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Too Little for the Lamb
Exodus 12:3
… There must be constant prayer where training appears to fail, for we can pray even for those of our children who are past the age in which we …
SERMON • SERMON 884Help for Seekers of the Light
Isaiah 59:9
… Perhaps you think it poor praying— indeed, you hardly dare call it prayer at all—but God judges not as you do. A groan is heard in Heaven …
SERMON • SERMON 398The New Nature
1 Peter 1:23-25
… And Christian husbands, and Christian wives, be not satisfied with merely praying that your partner’s characters may become moral and honest; ask that something may be done …
SERMON • SERMON 6Sweet Comfort for Feeble Saints
Matthew 12:20
… There are many in this house of prayer this morning who are indeed weak. Some of God’s children, blessed be his name, are made strong to do …
SERMON • SERMON 2908The Saint's Heritage and Watchword
Isaiah 54:17
… Little do some of us know, when we meet here, what our neighbor in the same seat has had to suffer through coming to this House of Prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 3356David's Sublime Consolation
2 Samuel 23:5
… As I said before, we will only give you a few plain, practical thoughts, praying the Holy Spirit to make them of Divine Power. The glorious comfort which …
SERMON • SERMON 2417First Forgiveness, Then Healing
Luke 5:20
… Now, how do you account for this power present to heal? Why, by that wilderness prayer—"He withdrew Himself into the wilderness, and prayed," and afterward, in a …
SERMON • SERMON 3180Christ the Creator
Colossians 1:16
… Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you Paul very graciously blends his giving of thanks and his constant prayer for these Christians at Colosse and …
SERMON • SERMON 2661A Marvelous Change
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
… But he went into a chapel one morning when a little Prayer Meeting was being held before the service, and there was a certain old sea captain praying …
SERMON • SERMON 2419Repentance after Conversion
Psalm 51:17
… But broken hearts are not like that—with broken hearts the hymn is a real hymn, the prayer is a real prayer, the hearing of sermons is earnest …
SERMON • SERMON 2253The Perseverance of Faith
Matthew 15:28
… She was not an idle repeater offorms of prayer. Her prayer leaped, red-hot, from her soul—"Have mercy on me, O Lord, You Son of David!" But …
COMMENTARYPsalm 27
Psalm 27
… there be a prayer, and there is a prayer; that is, he pours upon a man a spirit of grace and supplication, a praying disposition; he puts in …
SERMON • SERMON 2102Pricked in Their Heart
Acts 2:36-37
… of earnest, united, believing prayer on the part of the whole church. Peter was not alone: he was the voice of a praying company, and the believers had …
SERMON • SERMON 175The Two Talents
Matthew 25:22-23
… At last, after many a day of hard persuasion, and many an hour of sad disappointment, and many a night of sleepless tearful prayer, at last she lived …
SERMON • SERMON 3071Idolatry Condemned
1 John 5:21
… From full assurance we mount still higher to the clear conviction that God hears prayer—and from that height we mount yet higher to the assured confidence that …
SERMON • SERMON 362None But Jesus—Second Part
John 3:18
… When I am on my knees, and I am not condemned, I am sure it must be sovereign grace, for even when I am praying I deserve to …
SERMON • SERMON 3394'Who Is This?'
Matthew 21:10
… But you got alone with God in prayer and you saw Christ as suffering with you, standing in the furnace with you—and how happy and quiet your …
SERMON • SERMON 436A Sermon For Spring
Solomon 2:10-13
… That they should be more devoted, filled with more zeal, more fervency, doing more for Christ, praying more for sinners, laboring more for the conversion of the world …
SERMON • SERMON 2103The Hunger and Thirst Which Are Blessed
Matthew 5:6
… And this comes with peculiar sweetness to one who is striving and praying, hungering and thirsting, after righteousness. When he hears of righteousness by faith in the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 2751'A Prepared Place for a Prepared People'
John 14:2
… 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, and of …
SERMON • SERMON 3353The Great Teacher and Remembrancer
John 14:26
… Believe me, it is one of the greatest joys of my heart to see you here so constantly at Prayer Meetings and on Lecture Nights. It always seems …
SERMON • SERMON 3446'Christ Is All'
Colossians 3:11
… Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. See how he keeps putting that in—"Be you thankful"—"with thanksgiving." Why, that is the oil that …
SERMON • SERMON 2474The Great Change
Hosea 14:8
… One cause for this great change is the sense of answered prayer: Ephraim shall say, "What have I to do anymore with idols?" And God says of Ephraim …
SERMON • SERMON 2395The Blessings of Public Worship
Luke 18:10
… But, though we pray in the closet—though we get into such a habit of prayer and are so full of the spirit of prayer that we can …
SERMON • SERMON 3408Not Boasting, But Trusting
Ephesians 2:9
… To pray may be good or not, according to whether it is real prayer. To attend the House of God, or give alms to the poor may be …
SERMON • SERMON 2482An Unparalleled Cure
Matthew 9:32
… He could not speak and he could not hear others speak, so the Savior, though He perceived no faith in him, and no prayer could come from him …
SERMON • SERMON 3397A Timely Expostulation
Luke 24:5
… I will chasten myself with fasting and much prayer." Or they have had recourse to vows of their own devising, instead of going straight away to Christ as …
SERMON • SERMON 122Christ About His Father’s Business
Luke 2:49
… Thank you, I do my praying alone mostly. I see what it is. If I thought you had the spirit of prayer, and it had been the proper …
SERMON • SERMON 2338The Crisis Of This World
John 12:31-33
… What a prayer! Jesus swallows up His temptation to escape the cup by this all-absorbing petition, "Father, glorify Your name." 28. 29. Then came there a voice …
SERMON • SERMON 3413God's Mercy Going Before
Psalm 59:10
… But do you not remember when those desires began to assume the form of prayer—when you got some light as to the way of salvation and desired …
SERMON • SERMON 2582Alto and Bass
Luke 1:53
… Praise is the end of prayer and preaching. It is the ear of the wheat: it is God's harvest from all the seed of Grace that He …
SERMON • SERMON 3222'The Lamb of God'
John 1:29
… Jesus Christ." And when you have done that, you will soon get to praying. I think it is stated in McCheyne's life, that after an earnest sermon …
SERMON • SERMON 2801A Fear to Be Desired
Hosea 3:5
… So, my prayer is that I may never cease to feel this holy fear before God and that I may never get to fancy, for a moment, that …
SERMON • SERMON 3028God's Glory Our Rereward
Isaiah 58:8
… I can scarcely pray in the Prayer Meeting to edification. I hope I love the Lord and that I am one of the stones in the walls of …
SERMON • SERMON 3411Joining the Church
2 Corinthians 8:5
… Have all of us who are professors that we are Christ's disciples really given ourselves to the Lord? Are there not in this House of Prayer some …
SERMON • SERMON 1227Spiritual Appetite
Proverbs 27:7
… When a man loathes Christ he finds prayer to be bondage and if he carries it on at all, it is a very dull exercise, yielding no enjoyment …
SERMON • SERMON 3545Our Glorious Leader
Luke 19:28
… Many a time a man will come up to the House of Prayer, and he has a trouble that has been plowing up and down, and the minister …
SERMON • SERMON 1129The Heart Of Flesh
Ezekiel 36:26
… Let our prayer be— "Quick as the apple of an eye, O God, my conscience make. Awake my soul when sin is near, And keep it still awake …
SERMON • SERMON 2226"Lay Hold on Eternal Life!"
1 Timothy 6:12
… life! Is it not so in praying? Is there not much that passes by the name which is not real prayer? We might often say, "Get to the …
SERMON • SERMON 3368Fathomless
Psalm 36:6
… He does not say to every man, or even to every praying man, "I will give you the desires of your heart," but, "Delight yourself in the Lord …