our Abba, is here waiting for us to call on His Name, with His Holiness inclined towards us? I don't want to wait and make prayer the last option anymore, I want the privilege of prayer to be my first choice.
Lord, help me today, in every situation, to P.U.S.H. - PRAY UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS.