Prayer

A Woman of a Sorrowful Spirit

1 Samuel 1:15

… We cannot raise any question about the sincerity of her prayer, or the prevalence of it. We do not doubt, for a moment, the truthfulness of her consecration …

Martha And Mary

Luke 10:38-42

… Brethren, where mere work is prized, and the inner life forgotten, prayer comes to be at a discount. The committee is attended, but the Prayer Meeting forsaken. The …

The Believer's Glad Prospects

Song 2:17

… A PRAYER PRESENTED. "Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved, and be You like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains …

The Joy of Holy Households

Psalm 118:15

… But it should never fail to sound forth in the daily gatherings for family prayer I t should be a happy occasion when we meet to read the …

The Child Of Light Walking In Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… No weapon remains except that of All-Prayer. To walk on all through the night and not to see a step before you is anxious work—and yet …

Love's Medicines and Miracles

Isaiah 38:17

… HEZEKIAH'S recovery is a notable encouragement to prayer. If ever there was a case in the world where it seemed impossible that prayer could be of any …

Earth's Vanities and Heaven's Verities

Psalm 39:6-8

… I will not waste this present time and live as if this world were all, but I will lift up my prayer, tonight, and say, Now, Lord. Now …

The Pastors' College

… Much prayer is made by the Church that this end may be accomplished, nor has the prayer been in vain, for some 330 men are now declaring the …

Psalm 55

Psalm 55

… I can no more believe him to be frequent and spiritual in ejaculatory prayer, who neglects the season of solemn prayer, than I can believe that he keeps …

The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith

Job 23:6

… You think sin is a trifle! You suppose that one brief prayer will wipe it all away. You dream that by attendance at your churches and at your …

God Our Continual Resort

Psalm 71:3

… When he is either hurried or sleepy, he forces from himself the tax of a minute or two in prayer. But he that loves the Lord delights to …

Tearful Sowing and Joyful Reaping

Psalm 126:6

… There is a conquering power in the heart's tears in prayer. You shall have what you desire when you desire it unto weeping. Take the anguish of …

Limiting God

Psalm 78:41

… We must always subjoin at the bottom of the prayer this heavenly postscript, “Father, deny this if it be most for thy glory.” Christ will have nothing to …

Travailing for Souls

Isaiah 66:8

… By degrees the individuals are drawn together by sacred affinity, and the prayer-meetings become very different. The brother who talked twenty minutes of what he called prayer …

In the Sunny South (Continued)

… He also took part in the united prayer-meetings in the first week of the year, and sometimes spoke upon the topic selected for the occasion. It is …

A Home for the Fatherless

… The Pastor’s own mind had been prepared by the Lord for such a proposal through a remarkable experience at the previous Monday evening prayer-meeting at the …

Prayer 4 — The All-Prevailing Plea

… Our Father, which art in heaven, next to this we would offer prayer for those who never think of Thee, who, though created by Thee, are strangers to …

The Believer Catechized

John 11:26

… Next, Martha believed that though her brother was dead, such was the efficacy of Christ's prayer that He could do something. She does not quite say what …

Psalm 134

Psalm 134

… It would be well to watch, but better still to be "watching unto prayer" and praise. When night settles down on a church the Lord has his watchers …

Consolation For The Despairing

Psalm 31:22

… He calls prayer, crying, and it is a very significant word. Crying is the language of pain—pain cannot cumber itself with letters and syllables and words—and …

Christ's Curate In Decapolis

Mark 5:17-19

… Here is an evil prayer—"Depart out of our coasts." He grants it. Here is a pious prayer—"Lord, let me be with You." "However Jesus suffered him …

The Sinner's Only Alternative

2 Kings 7:4

… O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. "You are a prayer-hearing God. Did You not hear Jacob at the …

Lydia, the First European Convert

Acts 16:14

… They only held a Prayer Meeting—"where prayer was known to be made." But Lydia did not stay away from the gathering. She might easily have excused herself …

Ephraim Bemoaning Himself

Jeremiah 31:18

… The meaning of the prayer in my text is, "Lord, do not chastise me, but turn me. Do it Yourself, and then it will be done. Turn me …

A Double Silver Wedding

… I condense my sermon into a sentence, and that sentence is a prayer, — May the God, whom I serve, bless you all a thousandfold for this token of …

Lessons From Lydia'S Conversion

Acts 16:13

… Love the Prayer Meeting—do not say of it—"Only a Prayer Meeting"! God loves to put honor upon prayer, upon the assembly of His people directly for …

The Happy Duty of Daily Praise

Psalm 114:1

… I could not live without prayer." This is no more than I expect and I will not ask the question. But let me change the enquiry and ask …

Prayer 22 — The Presence of God

… And now, Lord, our prayer is to Thee at the mention of Thy sacred Book, that Thou wouldst write it upon the fleshy tablets of our heart more …

Hope in Hopeless Cases

Matthew 17:17

… Also, when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer. He has bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. He has caused …

Truthfulness

Jeremiah 5:3

… As to prayer. "A large Prayer Meeting." Yes, but the largeness of the number of attendants is not always a gauge of the quantity and power of prayer …

Heavenly Worship

Revelation 14:1-3

… They are Dissenters; they cannot bear the Prayer Book; they think that forms of prayer are bad, but they always use their own form of prayer notwithstanding; as …

Fast-Day Service

DANIEL 9:1-19

… SPURGEON, Being the Day appointed by Proclamation for a Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer before Almighty God: in order to obtain Pardon of our Sins, and for imploring …

Prayer 23 — The Look of Faith

… Oh! hear Thou, hear Thou the prayer - “Dear Savior, draw reluctant hearts, To Thee let sinners fly." By His agony and bloody sweat, by His cross and …

Driving the Vultures Away from the Sacrifice

Genesis 15:11

… When our time for prayer draws near, if all the 12 Apostles were to preach in our street, we ought not to give up our private prayer for …

'Here I Am!'

1 Samuel 3:4

… Parents do their children grievous wrong when they do not allow them to go with them to the House of Prayer. I have noticed, when the showers are …

A Practical Discourse

1 Kings 5:14

… Be in the frequent practice of prayer and—what is better—be always in the spirit of prayer! May the Holy Spirit lead you to baptize every duty …

Hearing, Seeking, Finding

Psalm 132:6

… This Psalm is a prayer and pleading of the Covenant, such a prayer as might have been offered by Solomon at the opening of the Temple, or by …

Grieving the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… Again, if we neglect prayer, if our closet door is cob-webbed, if we forget to read the Scriptures, if the leaves of our Bible are almost stuck …

The Broken Fence

… One is the habit of secret prayer. Private prayer should be regularly offered, at least in the morning and in the evening. We cannot do without set seasons …

Real Contact With Jesus

… O my hearer, when you are in prayer alone, never be satisfied with having prayed; do not give it up till you have touched Christ in prayer; or …