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SERMON • SERMON 1236

The Best House-visitation

Mark 1:29-33

… The first effect that grace produced was, it led the family to prayer. The four friends have come in, and no sooner are they in than they begin …

SERMON • SERMON 2545

The Greatest Folly in the World

Romans 3:11

… If, therefore, I can link myself with God—if my heart desires to fulfill His purposes—if in prayer I seek His help and if, by faith, I …

SERMON • SERMON 2580

Partnership With Christ

1 Corinthians 1:9

… We enjoy that society when we draw near to God in prayer and, indeed, whenever we draw near to God at all! We dare not come to God …

SERMON • SERMON 1850

Immeasurable Love

John 3:16

… never able to sheathe my sword, nor cease from prayer and watchfulness. I cannot advance an inch without praying my way, nor keep the inch I gain without …

SERMON • SERMON 1669

Teaching for the Outer and Inner Circles

Mark 4:33

… what we greatly need! I find it good, in devotion, occasionally to cease praying and look up, gazing into the invisible. The heart kindles into admiration of the …

SERMON • SERMON 1101

An Old-Fashioned Conversion

Job 33:29

… They were very slow to say, "I have sinned," and were not at all inclined to prayer. Nothing but sharp discipline could bring them to their senses and …

SERMON • SERMON 1426

The Lifting Up of the Bowed Down

Luke 13:10-13

… will pray the same prayer with you for the Divine power." All Christians are thorough Calvinists when they come to singing and praying! But it is a pity …

SERMON • SERMON 919

The King Feasting in his Garden

Solomon 5:1

… thought that poor wordless prayer of yours was never heard, but Jesus gathered it, and called it spice. And when some Brother was praying aloud, and in silence …

SERMON • SERMON 202

The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus

Acts 26:14

… Oh, how roving was he in his tenderness! Remember that prayer of his when the iron was piercing his hand—“Father, forgive them.” You never heard him, all …

SERMON • SERMON 989

A Last Look-Out

2 Timothy 4:6

… Is not Christ in heaven praying that we may be with him where he is? Are there not the saints in heaven, of whom it is said, they …

SERMON • SERMON 514

Tell It All

Mark 5:33

… elsewhere. "Well," one says, "would that be praying?" Yes, dear Brother! Yes, dear Sister, that is the soul of prayer—to tell Him all the truth. We cannot …

SERMON • SERMON 2559

Co-workers With God

Psalm 127:1

… If I wish to be a man of learning, I cannot get it simply by praying for it—I must study, even to the weariness of the flesh …

SERMON • SERMON 2415

The Believer's Heritage of Joy

Psalm 119:111

… What a prayer that is! Store it up for use, dear Friend! Carry it home with you. That is the kind of prayer to be prayed on the …

SERMON • SERMON 543

Once A Curse But Now A Blessing

Zechariah 8:13

… I trust that mistake has been discovered and that there are many now anxiously praying for the restoration of the glory unto Israel. But too many are still …

SERMON • SERMON 604

The Man With The Measuring Line

Zechariah 2:1-5

… We have pleaded the name of Jesus even unto tears and God does not answer prayer if He does not send us a blessing! We have used His …

SERMON • SERMON 1433

An Anxious Enquiry for a Beloved Son

2 Samuel 18:29

… However dear they are to you, and however great their peril, there is One that ruleth and overruleth; and quiet prayer has more power with him than impatient …

SERMON • SERMON 2925

Reasons For Doubting Christ

Matthew 14:31

… For if His disciples are in a storm, so long as Christ is praying for them, all the storms in the world are unable to sink them! They …

SERMON • SERMON 1730

A Cure For Unsavory Meats—or, Salt for the White of an Egg

Job 6:6

… Why, those men who have now gone to Heaven, whom you used to hear, seemed to be praying while they preached! Their sermons were devotions as well as …

SERMON • SERMON 296

A Revival Sermon

Amos 9:13

… They have a prayer-meeting every morning before the boat starts, and another prayer-meeting after she comes to port; and on Sundays, when they lay-to off …

SERMON • SERMON 475

Self-Delusion

Luke 13:24

… Not that their lives were inconsistent, but they had no spiritual life—no care for souls, no love for Christ, no private prayer, no secret fellowship with Him …

SERMON • SERMON 391

The First Resurrection

Revelation 20:4

… Die, Sinner, and flight from Hell becomes impossible—you are lost eternally! Oh, while yet you are on praying ground, I pray you, think on your end. "Because …

SERMON • SERMON 566

General And Yet Particular

John 17:2

… And when we come before the Lord in prayer this should encourage us much, that our heavenly Father has already given us all things in giving us His …

SERMON • SERMON 2132

Christ Put On

Romans 13:14

… This is our preaching gown, our praying surplice, our pastoral robe— the Character and Spirit of the Lord Jesus—and it admirably suits each form of service! No …

SERMON • SERMON 2583

Rain and Grace—a Parallel

Job 38:25-27

… It is the source of the Church's energy and if public prayer is neglected, or if private prayer is slackened, or if family prayer is held back …

SERMON • SERMON 2206

"Am I A Sea, Or A Whale?"

Job 7:12

… He does not read his Bible and yet Scripture rises in his memory! It is long since he bent his knee in prayer—he has almost forgotten what …

SERMON • SERMON 1498

Mistrust of God Deplored and Denounced

Numbers 14:11

… the regular meeting of a few people for a Praying Meeting in which there is no real prayer; and the regular revolution of a spiritual barrel organ, from …

SERMON • SERMON 1444

The Moral of a Miracle

Mark 11:22

… The next hint the Savior gives us is to be much in prayer, because it is by prayer that faith exercises itself unto God. "What things soever you …

SERMON • SERMON 477

Never! Never! Never! Never! Never!

Hebrews 13:5

… God never can forsake a praying people, nor cast off a laboring Church; he must bless us even to the end. 3. The third occasion upon which this …

SERMON • SERMON 1720

Christ in You

Colossians 1:27

… keep clear of this folly! Let us rest content with the old food, praying from day to day, "Lord, evermore give us this bread." May it never happen …

SERMON • SERMON 2440

Faithful Stewardship

1 Corinthians 4:2

… And some preaching seems to me just like that! The preacher assumes, in his opening prayer, that all his hearers are converted, and the whole service goes on …

SERMON • SERMON 3084

Paul's Parenthesis

1 Corinthians 15:10

… For instance, the parenthesis of prayer. When we are engaged in any duty, it will not delay us—really we shall make all the better speed—if we …

SERMON • SERMON 987

Marah; or, The Bitter Waters Sweetened

Exodus 15:23-25

… In all trials, the surest way to a remedy is prayer. In heavenly pharmacy, prayer is a catholicon; it healeth all things. Prayer, which overcomes heaven, will certainly …

SERMON • SERMON 2464

The Power of a Sigh

Psalm 12:5

… Here we have both a prayer and a resolve; but the resolution grew out of the prayer and was connected with it. The Psalmist prays to God to …

SERMON • SERMON 1811

The Road to Honor

1 Samuel 2:30

… Yet, as he wrestled with the Angel in mighty prayer, the Lord gave him the wrestler's name of honor. And as he trusted in the Lord, even …

SERMON • SERMON 257

The Scales of Judgment

Daniel 5:27

… Apart, let us seek our chambers of praying again and again, “Lord renew me: Lord forgive me: Lord accept me.” And whilst, mayhap, the tempest which is now …

SERMON • SERMON 2601

Small Things Not to Be Despised

Zechariah 4:10

… They begin to pray, but, oh, what strange prayer it is! Some of them repeat a form of prayer they learned a long while ago which is quite …

SERMON • SERMON 2809

Faith—life

Habakkuk 2:4

… Now, no Christian can live without prayer— without praise—without feeding upon the Word of God. Nobody ought to attempt to do that, but if any man should …

SERMON • SERMON 481

A Drama in Five Acts

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

… A minister stood his side praying with him; let us trust that his soul found peace with God! But O the terror of his position; well might he …

SERMON • SERMON 2535

A Singular Plea in Prayer

Psalm 41:4

… but I wish that this prayer might get into each one of their hearts—"Lord, be merciful unto me." Keep on praying it until you obtain the mercy …

SERMON • SERMON 2430

Christians, and Their Communion With God

Isaiah 26:8

… I believe that God's people love prayer because it is one of the ways in which God meets with them. You love the House of Prayer and …