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Faith Hand in Hand With Fear
Psalm 56:3
… I must now have a period of fellowship with God, cost me what it may." These two things will be here—the praying and the not praying, the …
SERMON • SERMON 287Dilemma and Deliverance
Psalm 9:10
… It is not possible that you can perish praying. If you could perish singing, you could not perish praying on your knees. Think ye that while you can …
SERMON • SERMON 1941Grace For Communion
Solomon 4:16
… She breathes this earnest prayer, "Awake, O north wind; and come, you south; blow upon my garden!" In this prayer there is an evident sense of inward sleep …
SERMON • SERMON 449Joseph And His Brothers
Genesis 45:3-5
… And it seems to me that such a prayer God hears—that comes out of a man because he cannot help praying—when the deep agony of his …
SERMON • SERMON 3049'Going and Weeping'
Jeremiah 50:4
… The best praying consists in "going" "boldly unto the Throne of Grace" and pleading there—yet they who win most from God are those whose hearts are most …
COMMENTARYPsalm 28
Psalm 28
… Our Psalm was prayer up to this point, and now it turns to praise. They who pray well, will soon praise well: prayer and praise are the two …
SERMON • SERMON 3305A Clear Understanding
Matthew 13:51
… When he is praying, often the temptation is to glide into a kind of ministerial prayer—not the prayer of a poor sinner coming near to God! Perhaps …
SERMON • SERMON 260An Earnest Invitation
Psalm 2:12
… I will put it into Herbert’s words— “Attend sermons, but prayers most, Praying’s the end of preaching.” And that too is in the text, for what …
SERMON • SERMON 2227Wanted!—Volunteers
2 Chronicles 17:16
… I am wanting to get that fine young fellow into my Lord's army! I am praying God the Holy Spirit to influence men and women to say …
SERMON • SERMON 3219'He Blessed Him There'
Genesis 32:29
… blessings, resort to the place of mighty prayer— "Beyond your utmost needs His love and power can bless! To praying souls He always grants More than they can …
SERMON • SERMON 2830A Good Man in An Evil Case
Psalm 55:22
… Digest your daily bread by first praying, "God give it to me and then God bless me in the use of it. And then God bless me afterwards …
SERMON • SERMON 3258Stumbling at the Word
1 Peter 2:8
… May I, therefore, urge you to be more earnest than ever in prayer for the salvation of sinners? I rejoice that we are a praying Church, but I …
SERMON • SERMON 3242Unparalleled Loving Kindnesses
Psalm 89:49
… Neglect private prayer and then see whether you will not have to cry with Job, "Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when …
SERMON • SERMON 584A Hearer In Disguise
1 Kings 14:6
… I do not know how much praying there is when you sit in a devout posture, though you assume the attitude and compose your countenance as those who …
COMMENTARYPsalm 2
Psalm 2
… All he speaks to God is by prayer and intercession. So the saints, the promise makes them kings over their lusts, conquerors over their enemies; but it makes …
SERMON • SERMON 3386Christ Our Peace
Ephesians 2:14
… That is grand praying, is it not? Sometimes we ought to say, "Just so." "Father, I thank You that You have heard me." 42-44. And I knew …
SERMON • SERMON 2782Love's Lamentation
Malachi 1:2
… God has indeed shown His love to you in permitting you to meet with us in this House of Prayer. You might have been born in some far …
SERMON • SERMON 3262Satan's Arrows and God's
Lamentations 3:12
… You know that you have been praying for a long time, but you have got no comfort from it, so give it up, for it is an utterly …
SERMON • SERMON 1037The Poor Man's Friend
Psalm 72:12
… It is always a blessing for us to pray as well as to get the answer to prayer. Prayer is in itself a blessing. When the Lord hears …
SERMON • SERMON 2389Guidance To Grace and Glory
Psalm 73:24
… The habit of praying before you leap leads to the habit of looking before you leap—and then, when you perceive that you cannot leap—prayer gives you …
SERMON • SERMON 3274Sickness and Prayer, Healing and Praise
Psalm 107:17-22
… So that a true prayer from one who is near unto the gates of death is a prevailing prayer! We earnestly urge all to repent long before they …
SERMON • SERMON 2333The Whole Band Against Christ
Matthew 27:27
… who even by their bedsides are hypocrites, repeating a form of prayer and yet never really praying! They are drawing near to Him with their lips, while their …
SERMON • SERMON 3421Prayer Meetings
Acts 1:14
… scarcely large enough, it was the Prayer Meeting that did it all! When we went to Exeter Hall, we were a praying people, indeed. And when we entered …
SERMON • SERMON 3318How to Read the Bible
1 Timothy 4:13
… God's letter, full of loving words, but prayer must break the seal. When reading goes with praying and praying goes with reading, then a man goes on …
SERMON • SERMON 3212A Command and a Promise
James 4:8
… I do not despise that prayer which is like shooting an arrow up to the Throne of God, but I love still better the prayer that grips the …
SERMON • SERMON 3096The Second Time
Acts 7:13
… You prayed, you say, but what sort of a prayer was it? It was a cold, languid prayer, scarcely worthy of the name. You did not put your …
SERMON • SERMON 1312Good News for Seekers
Psalm 22:26
… Some, when they say a prayer, are satisfied with the mere form. But he who really prays, desires to converse with God in prayer—he longs that his …
SERMON • SERMON 2208The Statute of David for the Sharing of the Spoil
1 Samuel 30:21-26
… It is a great thing for a Church to know that its stores are well guarded by a praying band. While some of us are teaching in the …
SERMON • SERMON 208Righteous Hatred
Psalm 97:10
… thee leave off praying, or else praying will make thee leave off sinning.” Oh! thou canst never be strong in sin and strong in prayer. As long as …
SERMON • SERMON 3430Chiding and Cheering
John 14:9
… Oh, such prayers!—a few words and then it was as if I was not praying at all! So I thought within myself, "Can the Lord accept me …
SERMON • SERMON 185The Great Revival
Isaiah 52:10
… One church opens its doors from five o’clock till six, for prayer; another church opens from six to seven, and summons its praying men to offer the …
SERMON • SERMON 3239Woe and Weal
Micah 7:9
… Do not shun the furnace, dear Friends! You certainly need notpray for it—you will have enough of it without praying for it— but if God sends it …
SERMON • SERMON 2965Prepared to Meet God
Amos 4:12
… It is thus that a rebellious subject should meet his King—confessing guilt, praying for mercy, pleading for forgiveness, asking for Grace. Thus David met his God. Read …
SERMON • SERMON 2899'To You'
Acts 13:26
… Who built this place, but for the most part generous Christian people—who are even now praying for your conversion—God's servants who love you and desire …
SERMON • SERMON 2614Strange Things
Luke 5:26
… His brother had brought him—and was praying earnestly for him. As he was going out, a friend, who had observed him during the service, said to this …
SERMON • SERMON 2111Filling With the Spirit and Drunkenness With Wine
Ephesians 5:18
… He can give you the strength that wrestles in prayer, that lays hold upon the angel of the Covenant and will not let him go, except he grant …
SERMON • SERMON 3163Cumbered With Much Serving
Luke 10:40
… But when Moses was on the top of the mountain in prayer, he had to have two others to hold his hands up! So is it with us …
SERMON • SERMON 2629God's Work in Man
Hosea 2:16
… It is in vain for a man to say, "God will never bend my knees in prayer." God knows how to make your knees bend, be they ever …
SERMON • SERMON 2199Israel's Hope—Or, The Center of the Target
Psalm 130:7
… Thus he reviews the situation—"Out of the depths have I cried unto You, O Lord." Yet he lived to tell the tale of deliverance! His prayer from …
SERMON • SERMON 668Unity In Christ
John 17:20
… This prayer, I take it, was not only the casual expression of the Savior's desire at the last, but is a sort of model of the prayer …