Prayer

Unbinding Lazarus

John 11:43

… And so they are helped by precept, prayer and example, to free themselves. Who among us would wish Lazarus to continue wearing his shroud? Who would wish to …

The Three Witnesses

1 John 5:8

… I speak not of years ago, but of last night, when you bowed your knee in prayer and prayed, and were heard. Did not the Spirit when he …

Experience and Assurance

Psalm 63:7

… Oh, for more meditation! It would mean more Grace, more joy! The photographer can take an instantaneous photograph and so can we, by ejaculatory prayer and vehement desire …

The Hairs of Your Head Numbered

Matthew 10:30

… This is a great help in prayer. It may shorten your prayer a good deal if you go to God with the expression of your desire and plead …

The Barley Field on Fire

2 Samuel 14:29-31

… Frequently the call is to more fervent prayer. Do you not feel in yourself, at certain seasons, an earnest longing for private prayer? You have felt as if …

Broad Rivers And Streams

Isaiah 33:20-23

… She was the place where prayer and praise were custom to be made. So is she to continue throughout all generations. The Church of God is in this …

The Lord And The Leper

Mark 1:40-42

… Beloved, we saw in the reading, that our Lord had been engaged in special prayer. He had gone alone on the mountain-side to have communion with God …

Preventing Grace

1 Samuel 25:32

… If there is ever a special time for prayer, it is a time of need. Nature seems then to compel men to utter prayer of such a sort …

The Pentecostal Wind and Fire

Acts 2:2-4

… The Holy Spirit has never returned, for He came in accordance with the Savior's prayer to abide with us forever. The gift of the Comforter was not …

The Looking Glass

James 1:23-25

… His office needs him and, therefore, his prayer closet cannot have him! His ledger falls like an avalanche over his Bible. The man has no time to seek …

The Last Three Months at Mentone;–and Afterwards

… On the second Sabbath evening, — January 17, 1892, — before offering the closing prayer at the final service in which he took part on earth, he gave out the …

Zechariah'S Vision Of Joshua The High Priest

Zechariah 3:1-5

… prayer—there has been something amiss in the family during the day and you know it— perhaps, as the head of the household you have to conduct prayer …

Songs of Deliverance

Judges 5:11

… But, as for private prayer, brethren, this world were drear indeed if we could not pour out our sorrows into our Father’s ear. This is the poor …

Nathanael—the Man Needed for the Day

John 1:47

… If your heart means the prayer, God will hear it. O my Hearer, if you will turn from your sin in real earnest, God will help you and …

Acceptable Service

Hebrews 12:28

… When you stand up in a Prayer Meeting and pray, dear Friends, some of you cannot help remembering the time when you could swear or sing a questionable …

The Peace of God

Philippians 4:7

… Therefore would I turn the text into a prayer and pray for myself and for every Believer in Jesus Christ—that the peace of God which passes all …

Psalm 127

Psalm 127

… No prayer without work, no work without prayer. By caring and fretting, By agony and fear, There is of God no getting, But prayer he will hear. — From …

The Swift Camels

1 Kings 4:20-28

… Some soul is to be won for Christ, some Truth of God to be vindicated, some deed of kindly charity to be worked, some holy prevalent prayer to …

The First Recorded Words of Jesus

Luke 2:48

… Does Satan say, with regard to private prayer, "You have not the spirit of prayer. You must not pray"? Tell the devil you are going to pray for …

Certain Singular Subjects

Joshua 24:4

… We have prayer often at dying beds—why have we not more prayer in the chamber of birth? Surely, when an immortal spirit starts upon its endless career …

Five Links in a Golden Chain

Titus 1:4

… So, being one, let us show to all the world what the power of Christian unity really is! Keep together in the Prayer Meetings. Never let those precious …

The Power of Christ Illustrated by the Resurrection

Philippians 3:20

… This body at present is no assistance to the spirit of prayer or praise; it rather hinders than helps us in spiritual exercises. Often the spirit truly is …

The Seed by the Wayside

Luke 8:5

… I like those Prayer Meetings that harrow in the seed and that private prayer, that secret study of the Word, that private crying unto God, after the seed …

The Works of the Devil Destroyed

1 John 3:8

… This important distinction ought to be observed in public prayer. And this is a point in which we are dissatisfied with most liturgies, because they are necessarily composed …

Comforted and Comforting

2 Corinthians 1:3

… Hence, the minister of Christ, if he is to be of much use in God's service, must have great trouble. "Prayer, meditation, and affliction," says Melanchthon, "are …

The Ministry Of Gratitude

Luke 4:39

… Perhaps her fever had reduced her to such a state that she was quite unable to remember Christ the Healer, and unable to breathe a prayer to Him …

The Chaff Driven Away

Psalm 1:4

… He sees the sacraments, but he sees not God therein; he hears the preaching, he comes up to the house of prayer, into the midst of the great …

Loving Persuasion

Acts 28:23

… In pleading with Israel, for whose salvation his heart's desire and prayer always rose to Heaven, he followed the wisest and most hopeful course. He argued from …

'The Time of Jacob's Trouble'

Jeremiah 30:7

… See how logical David is with his, "for," and, "therefore"? It is the very essence of prayer to be able to urge pleas with God and to say …

"Without Carefulness"

1 Corinthians 7:32

… When you are as sure that God answers prayer as I am sure of it, then you will realize the meaning of the text, "I would have you …

Joshua's Vision

Joshua 6:10-27

… And when you hear the Gospel preached, or when you meet together for prayer, think you see in the center of the assembly the Champion of Israel with …

Farm Laborers

1 Corinthians 3:6-9

… In answer to the prayer, "give us this day our daily bread," He might have bid the clouds drop manna, morning by morning, at each man's door …

The Rule and Reward of Serving Christ

John 12:26

… I will give very largely to some new foreign missionary effort, or I will build a House of Prayer in which Christ's name shall be preached." God …

Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets

Deuteronomy 7:20

… And when you went upstairs to bed, if you had gone up there without that hornet, your prayer would have been a Pharisee's prayer! But as it …

Bread For The Hungry

Deuteronomy 8:3

… Most Christians who have grown rich in grace, have been great frequenters of the house of prayer. But now, why is it that we need this food at …

The Sinful Made Sinless

1 John 3:4

… This is the resolve, the intent, the prayer, the hope, the assurance of every Believer—that one day he shall be perfectly in Christ—and then he will …

Springtime in Nature and Grace

Isaiah 55:10-13

… I had not even engaged in prayer at a Prayer Meeting, for I was very diffident and I was afraid to speak of spiritual things! I was not …

Despair Denounced and Grace Glorified

Ezekiel 37:11

… Their Sabbaths are no rest to them; the House of Prayer brings no delight; the preaching of the Gospel yields no consolation. They turn to their Bibles and …

The Holdfast

Proverbs 4:13

… But, dear me, Prayer Meetings, lectures, sermons, Sunday schools—these are all despised, now! If a man can make an extra guinea or two by putting himself where …

Sermon 443. The Two Draughts Of Fishes

Luke 5:4

… Let us, then, be always in prayer for the blessing. Let us remember that we have done nothing until we have prayed over what we have done. Let …