Prayer

Praying And Waiting

1 John 5:13-15

… Besides, the man who has faith in Christ and knows himself to be saved has already received answers to prayer! And answers to prayer are some of the …

Greater Things Yet Who Shall See Them?

John 1:50

… Many more are very slack in prayer and, therefore, they starve their souls. Many angels must go up if many are to come down! Prayer must be constant …

Prayer 16 — He Ever Liveth

… We have received a new life and the breath of that life is prayer. We have risen from the dead and we also make intercession through the life …

Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… Recomposing himself, he stepped aside and prayed—after which his sister laughingly said to him, "Brother, what is the good of praying about a ring? Will praying bring …

Christ’s Prayer for His People

John 17:15

Christ’s Prayer for His People A Sermon (No. 47) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 21, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel …

Peace at Home, and Prosperity Abroad

Psalm 147:14

… When she is in health she is at work without her hands, praying with an her tongues, weeping with an her eyes, and agonizing with God in prayer …

The Comer’s Conflict with Satan

Luke 9:42

… It is no use to get praying simply. Prayer is good in itself, but that is not the way to get rid of Satan—it is thinking of …

The Minstrelsy of Hope

Psalm 67:6

… We are sure to receive the benediction from God when the entire Church is instant and constant in intercession. Prayer is the best resort of an earnest people …

Even Now

John 11:22

… prayer is, "Lord, I believe; help You my unbelief!" The point upon which Martha chiefly rested, when she expressed her faith, was the power of Christ in intercession …

Praise for Jesus

Genesis 49:8

… The first was the eloquence and prevalence of his intercession. Judah seems to have been the gifted one out of the 12 sons of Jacob, and his pleading …

The Absent Pastor’s Care for his Flock

… When it is well with you, pray for me, and let this be your prayer,—that I may return to you ‘in the fulness of the blessing of …

The Threshing Floor of Ornan

1 Chronicles 21:28

… But why was the threshing floor of Ornan to be the meeting place of David with his God and the spot where prayer was to be heard? Certainly …

The Saint and the Spirit

John 14:17

… for He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God." What delightful praying it is when the Holy Spirit indites the prayer so that we …

Our Lord's Prayer for His People's Sanctification

John 17:17

… In this wonderful prayer, our Lord, as our great High Priest, appears to enter upon that perpetual office of intercession which he is now exercising at the right …

The Holy Spirit in Connection with Our Ministry

… of supplications, who maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. A very important part of our lives consists in praying in the Holy Ghost …

The Priest Ordained by the Oath of God

Hebrews 7:20-22

… How can there be any successor to Him since He has an endless life and in the power of that endless life always lives to make intercession for …

The Long Pastorate Commenced, 1854

… gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer-meetings in New Park Street that moved our very souls. Every man …

Peter After His Restoration

Luke 22:32

… where Jesus has gone before you with His intercession. Jesus has made provision for all your future in a prayer already presented—"I have prayed for you." You …

With the King for His Work!

1 Chronicles 4:23

… prayer. It is wonderful how quickly it sprouts and what a deal of vitality it manifests if you soak it! The dry seed—dry teaching without any praying …

Question 24: How does Christ execute the office of a priest?

Heb 9:28; Heb 2:17; Heb 7:25

… satisfy divine justice, # Heb 9:28 and to reconcile us to God, # Heb 2:17 and in making continual intercession for us. # Heb 7:25 Topic No. 05925

Faith Seeing God's Glory

John 11:40

… Perhaps even worse than this is the case you have been praying for—the case of one who actually denies and flouts the religion of Jesus Christ, who …

The Superlative Excellence Of The Holy Spirit

John 16:7

… prayer to themselves, scarcely loud enough to be heard, "Do Lord! Do! Grant it! Hear it!" That is a kind of praying which I love in Prayer Meetings …

The Christian's Motto

John 8:29

… The intercession of Jesus, also, is always sweet with God. The Father always hears Him—and hears us, also, when we plead His name. And when He shall …

Noah's Faith, Fear, Obedience, and Salvation

Hebrews 11:7

… quite as much as for praying, and singing, and preaching. We want faith on the market as well as in the prayer-meeting. We wish everywhere to please …

Encouragements To Prayer

Psalm 81:10

… How can you be praying on a right scale if you are always praying straitened in yourselves? O dear Friends, the promises of God are not narrow! They …

Singing in the Ways of the Lord

Psalm 138:5

… We heard of a man in Boston, in America, praying such a grand prayer that the newspapers said, the next day, that it was, "the finest prayer that …

Christ in the Covenant

Isaiah 49:8

… Now prayer one prayer, and verily I say unto thee, one sincere prayer shall most assuredly prove that he will save thee. One true groan, where God has …

A Word for the Persecuted

1 Samuel 20:10

… I think it was Erskine who used to say, ‘Lord, deliver me from a sleepy devil’; and truly it is a prayer well worth praying. When everything goes …

Grace For Grace

1 Corinthians 2:12

… Our praying does not turn the heart of God to love us but proves that we are turning to love Him. It is because He is gracious that …

"Out Of The Depths"

Psalm 40:12

… you can be in your praying, the better. If your boy were to come in, tomorrow morning, and take out a prayer book and proceed to read the …

An Earnest Warning about Lukewarmness

… Perhaps its best men were dead, perhaps its wealth seduced it into worldliness, possibly its freedom from persecution engendered carnal ease, or neglect of prayer made it gradually …

March 9 — PRAYER FOR PEACE

Jer. 29:7

… Specially should our nation and our city be blest by our constant intercession. An earnest prayer for your country and other countries is well becoming in the mouth …

June 25 — A STAIRCASE TO HEAVEN

John 1:51

… Between earth and Heaven there is a holy commerce; prayer ascends, and answers come down, by the way of Jesus, the Mediator. We see this ladder when we …

The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ

John 16:14

… Let us employ this text as an excitement to earnest prayer. We as a Church, and I may speak freely for my own flock, we long to see …

The Present Crisis

Hosea 5:15

… Prayer is therefore desired and well it may be! But by some, prayer is desired as if it were quite certain that if certain pious words are repeated …

Plain Words With the Careless

Luke 8:28

… I do hope many of the people of God have been praying that a blessing may come. My own soul keeps praying as I speak. O that the …

Morning, April 4

2Co 5:21

… again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” Christian, let thy heart rejoice, for thou art “accepted in the beloved …

Morning, January 4

2Pe 3:18

… As you grow downward in humility, seek also to grow upward —having nearer approaches to God in prayer and more intimate fellowship with Jesus. May God the Holy …

A Bold Challenge Justified

Romans 8:34

… Did you ever pray a prayer that you could not have wept over afterwards? Have you ever preached a sermon with which you could feel content? Is not …

Morning, November 22

Ho 12:12

… all night he was in prayer wrestling for his people. One night Peter must be pleaded for; anon, another claims his tearful intercession. No shepherd sitting beneath the …