However, he recognizes that God will answer “in the time of [his] favor” (verse 13). Whenever we pray, it is appropriate for us to be passionate and desperate but also willing to wait for God’s timing. Nothing makes us dependent on God’s sovereign love and wisdom like having to persevere in prayer and wait for the time of his favor. “Unbelief talks of delays; faith knows that properly there can be no such thing.”57
