It is because of resistance that many believers do not have an active prayer life and do not go after the mission God has for them. I do not know what I expected before I developed a prayer walk. I think I expected angels to be singing in the morning around my bed and Michael the Archangel to come and gently take the sheet, pull it gracefully back and softly speak, “Come, thou servant of the Most High God. The presence of the Lord awaits you in the living room.” Do you suppose that anyone has ever experienced that? I doubt it! You must enter the throne room like every other believer. What way is that? You must stir up a desire within you. Luke 18:1-6 says,

“And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.”

There was a unique way that the widow approached the judge caused fear to rise up in him. He said, “lest by her continual coming…” In this particular passage it says that she came continually. She had an aggressive attitude. She was willing to press the battle. When the greatest challenge in your life is deciding between a black or brown leather Bible, how do you suppose you are going to face the enemy in mortal combat? How are you going to face the enemy in taking a city or a nation for God and not fold under the pressure?