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Chapter 7
Avenge Me of Mine Adversary
The prayer of vengeance against the adversaries of the saints is a A ‘bullseye' prayer that we should emulate.
reassuring parable was told by Jesus about a widow who sought a judge to avenge her of her adversary. The New Living Translation (NLT) says that she sought a
Judge to ‘give her justice’ in her dispute with her enemy. This prayer is of interest to us here because I believe that the substance of Jesus’ example is part of the lessons that should be taken away from each of the parables He told.
What I mean by that is this: The widow is pictured to have sought a superior power or authority, saddled with the responsibility to enforce fairness and justice, to get justice for her. She is pictured to have ‘prayed’ to secure justice in her case with her adversary. Jesus said that God would give her justice speedily if she had come to Him because He is a God of justice and vengeance in His.
