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Shut In Or Shut Out
Genesis 7:16
… He cries as for his very life that God would save his father! Some among us never pray in the Prayer Meeting without strong crying and tears for …
SERMON • SERMON 461Am I Clear Of His Blood?
Genesis 4:10
… Some of you young people have come to London and God has met with you in this House of Prayer. You still have ungodly parents in the country …
SERMON • SERMON 947Seeking For Jesus
John 6:24
… A prayer will reach Him, a wish will find Him, a groan will pierce His heart—do but confide in Him and He is yours. The first command …
SERMON • SERMON 1062Why Am I Thus?
Romans 7:22
… in prayer and then with a peevish fretful temper you will inwardly murmur, if you do not actually say, you might as well give up praying such prayers …
SERMON • SERMON 2205"My Times Are In Your Hand"
Psalm 31:15
… Wisdom by prayer. Console yourself with Infinite Love by fellowship with God. Tell the Lord what you feel and what you fear. Ten minutes' praying is better than …
SERMON • SERMON 2612Questions and Answers Concerning Zion
Isaiah 14:32
… love Him, too." Therefore, tell all who are in the world about it, praying God's Spirit to open their hearts that they may receive the message and …
SERMON • SERMON 1929To Those Who Are Angry With Their Godly Friends
Genesis 4:6
… A converted daughter, a praying son, a holy husband, a gracious wife—why, these are the pillars, the ornaments, the buttresses of the house! Godly people hedge the …
SERMON • SERMON 2483The Objective of Christ's Death
Galatians 1:4
… See the plaintive power of this prayer of a tender heart. First, our Lord shows His love by praying for us and then by dying for us. Notice …
SERMON • SERMON 1358All the People at Work for Jesus
… selected for the Prayer Meeting and so they cannot attend. Dining is a most important business—it would seem to be more important than praying! Businessmen are so …
SERMON • SERMON 2641God's Heart the Source of All Blessing
2 Samuel 7:21
… And Solomon, the son of David, in whose reign there was no war, must have the honor of raising the great House of Prayer in the name of …
SERMON • SERMON 2761The Free Agency of Christ
Mark 8:22-25
… The Lord has promised to hear prayer, but He has not promised that you shall know that He has heard your prayer! A godly mother may be in …
SERMON • SERMON 917Precious, Honorable, Beloved
Isaiah 43:4
… If some great noble were to come into this House of Prayer, how many of you would be glad to give him the best seat, and yet he …
SERMON • SERMON 2485Love's Vigilance Rewarded
Solomon 3:4
… We cannot see Him, but yet He that walks amidst the golden candlesticks is, in spirit, in this House of Prayer at this moment. My Master, You are …
COMMENTARYPsalm 80
Psalm 80
… might nourish and strengthen confidence in prayer...Let us learn from this example to feed and fortify our confidence in praying to God, with the marks of that …
SERMON • SERMON 2385Another Lesson From Manasseh's Life
2 Chronicles 33:10
… That is the best sort of prayer in all the world, when there are no words, but in silence there is a panting and longing after God! We …
SERMON • SERMON 1274For the Sick and Afflicted
Job 34:31
… It is good to be always dissatisfied with ourselves, and pressing forward to a something yet beyond; always praying that in us Christ's likeness may be completely …
SERMON • SERMON 2453A Hard Case
Job 33:14-18
… That prayer of the meanest man mentioned in the whole Bible is one which I have often heard quoted with commendation. That wicked wretch of a Balaam, after …
SERMON • SERMON 2524Fearing and Hoping
Psalm 147:11
… fashion, to be always afraid of yourself, fearful to begin the day without praying, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil," never indulging in self …
SERMON • SERMON 2556Life Proved by Love
1 John 3:14
… The act of prayer is good, the habit of prayer is good, but to have the spiritof prayer always with us so that we as naturally pray as …
SERMON • SERMON 1064Salvation All of Grace
Ephesians 2:8
… When we are praying and pleading we sometimes feel we need a help to guide us in the pleading. Let this guide you. Take care that all your …
SERMON • SERMON 1818The Song of a City, and the Pearl of Peace
Isaiah 26:3
… Better still, there is a sweet peace between the heart and its God when from day to day, by prayer and praise, we commune with the Most High …
SERMON • SERMON 511Pentecost
Acts 2:1-4
… They had all been praying. Read the first chapter and you will perceive that they had been much in prayer. The whole of the time since the ascent …
SERMON • SERMON 472Believers—Lights In The World
Philippians 2:14-16
… Surely, my Brothers and Sisters, you would desire this yourselves! I pray for it! Will you unite in desiring it and praying for it with me? It has …
SERMON • SERMON 592The True Position Of Assurance
Ephesians 1:13
… should bring afresh to the thoughts of all of you the duty of praying for those who are engaged in preaching the Word, for their preaching is nothing …
SERMON • SERMON 565The Great Liberator
John 8:36
… To yield obedience to our Lord, to offer prayer to God Most High is perfect freedom! But to confess my heart out to a mortal with a shaven …
SERMON • SERMON 642Withholding Corn
Proverbs 11:26
… And if any in this House of Prayer have been guilty of it, I pray you avoid the curse of the people and seek the blessing of the …
SERMON • SERMON 1977The Blind Beggar of the Temple and His Wonderful Cure
John 9:5
… Are you praying? He is listening. Has it scarcely got so far as a prayer? Is it but a desire? He is reading that desire. As it passes …
SERMON • SERMON 1025A Visit to the Harvest Field
James 5:7-8
… So if I suffer and expect the blessing for the suffering, I must spend solitary hours in my chamber seeking and searching; to wit, seeking in prayer, and …
SERMON • SERMON 568What God Cannot Do!
Titus 1:2
… praying for a certain thing for years? You pray, you pray, and you pray again, and now discouragement arises! Unbelief says, "God will not hear that prayer! That …
SERMON • SERMON 1778A Heavenly Pattern for Our Earthly Life
Matthew 6:10
… He that taught us this prayer used it himself in the most unrestricted sense. When the bloody sweat stood on his face, and all the fear and trembling …
SERMON • SERMON 1448Forgiveness Made Easy
Ephesians 4:82
… Let us touch thereon with thoughtfulness, praying the good Spirit to instruct us. “For Christ’s sake;” all the good things which God has bestowed upon us have …
SERMON • SERMON 1699Supposing Him to be the Gardener
John 20:15
… Another duty is that of valuing the Lord’s presence, and praying for it. We ought whenever the Sabbath morning dawns to pray our Well-beloved to come …
SERMON • SERMON 2495Defiled and Defiling
Haggai 2:13
… Presence? Is not much so-called praying just of that sort? It is an awful thing to repeat a form of prayer when your heart does not mean …
SERMON • SERMON 2343Faint—but Not Faint-Hearted
Judges 8:4
… enemy wants to prevent you from getting the blessing." Is the conflict concerning prayer? Have you been pleading for a soul and you have not yet won the …
SERMON • SERMON 651A Sermon From A Rush
Job 8:11-13
… He can pray, but not in secret, and the essence and soul of prayer he never knew. He has never wrestled with the angel, never sighed and cried …
SERMON • SERMON 1441The Prosperous Man's Reminder
Hosea 13:5-8
… Ah, you remember it, now, and you acknowledge that you then turned to God in real earnest, for you had nowhere else to turn! What times of prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 1564Desires Towards God—a Sermon For The Weak
Psalm 38:9
… Prayer without desire is dead—its soul has fled, it is but the carcass of prayer. When desire is burning in the soul, it sends up the flame …
SERMON • SERMON 2541'Mr. Moody's Text'
Isaiah 12:2
… Oh, for more of them—not prayer without praise, nor praise without prayer! Prayer and praise, like the two horses in Pharaoh's chariot, make our Christian life …
SERMON • SERMON 2365"Goodness, as a Morning Cloud"
2 Chronicles 24:2
… There is a prayer that I recommend to everyone as I desire to use it myself, "Lord, let me know the very worst of my case! Do not …
SERMON • SERMON 2480The Tender Grapes
Solomon 2:13
… Now you see that he tries to get alone for private prayer as often as he can. He may not have the privilege of a room to himself …