这两天，我们看过「复兴祷告」的最主要特点是「充满热诚」；现在，让我们来看看「复兴祷告」的第二个特点：坚持与持久。当你阅读有关复兴的记载时，你会发现复兴祷告的这种特点总是存在的。在复兴前，人们不单热诚地祷告，更是持续不断地祷告。罗伯斯（Evan Roberts）持续不断地为威尔斯能经历复兴祷告超过13年之久，他说：「没有一天我不伏在神面前向祂呼求，求祂差派祂的灵到我祖国来。」有超过十年的时间，欧文（Dafydd Owen）每天都祷告祈求圣灵向威尔斯倾注。此外，有关大卫摩根（David Morgan）的记载说：「在1858年之前的十年，在他的祷告中，从不缺少祈求圣灵倾注的部份。」

我们必须承认这种坚持往往不是自然发生的，而是由圣灵所赐下。据说当罗伯斯还是小孩时，「他很容易放弃，几乎从来没有坚持完成过任何一件事情。」

另一位伟大的复兴家爱德华兹（Jonathan Edwards）谈论持续和毅力的重要性时说：「从圣经中明显看到，当神的百姓向祂呼求一些伟大和重要的恩惠时，神经常借着延迟赐下祂的怜悯，来试验他们的信心和忍耐，不单这样，神甚至会先让他们经历更大的黑暗；不过，对于那些坚持不断祷告、『决不放弃直等到神赐福』的人，神最终必定不会令他们失望。」

We look now at the second characteristic of "revival praying" - tenacity and persistence. Read the record of revivals and you will find that this quality is also present. In the days prior to revival people not only pray zealously but they pray persistently. For over a period of thirteen years Evan Roberts prayed for revival to come to Wales. "There was never a day," he says, "when I didn't fling myself before God and cry out for Him to send the Holy Spirit to my native land." Dafydd Owen also prayed every day for over ten years for a great outpouring to come to the Principality. And concerning David Morgan it was recorded "that for ten years before 1858 a petition for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit was never absent from his prayers".

We must recognise that often this persistence was not something that was natural but was given by the Holy Spirit. It was said of Evan Roberts that when he was a boy, "he hardly ever saw anything through and would give up a task most easily"

Listen to what Jonathan Edwards, another great revivalist, had to say about the importance of persistence and perseverance: "It is very apparent from the Word of God that the Lord is wont often to try the faith and patience of His people, when crying to Him for some great and important mercy, by withholding the mercy sought for a season, and not only so but at first to cause an increase of dark appearances. And yet He, without fail, at last succeeds those who continue instant in prayer with all perseverance and will 'not let Him go except He blesses'."