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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 2545The 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 2580Partnership 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 1850Immeasurable 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 1669Teaching 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 1101An 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 1426The 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 919The 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 202The 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 989A 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 514Tell 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 2559Co-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 2415The 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 543Once 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 604The 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 1433An 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 2925Reasons 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 1730A 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 296A 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 475Self-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 391The 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 566General 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 2132Christ 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 2583Rain 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 1498Mistrust 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 1444The 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 477Never! 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 1720Christ 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 2440Faithful 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 3084Paul'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 987Marah; 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 2464The 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 1811The 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 257The 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 2601Small 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 2809Faith—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 481A 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 2535A 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 2430Christians, 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 …