Cucumbers belong to the same plant family as squash, pumpkin, and watermelon (the Cucurbitaceae family). Like watermelon, cucumbers are made up of mostly (95 percent) water, which means eating them on a hot summer day can help you stay hydrated. However, there's reason to eat cucumbers all year long.
The same word is used again to indicate persistence or perseverance in prayer. God desires this kind of prayer, because it indicates that we have come to a sense of our own lack and are unable to meet the need ourselves.ith persistence and perseverance, we are to be devoted to prayer and petition for all the saints. It is the work of the Spirit of God in our lives that makes this effective and possible. But we are responsible to apply ourselves with diligence and urgency. Praying will take persistence and diligence.
When Jesus taught his disciples to pray, the first thing he said they were to ask was that God make his own name holy. And yet, while âhallowed be thy nameâ may seem the least likely and least necessary of the six petitions in the Lordâs Prayer, it is perhaps the petition that teaches us the most about prayer. For it teaches us about the One to whom we pray and how to live in response to his claim on our lives. Godâs holiness.