Prayer

Psalm 143

Psalm 143

… praying may be lost, want of thy hearing it, nor thy hearing it be lost for want of thy attending it. When I only make a prayer to …

Degrees Of Power Attending The Gospel

1 Thessalonians 1:5

… Or, let me say, who seldom do yourselves the happiness of waiting up on God in Prayer Meetings. You are not the best of our members. You will …

Refusing to Be Comforted

Psalm 77:2

… He could not sleep, so he took to prayer. Which is the greater mercy—prayer or sleep—I cannot say. In the Psalmist's case, I suppose that …

How to Read the Bible

Matthew 12:3-7

… In prayer there is such a thing as praying in prayer—a praying that is in the bowels of the prayer. So in praise there is a praising …

No Difference

Matthew 5:45

… He does not believe in praying—not he! And that oppressor over yonder, that we spoke of, never asked God to send the rain—he said it was …

Come From the Four Winds, O Breath!

Ezekiel 37:9

… Next, because of our absolute need of the Holy Spirit, we must give ourselves to prayer before our work and after our work. A man who believes that …

The Church Encouraged and Exhorted

Isaiah 43:6

… There are some people for whom you are praying, yet, possibly, you will never bring them to Christ by merely praying for them. While others for whom you …

'Nevertheless at Your Word'

Luke 5:5

… I did not wait upon Him in prayer for guidance." You will feel very uneasy and uncomfortable in your conscience and if any trouble shall arise through it …

Who Found It Out?

2 Kings 7:3-7

… Oh, that some leprous ones may go forth today and make a grand discovery! I desire to preach, praying in the Holy Spirit that the Holy Spirit may …

Praying and Pleading

Jeremiah 14:7

… The Lord felt compelled to say of them, "I will destroy My people, since they return not from their ways." Theirs was prayer in terror, not prayer in …

Household Salvation

Acts 16:32-34

… Let Abraham’s prayer be for Ishmael, let Hannah pray for Samuel, let David plead for Solomon, let Andrew find first his brother Simon, and Eunice train her …

Eternal Life!

John 17:3

… I thought you were going to sing, David, but you are at prayer, I see. This is how we live spiritually—we breathe in the air by prayer …

Knowing and Doing

2 Corinthians 8:9

… gladly place our offerings because we have been made willing of ourselves! 4. Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift and take upon us …

The Truth Of God's Salvation

Psalm 69:13

… So that, praying is communion and praying is edification! I think that you will grow more in half an hour's prayer than you will in an hour …

Psalm 102

Psalm 102

… Hear my prayer, O LORD. Or O JEHOVAH. Sincere supplicants are not content with praying for praying's sake, they desire really to reach the ear and heart …

The Story of God’s Mighty Acts

Psalm 44:1

… been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? O dear friends! let us agonize in prayer, and it shall come to pass that this Music …

Labor In Vain

Jonah 1:12

… He is accumulating the fuel for his own burning, filling the sea of wrath in which he must be drowned forever. "What? When I am praying, groaning and …

Another Royal Procession

Matthew 21:5

… How often have I blushed as I have heard in prayer that text, 'Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you …

The Ever-present Crisis

2 Peter 3:17

… that God hears prayer and answers it is positively ridiculous!" Yet for all that, they say that they would not discourage us from praying. Now, personally, I feel …

The Hope Laid Up In Heaven

Colossians 1:5

… Paul says, "We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus …

Election no Discouragement to Seeking Souls

Exodus 33:19

… If he should give to us our due, we should not longer remain on praying ground, breathing the air of mercy. The creature, before its Creator, must now …

Our Omnipotent Leader

Matthew 28:18

… We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus. We are …

The Reason Why Many Cannot Find Peace

James 4:7-10

… prayers is not praying. The essence of prayer lies in the heart drawing near to God—and it can do that without words. Prayer is the feeling that …

The Secret of Failure

Matthew 17:19-21

… So we may kneel, apparently in prayer, and not really be praying, for the mind is gadding to and fro. The minister, also, can get into a way …

Children Brought to Christ, and Not to the Font

Mark 10:13-16

… prayer, and some of the words of a mother’s prayer we shall never forget, even when our hair is grey. I remember on one occasion her praying …

Life's Ever-Springing Well

John 4:14

… to restrain prayer, I have never been at peace. There was no one to drag me to my knees, but I could not help praying! Nobody would report …

Sermons From Saintly Deathbeds No. 783

Genesis 49:33

… And wherever you see that God has sent an ambassador, and that His ambassador is praying for you, in Christ's stead, to be reconciled to God, turn …

A Sermon of Personal Testimony

Deuteronomy 32:47

… call it an answer to prayer, and as long as I get such coincidences, I shall be perfectly satisfied to go on praying! "A rose by any other …

May I?

Matthew 9:21

… My dear son, in praying just now, I am sure felt a very remarkable liberty at the Mercy Seat and the witness of the Spirit within that he …

A Wilderness Cry

Psalm 63:1

… Have you restrained prayer? Do you wonder that the land grows dry? Has the Word of God been neglected? Have you left off its study through pressure of …

Life In Earnest

2 Chronicles 31:21

… Christ's kingdom in the world; my secret prayer used to be in great part taken up in praying for it. If I heard the least hint of …

“Helensburgh House” and Garden

… sinner, that I introduce it here, as a diamond among my rock-crystals, praying that some longing soul may find it, appropriate it, and be rich for ever …

Characteristics of Faith

John 4:48

… them. Prayer with you is a sort of luxury too dear to indulge in often. Ah! but he who has true faith in his heart, is praying all …

Eccentric Preachers

… again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."— iloiiiANa viii. 34. Sebmou XI.— .^ Faaltn of Bememhranee 171 "We have known …

Psalm 29

Psalm 29

… buried in the red sea of his blood, when the voice of his intercession is heard. Verse 7. The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire …

What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper?

Jonah 1:5-6

… In Jonahs’ ship every man was a pleader; every person was praying; and though I cannot say this of the world that lieth in the wicked one, yet …

On the Choice of a Text

… I confess that I frequently sit hour after hour praying and waiting for a subject, and that this is the main part of my study; much hard labour …

First Printed Works.–Author, Publishers, and Readers

… 25 : " Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." The …

Psalm 149

Psalm 149

… The sanctuary is the house of praise as well as the house of prayer. All saints praise God: they would not be saints if they did not. Their …

Psalm 96

Psalm 96

… dead, his ascension to heaven, sitting at the right hand of God, and intercession for his people; the wonderful effusion of his Spirit, and the conquests of his …