Prayer

A Great Gospel for Great Sinners

1 Timothy 1:15-17

… It is an awful fact that there may be souls in hell whom you have sent there! It was a wise penitential prayer of a converted man who …

The Righteous Holding On His Way

Job 17:9

… come to God by Him to perish, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them? Paul uses an overwhelming argument which I cannot this morning open up …

A Summary of Experience and a Body of Divinity

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

… Many evidently serve a false god, for they utter words of prayer without their hearts, and that is false prayer, unfit for the true God, who must be …

A Sermon to the Lord's Little Children

1 John 2:12

… They are strong in faith, giving glory to God, mighty in prayer, vehement in action, bold in testimony! May the Lord muster among our hosts a grand army …

The Pastor’s Parting Blessing

Romans 16:24

… The minister, as a rule, rather turns it into a prayer than pronounces it as his own personal blessing. I am not certain that it is a great …

The Best Bread

John 6:48

… He who sits upon the Throne of God! I have to bow in prayer and agonize in supplication—so did He! I have to endure slander and rebuke …

Our Stronghold

Proverbs 18:10

… again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us." Who can harm us? Let him have permission to do what he …

The Lord’s Hand behind the Maid’s Mistake

… Thinking and praying over the matter, I entered the house exactly at the time appointed, and was shown into a room where I waited patiently a couple of …

Peace By Believing

Romans 5:1

… But the next night I try over again, and manage to get through my form of prayer. On the whole I am doing so well that I think …

Present Privilege And Future Favor

Deuteronomy 33:27

… What then? Why, the unfailing refuge of God's people in the wilderness was prayer. Moses, their representative, always betook himself to the Most High—at times falling …

The Keeper of the Vineyard

Isaiah 27:3

… It is a terrible thing when intercession fails! Perhaps the dark day that will mark the world's final doom will be a day unwhitened by prayer. Certainly …

The Power of the Risen Savior

Matthew 28:18-20

… Often do I pray, and I doubt not the prayer has come from you, too, that God would raise up leaders in the Church—men full of faith …

Christ Set Forth As A Propitiation

Romans 3:25

… What shall we do when we are on our knees? I confess I have sometimes found myself utterly unable to express my desires in prayer to God for …

The Judgment Seat Of God

Romans 14:10-12

… is Christ that died, yes rather, that has risen again, who also makes intercession for us." Tremble not, therefore, at the doctrine that we shall all appear before …

The Claims of God

Psalm 100:3

… He has given us a Savior who always lives to make intercession for transgressors. What a blessing is this! So long as we sin we have an Advocate …

Confidence and Concern

2 Timothy 1:12-14

… What are they? Trust in the living Person of Him who, though He was dead, rose again and always lives to make intercession for us at the right …

Jesus the Way

John 14:6

… Jesus Christ did on the Cross and what He does today in His intercession in Heaven. And he that comes not in by this door shall never come …

The Plague of the Heart

1Kings 8:38-40

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Whatever prayer and supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of …

Untitled Sermon

Acts 9:32-35

… Much supplication has gone up to Heaven for this and the Lord hears prayer—therefore do I reckon that miracles of healing will surely be worked in this …

Redemption and Its Claims

1 Corinthians 6:20

… Our household is Yours, Lord, grant that by family prayer and by holy example we may make our family to be 'Holiness to the Lord.'" You will go …

The Lord's Own Salvation

Hosea 1:7

… You come here on Sabbaths, and to Monday Prayer Meetings, and Thursday services and I am glad to see you. You also read your Bibles. I am glad …

The Two Pillars Of Salvation

Romans 4:24

… He did rise from the dead and He always lives to make intercession for us—and it is under that aspect that you are to be justified, cleansed …

Jubilee Joy—or, Believers Joyful In Their King

Psalm 149:2

… He entered Glory to carry on His intercession within the veil. His royal life is now spent in pleading for transgressors! All His thoughts are of His people …

The Red Heifer

Hebrews 9:13

… Brothers and Sisters, sin stains our piety and pollutes our devotion! We do not even pray without needing to ask God to forgive the prayer. Our acts of …

The Glorious Master and the Swooning Disciple

Revelation 1:17-18

… them that come unto God by me, seeing I ever live to make intercession for thee.' God bless you, dear friends, by his Spirit. Amen. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE …

Good Earnests of Great Success

Acts 6:7

… Combined with this there must be much earnest prayer. The prayer of faith! have we not held it in high esteem, have we not made some considerable proof …

All and All in All

Colossians 3:11

… Our eternal life is in the fact that He once died for us and that He now lives to make intercession for us. "Christ is all." You must …

God's Non-Remembrance of Sin

Isaiah 43:25

… Why are we taught in that blessed model of prayer which our Savior has left us, to say, "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors," or …

Faith—What Is It? How Can It Be Obtained?

Ephesians 2:8

… The Scriptures further tell us that He "rose again," that He "ever lives to make intercession for us," that He has gone up into Glory and has taken …

The Death of Christ for His People

1 John 3:16

… has risen again and sits at the right hand of God, and makes intercession for us. There stands the master-argument—Christ "laid down His life for us …

Two Loving Invitations

John 1:39

… Neglect family prayer. Never attend a Prayer Meeting. On no account speak about religious matters during the week. Go late to the House of God and fall asleep …

Humility, the Friend of Prayer

Genesis 32:10

… I admit that the excellent writer excludes the prayer of Abraham for Sodom as rather an intercession than a prayer, but there are other prayers of Abraham and …

Faith's Sure Foundation

1 Peter 2:6

… uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them." So then, our faith rests on this—God has set forth Christ …

The Unrivalled Eloquence Of Jesus

John 7:46

… know not what they do"? His intercession for my guilty soul. What is it but the continuance of that gentle prayer? And for certain that last concluding sentence …

Peter's Fall and Restoration

Luke 22:61

… that prayer was made apparent in the Apostle's restoration. That look was effectual upon Peter because the Lord Jesus had, in private, made prevalent intercession for him …

The Substance Of True Religion

Job 19:28

… or we are not justified! It is because He always lives to make intercession for us that He is able to save to the uttermost them that come …

Purging Out the Leaven

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

… For He shall bear their iniquities." "He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." Our great joy …

Receiving the Holy Spirit

Acts 19:2

… intercession for us with groans which cannot be uttered." Pray without the Spirit of God? Oh, Sir, it will be a mechanical performance— the statue of prayer—not …

On Laying Foundations

Luke 6:46-49

… I believe in Christ Jesus and on His atoning sacrifice and living intercession I build my eternal hopes. I also build on the Doctrine of Grace, for the …

The Double "Come"

Revelation 22:17

… This cry is continually going up from the Spirit and from the Church of God and the more gracious the season, the more intense the prayer. Because we …