Prayer

Israel And Britain. A Note of Warning

John 12:37-41

… the power of it; what does this mean? If you are not a praying people, nor a holy people, and yet you are a professing people, what an …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Ephesians 1:13

… While you were praying, some one word in the text seemed to lift itself right out of the connection, and shone upon you like a star! And in …

A Lesson from the Life of King Asa

2 Chronicles 16:9

… Read attentively that earnest believing prayer which he offered. "And Asa cried unto the Lord his God and said, Lord, it is nothing with You to help, whether …

Open Praise and Public Confession

Psalm 138:1-3

… habit of praying to God and who is in the habit of having answers to his prayers—the man who lives a life of prayer and consequently who …

"All the Day Long"

Proverbs 23:17

… Night has fallen around us and we are home with our families—let us not forget to close the day with family prayer and private prayer as we …

The Warnings and the Rewards of the Word of God

Psalm 19:11

… Christ seems praying over us every day as we read the Scripture, "I pray not that You should take them out of the world, but that You should …

The Lesson of the Almond Tree

Jeremiah 1:11

… Prayer must, however, be mingled with praise, for prayer and praise make up the breath of the Christian life. Have I not often reminded you that we breathe …

A God Ready to Pardon

Nehemiah 9:17

… a kind of work— salvation is by believing, not by praying. If faith be mixed with thy prayer, then wilt thou succeed. Believing is essential, and if thou …

The Blood of Sprinkling (Second Sermon.)

Hebrews 12:24

… But see how the great Father bears with you! He stands prepared to hear your prayer, to accept your confession of sin, to honor your faith, and to …

Dead, Yet Alive

Romans 6:11

… I have been specially praying for the guidance of the Holy Spirit in handling a subject which belongs not so much to the worshippers in the outer court …

Everlasting Love Revealed

Jeremiah 31:3

… He has shown Himself through the lattices—"The Lord has appeared." Hundreds in this House of Prayer can each one say, without doubt or hesitation, "The Lord has …

The High Rock

Psalm 61:2

… The first is, that prayer is always available— ' 'From the end of the earth will I cry unto You, when my heart is overwhelmed." The second Truth is …

The King's Mowings

Amos 7:1

… for You loved Me before the foundation of the world." And this prayer has fixed the saints' abode! We shall enter into no question, now, about whether Heaven …

Our Service For Christ Never Finished

Luke 17:7-10

… There is a prayer put into verse, that you and I may constantly offer— "Dismiss me not Your service, Lord!" Suppose that He had dismissed us and said …

God's Tender Mercy

Luke 1:78

… I have been praying for a long while, but my prayers still remain unanswered. I cannot get any peace! I wish I could. I have been trying to …

Unmitigated Prosperity

Isaiah 53:10

… and at the bottom of it lay a Bible, with a mother's prayer written in it. He took it out, and as he read it, God spoke …

Sorrow at the Cross Turned into Joy

John 16:20-22

… Do not wish to be deprived of it—it will be the means of your loving them more, praying more for them and seeking more their good—and …

Grace Reviving Israel

Hosea 14:5-7

… Are you men of prayer, and women of prayer? Alas! some of you may use a form of prayer, but it hath no life in it. You ask …

'The True Sayings of God'

Revelation 19:9

… not let your praying be a mere ecclesiastical or religious engagement! Go to God as your Father and your Friend, fully convinced that your prayer will be answered …

To Sunday School Teachers And Other Soul-winners

James 5:19

… young men and women." He intended that it should be a subject of prayer and earnest endeavor that children, as children, should be converted to God! The conversion …

War! War! War!

1 Samuel 18:17

… I am sure that we shall think far more of the interests of religion than of anything else, and our prayer will be, “O Lord, do what thou …

Christ's Love for His Vineyard

Solomon 8:12

… The church is so badly off, the congregation is so small, there is such an absence of zeal and so very feeble has the spirit of prayer become …

God Justified, Though Man Believes Not

Romans 3:3

… to you and, in forma pauperis, ask you to accept Christ—begging and praying you to take Christ because otherwise He will be a loser by you. It …

Our Banner

Psalm 60:4

… They might leave the baggage for a while—they might forsake the smaller flags of the divisions—but the great blood-red banner that with prayer had been …

Love to Jesus the Great Test

John 8:42

… So I leave the first very weighty point, praying God, the Holy Spirit, to press it upon the hearts of all who have no affection for the Savior …

Open House For All Comers

Luke 15:2

… dim and blind? He is constantly telling us of a vainglorious Pharisee whose prayer is a mass of reeking pride. And of a penitent Publican whose humble cry …

Shame Leading to Salvation

Psalm 83:16

… Hence the prayer, "Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O Lord." I have known shame to drive men to God in various ways …

Fencing the Table

1 Corinthians 11:28

… I have been conversing with my praying father. I have had sweet fellowship, just lately, with a good old Christian friend—and they all seem perfectly satisfied with …

Iconoclast

2 Kings 18:4

… We must in prayer cry for the Spirit of God, and all our confidence must be placed in Him. For oratory is but a sounding brass and a …

'Oh, How He Loves!'

John 11:36

… And His constant prayer is, "Father, I will that they, also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My Glory …

The Fullness of Jesus the Treasury of Saints

John 1:16

… be turned into darkness and the moon into blood—but NEVER shall a praying, trusting sinner be cast away from the Presence of God! O come, then, you …

Israel's Cry and God's Answer

… Now you have gone further than that, for you have begun to cry and in prayer to God, you pour out your very soul! Perhaps—and that is …

An Urgent Request for an Immediate Answer

Genesis 24:49

… He believed that it was Rebekah, for he had put it before God in prayer—and in answer to his prayer she had come. She had done exactly …

"How Good to Those Who Seek!"

Lamentations 3:25

… And he not only does that morning and evening, but he is praying during most of the day! If you watch him from the other side of the …

Encouragement for the Depressed

Zechariah 4:10

… not a single grain of ability, either in the way of doing, or praying, or giving, or holy living! Spend and be spent, for who has despised the …

More and More

James 4:6

… If you do but go and seek from Him, He gives what none others can give—He gives more Grace! Oh, for the agony of prayer that will …

All Joy in All Trials

James 1:2-4

… If in temptation you cry to God in prayer that you may keep your garment unspotted, and He helps you to do so, then also are you sure …

Gospel Missions

Acts 13:49

… Now, where is our prayerfulness compared with theirs? I trust that we know something of the power of prayer here, but I do not think we pray like …

The Sunday-School Teacher—A Steward

Luke 16:2

… I did it without prayer; I did it without the help of the Holy Spirit.” Then, my brother and sister, I hope you will add after that, “Oh …

The Model Soul-winner

John 4:7

… He that hears prayer, Himself prays! He that listens to the cries of His redeemed and, with the fullness of His majestic bounty, opens His hands and supplies …