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The Top of the Ladder
Ephesians 3:19
… THIS is a part of Paul's prayer for the Ephesian believers. It is the closing clause and consummation of it. It mentions the grandest gift for which …
SERMON • SERMON 747'Make This Valley Full of Ditches'
2 Kings 3:16-18
… are praying for a husband or a wife. God has never blessed your husband or wife, but He has remembered others out of regard to your prayer, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1743A Loving Entreaty
Isaiah 43:26
… Perhaps you offer a form of prayer, but that is nothing if your heart does not go with the words. This is rather to mock God than truly …
SERMON • SERMON 1931One More Cast of the Great Net
Joel 2:32
… Well, you can bleat and thus call for the Shepherd! Prayer—real, sincere, believing prayer will never fail! The Lord has said, "Call upon Me in the day …
SERMON • SERMON 2325The Far-off, Near—the Near, Far Off
Matthew 2:1-4
… the thousands of Israel present, tonight, to pray that prayer? You cannot tell for whom you are praying, but you need not know. There may be persons here …
SERMON • SERMON 3037Christians Kept From Sin
1 Samuel 25:32
… Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the …
SERMON • SERMON 2867The Life-look
Isaiah 45:22
… In like manner, I do not find fault with prayer or the reading of the Scriptures—God forbid! But I do complain of putting prayer and the reading …
SERMON • SERMON 366The Silver Trumpet
Isaiah 1:18
… Come now; the Church is praying for you. These are revival times—ministers are more in earnest—God's people are more anxious. Come now— "Lest slighted once …
SERMON • SERMON 2934Great Changes
Luke 13:30
… This is an unimportant matter compared with praying with the heart, but when the heart is full of prayer, it is often very helpful to be able to …
SERMON • SERMON 1701Gladness For Sadness
Psalm 90:15-17
… in prayer to God, for surely never did a man turn to God but the Lord also turned to Him! If we are set a-praying, we may …
SERMON • SERMON 1752Mourners, Inquirers, Covenanters
Jeremiah 50:4
… A truly praying heart is jealous of its own prayer, lest it should ask amiss. Probably no prayer is more sincere than that which is followed by deep …
SERMON • SERMON 820Working Out What is Worked In
Philippians 2:12
… Yes, our life must be spent in constant watching, and, as we find ourselves tripping, we must add constant repentance—perpetually praying to be upheld for the future …
SERMON • SERMON 3151The Lord's Supper—simple But Sublime!
1 Corinthians 11:25
… If ever any man might have lived without prayer, it was our Lord Jesus Christ! His Humanity was perfect, yet He abounded in prayer. And the nearer we …
SERMON • SERMON 2893An Instructive Truth
Jeremiah 10:23
… In what he considers a difficult matter, the wise Christian always has resort to God in prayer—but when he gets what he regards as a very simple …
SERMON • SERMON 2871Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision
Luke 12:29
… Now look at the next verse in the light of the prayer David had been praying. See what a marvelous act of faith and what a grand result …
SERMON • SERMON 165The Warning Neglected
Ezekiel 33:5
… present—I would ask of every Christian that he would lift up a prayer to God, that the service may be blessed; and I ask of every other …
SERMON • SERMON 977The Master’s Profession—The Disciple’s Pursuit
Psalm 40:9
… if he perished it was not for want of preaching to or for praying over; my warnings and tears were never spared. I did what was in me …
SERMON • SERMON 2382The Holy Spirit's Chief Office
John 16:14
… To what higher ends can we devote ourselves, than to something to which God the Holy Spirit devotes Himself? Be this, then, your continual prayer, "Blessed Spirit, help …
SERMON • SERMON 3445Strong Faith in a Faithful God
Psalm 57:2
… style of praying he adopted—as a child cries—the natural expression of pain. Poor man, he did not know how to pray a fine prayer and he …
SERMON • SERMON 1986The Child Of Light Walking In Light
1 John 1:6
… We know what we are praying about and there is no question as to the deep sincerity of our cries and tears. We desire with the whole force …
SERMON • SERMON 1654"At Your Word"
Luke 5:5
… down their nets, in vain, perhaps, in the form of importunate prayer. Have you been praying for the conversion of a relative, or pleading for some other good …
SERMON • SERMON 2853Observing the King's Word
1 Kings 20:33
… Therefore, go at once to God in prayer and say to Him, "Lord, You have sent me this precious message of hope both in the Bible and by …
SERMON • SERMON 1621The Ark of the Covenant
Jeremiah 3:16
… Sisters who have been accustomed to that style of praying chide us for our boldness and familiarity in prayer. They think we are presumptuous in drawing so near …
SERMON • SERMON 290The Inexhaustible Barrel
1 Kings 17:16
… Glory be unto the God of Israel!” I think I see her praying as she went:—“Oh, Lord, shut not up the bowels of thy compassion. Thou hast …
SERMON • SERMON 542Paul—His Cloak And His Books
2 Timothy 4:13
… You can do for Christ's sake mighty things through faith and prayer, but never let prayer and faith be prostituted to so base a purpose as to …
SERMON • SERMON 333Three Homilies From One Text
Matthew 4:23-25
… perhaps, by any visible means—but some other person praying for that man and God heard that prayer and so that soul was saved. Have you any sick …
SERMON • SERMON 2358The Unchangeable Christ
Hebrews 13:8
… by prayer. You cannot tell how much of blessing will come to your own souls through the ministry if you are in the habit of praying about it …
SERMON • SERMON 1855What is the Verdict?
1 John 3:21
… If you are right with God, your prayer will be, "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there …
SERMON • SERMON 231Faith in Perfection
Psalm 138:8
… Mark, my friends, in the text, that a genuine confidence in God does not lead us to give up prayer, but leads us to prayer. “The Lord will …
SERMON • SERMON 1823Peter's Blunder—a Lesson for Ourselves
Acts 10:14
… the points at which you must set a double guard of watching and praying lest you be led into temptation by those special features of your character. Kindly …
SERMON • SERMON 2348The Lord Leading—David Following
2 Samuel 5:24
… The Christ—to what did He go? To slumber and idleness? No, but to incessant service— "Cold mountain, and tie midnighit air Witnessed tie fervor of His prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 1607The Swiftly Running Word
Psalms 147:15
… Our prayer should be, "Give me understanding according to Your Word." His Word is also spoken in the form of promises rich and free and gracious, the Word …
SERMON • SERMON 2200The Covenant Promise of the Spirit
Ezekiel 36:27
… Every true prayer must be "praying in the Holy Spirit." He helps our infirmities in prayer. Even the hearing of the Word of the Lord is of the …
SERMON • SERMON 345Self-Sufficiency Slain
John 15:5
… one day at prayer in the pulpit, praying to God that He would make him a useful minister. When he had finished his prayer, he was stone blind …
SERMON • SERMON 1269The New Fashion
Mark 2:12
… We ought to come to the preaching of the Word of God praying, "Lord, teach me! Blessed Spirit guide me into all Truth. Let me see a doctrine …
SERMON • SERMON 575The Pierced One Pierces The Heart
Zechariah 12:10
… Though He is not in labor, but simply in the exercise of prayer, a sweat comes streaming from every pore—not the common sweat of men who toil …
SERMON • SERMON 1182A Singular Title and a Special Favor
Psalm 59:10
… Notice how the Lord's prayer runs—"Our Father which are in Heaven," but if we would repeat the Apostles' Creed, we must not say "we believe in …
SERMON • SERMON 1783Pentecost
Acts 2:1
… We need it on all we are, and have and do! The Israelites brought the two loaves of leavened bread, praying the Lord to bless all the other …
SERMON • SERMON 2596Where Is the God of Elijah?
2 Kings 2:14
… wish that we always felt in prayer that we would never leave off praying till we found the God of prayer! I wish that, in our singing, we …
SERMON • SERMON 2401The Child of Light and the Works of Darkness
Ephesians 5:11
… life! Thus, beloved Brothers and Sisters Christ, I leave the text with you, praying God to bless it—"Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but …