Prayer

A Golden Sentence

John 4:34

… Lack of this knowledge often leads to lack of prayer—and lack of prayer leads to lack of receiving. Perhaps someone asks, "Why does not God give without …

A Silly Dove

Hosea 7:11

… Besides that, when love applies herself to prayer, and when, in addition to prayer, she kindly gives admonition to a beloved friend, it often happens that true Christian …

The Great Pot and the Twenty Loaves

2 Kings 4:38

… They scarcely ever join the people of God in public prayer, though they once professed to be very devout. Private prayer is neglected and family prayer given up …

A Round of Delights

Romans 15:13

… See, dear Friends, the value of prayer, for if Paul longs to see his friends attain the highest possible condition, he prays for them! What will prayer not …

The History of Little-Faith

Matthew 14:31

… Even Little-Faith has prayer for its vital breath, its native air. Where there is life, there is breath—and where there is faith, there is prayer! O …

Eternal Faithfulness Unaffected By Human Unbelief

2 Timothy 2:13

… He cannot deny Himself." Alas, the Church of God seems to lose, sometimes, her faith in prayer! Her pleading assemblies become scarce. Her prayer for men's conversion …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… Have you not become lax in prayer? You maintain the habit of it, and you could not give that up, but you have not that power in prayer …

The 'Beau Ideal' of Life

Psalm 90:14

… There is nothing wrong in offering the prayer, "O satisfy us early," so long as that prayer is completed in the way in which my text completes it …

Our Heavenly Father's Pity

Psalm 103:13

… This last request may remind us of the prayer of the dying thief, "Lord, remember me." And it may serve for us as a repenting prayer. "According to …

The Sequel to Divine Sovereignty

Psalm 99:1

… S DYING PRAYER.] He had nothing more to pray for! He had his heart's highest and best wish and, therefore, he closes his prayer where God had …

Psalm 125

Psalm 125

… First we have a song of holy confidence (Ps 125:1-2); then a promise, Ps 125:3; followed by a prayer, Ps 125:4; and a note …

Sin's True Character

Romans 7:13

… Breathe the prayer! A broken heart He will not despise. A look at Him will do it. A faint glance at Jesus pleading for you will do it …

Characteristics of Christ's Disciples

Luke 14:26

… By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit." Prayer, then, is a blessed fruit of Divine Grace—prayer for others, prayer for Christ's Church …

The Axe at the Root—A Testimony Against Puseyite Idolatry

John 4:23-24

… It is the work of the Spirit in the soul returning to its author; or as our hymn puts it— “Prayer is the breath of God in man …

Kept From Iniquity

Psalm 18:23

… If people knew the danger, they would send in prayers to the Monday night Prayer Meeting, asking that the Lord would have mercy upon the man who is …

A Promise For Us And For Our Children

Isaiah 44:1-5

… It may be that we have even fallen into sin and sitting in this House of Prayer we confess with Pharaoh's butler, "I do remember my faults …

Manoah's Wife and Her Excellent Argument

Judges 13:22

… If it involves the taking away of my dearest friends, yet I make no reserve, but include in the prayer all that is necessary to the good end …

Unabated Affection between Pastor and People

… I join you in earnest prayer that the brethren, who have so kindly come to my relief to-day, may have equally adequate assistance from our Lord and …

Particular Election

2 Peter 1:10-11

… IT is exceedingly desirable that in the hours of worship and in the house of prayer our minds should be as much as possible divested of every worldly …

Thanksgiving And Prayer

Psalm 65:11

… Let Psalms and hymns employ your tongues today—and tomorrow, when we meet together at the Prayer Meeting, let us turn it rather into a Praise Meeting and …

Growth in Faith

Luke 17:5

… The Apostles went to Christ, the Lawgiver, the Author and Finisher of their faith and, lifting up their hearts to Him in the prayer, "Lord, increase our faith …

The Immutability of God

Malachi 3:6

… Then there was a season of prayer, and afterwards he wrestled, and had to go all his life with his thigh out of joint. But a little further …

Sincere Seekers—assured Finders

1 Chronicles 28:9

… If we do this, we have found God—and we are saved! The sum and substance of the promise is this—any soul that, by prayer, seeks God …

Praise Comely to the Upright

Psalm 33:1

… There has been much prayer about it and God always answers prayer. You will be graciously helped through it. Be of good courage." And on Sunday night it …

A Full Heart

… He who lives without prayer–he who lives with little prayer–he who seldom reads the Word–he who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh influence …

The Sad Wonder

Mark 6:6

… If there is anything under Heaven that I am as sure of as I am of the demonstrations of mathematics, it is the fact that God hears prayer …

Faintness and Refreshing

1 Kings 19:8

… He gave Elijah something better than that for which he asked, so He really did hear and answer his prayer. But it was strange that Elijah should have …

Elijah Fainting

1 Kings 19:4

… I may be, at this time, addressing some of the Lord's children who have prayed Elijah's prayer. I know one who, in the bitterness of his …

Divine and Human Ordination

… The ordination prayer should be prayed in the church-meeting, and there and then the work should be done; for other churches to recognize the act, is well …

Psalm 68

Psalm 68

… You may, if you please, take the words either as a prayer, or as a prophecy: as a prayer that they may; or as a prophecy, that they …

Lovely, But Lacking

Mark 10:21

… Pray this prayer—"Lord, bind the sacrifice with cords, even with cords to the horns of the altar! Let me be Yours now, and Yours hereafter when You …

India’s Ills and England’s Sorrows

Jeremiah 9:1

… Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, lament most bitterly, for this desperate sin; and then cry to God to save! Remember, he heareth prayer—prayer moveth …

Unsubmissive Prayers

… We must not intrude into God’s almonry, “It is the Lord, let Him do as seemeth Him good.” Prayer was never meant to be a fetter upon …

Seeking Richly Rewarded

Psalm 34:10

… Here is an explanation of the experience of the Believer—first, prayer—then God's hearing and then deliverance. Who would not pray who has found prayer to …

Psalm 150

Psalm 150

… Happy the bard who has thus become the eternal hymn, the personified prayer and complaint of all humanity! If we look back to that remote age when such …

Christ’s People—Imitators of Him

Acts 4:13

… Let not your servant, on leaving your employ, say, “Well, this is a queer sort of a religious family; there was no prayer in the morning, I began …

"As We Have Heard, So Have We Seen"

Psalm 48:8

… Further, to show you how experience supports the Word of God, we were told many times over that God hears prayer. We were reminded of the Savior's …

The God of Peace

Romans 15:33

… Three verses before our text he actually gives them an exhortation to strive, and yet he here utters a prayer that the God of peace might be with …

'Good Judgment'

Psalm 119:65

… And now that he had come to a more correct judgment, he offered this prayer: "Teach me good judgment and knowledge." This is what all Christians need—better …

Fever and Its Cure

Luke 4:38

… When they are moving they do not consider whether they shall be near a House of Prayer or a place of usefulness. Though their souls have been fed …