Prayer

The Fear of Final Falling

… We begin our day with prayer, and we hear the voice of holy song full often in our houses; but many good people have scarcely risen from their …

Fire—the Need of the Times

Luke 12:49

… He is bold, he is in earnest, he is mighty in prayer—he is, in fact, consecrated, given up, devoted—the zeal of God's House has eaten …

Psalm 21

Psalm 21

… Jesus has wrought out the salvation of his people, but as a man he found his strength in Jehovah his God, to whom he addressed himself in prayer …

A Typical Week’s Work

… Many times he has testified that, when leading the great congregation in prayer, he has been so rapt in adoration, and so completely absorbed in the supplication or …

A Sermon to Open Neglecters and Nominal Followers of Religion

Matthew 21:28-32

… In public prayer I shall not join—I have no heart for it. I shall not make a pretense of repeating morning and nightly prayer in private—what …

God's Works Made Manifest

John 9:3

… They are brought up to despise it, or else brought up in the midst of superstition and taught to say a useless prayer to a crucifix of wood …

Memories of my Father

… Olding’s school at Brighton, I wrote to tell my father that we had started a little prayer-meeting, in the master’s drawing-room, among our school …

The First Lesson

… The prayer of the quickened soul is, “Teach thou me.” We become as little children when God begins to deal with us.

Obedience to God’s Will

… upon others, but he simply says, “Doth my Father command it?” And his prayer is, “O Holy Spirit, help me to obey, not because I see how it …

Question 71: What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption?

Ac 2:41; Ac 2:42; Jas 1:18

… by which souls are begotten to spiritual life; Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Prayer, and Meditation, by all which believers are further edified in their most holy faith …

The First and Great Commandment

Mark 12:30

… They rise in the morning without a prayer, they rest at night without bending the knee, they go through the week’s business and they never acknowledge a …

Question 73: How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation?

Pr 8:34; 1Pe 2:1; 1Pe 2:2; Ps 119:18; Heb 4:2; 2Th 2:10; Ps 119:11; Jas 1:25

… to it with diligence, # Pr 8:34 preparation, # 1Pe 2:1 , 2 and prayer, # Ps 119:18 receive it with faith, # Heb 4:2 and love, # 2Th 2 …

Believing Prayer

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith. Little faith will get very great mercies, but great faith still greater. It was the custom …

Over The Mountains

… Mountains of remembered sin, Alps of backsliding, dread ranges of forgetfulness, ingratitude, worldliness, coldness in prayer, frivolity, pride, unbelief. Ah me, I cannot teach you all the dark …

Are You Mocked?

Psalm 14:6

… And how comes the money? All the world knows, and no man can gainsay it, that it comes in answer to prayer, and as the result of Mr …

The Call to the Ministry

… All which being done, to the entire satisfaction of the church, they therefore set him apart by lifting up their right hands, and by solemn prayer. His father …

Jerusalem the Guilty

Luke 13:33

… How can you be so distrustful, so provoking? Airy says, "If there is a God, if prayer can prevail, if there is any kind of piety that is …

Clinging to Christ

John 6:67

… To preserve you in the time of temptation, I spent whole nights in prayer. Upon you I have poured a plenitude of blessings—will you go away from …

Faith in the Person of the Lord Jesus

… true heart too.” “Ay,” rejoined a third, “and with prayer”; and, added a fourth, “It must be the prayer of the heart.” “And we must be diligent too …

Loving Advice for Anxious Seekers

James 1:5

… Lord, teach thou me.” Make a full confession, and this shall be a good beginning for prayer. Asking has also in it the fact the God is believed …

First Outlines of Sermons, 1851-1852

… E’en seas remote behold the glare, And hardy sailors raise their prayer. Now, in dim smoke, the flames expire That lit the city’s fun’ral fire …

Absconding and Apostasy

John 6:67

… Never neglect prayer. That is at the root of every defection. Retrogression commonly begins at the closet. To restrain prayer is to deaden the very pulse of life …

Our Youth Renewed

Psalm 103:5

… It is not even private prayer—it is God IN the prayer, God IN the preacher, God IN the ordinance, so that you not only have everything from …

Dec. 28 — ABSOLUTE ASSURANCE

Heb. 13:5

… Come, my heart; if God says He will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, be thou much in prayer for grace, that thou mayest never leave thy Lord …

Nov. 2 — HEAVENLY WEALTH

Ps. 84:11

… What a promise to plead in prayer! Let us get to our knees.

The Pleiades and Orion

Job 38:31

… Yes, prayer and faith can hold the Spirit! Prayer and faith can also loose the bonds of Orion. We will have sinners saved, we will have Churches revived …

Feb. 25 — SET APART

Isa. 61:6

… Our one occupation shall be to present the perpetual sacrifice of prayer, and praise, and testimony, and self-consecration, to the living God by Jesus Christ. This being …

The Wordless Book

Psalm 51:7

… There is something about this in the text, for the person who used this prayer said, "Wash me," so he was black and needed to be washed. And …

A Traveller’s Letters Home

Standing where Satan’s seat is, in the midst of ten thousand idols, I beseech those who worship God in the spirit to wrestle in prayer for times …

Aug. 4 — HE BLESSES AND KEEPS

Num. 6:24

… Please breathe the text to God as a prayer for His servants.

Dec. 15 — WORLD CONCORD

Isa. 2:4

… Let every reader of this book of promises offer special prayer today to the Lord and Giver of Peace, that He would speedily put an end to war …

True Unity Promoted

Ephesians 4:3

… In prayer, how truly does Montgomery put it— "The saints in prayer appear as one In word and deed and mind, While with the Father and the Son …

Jan. 6 — HELP FROM WITHOUT

Isa. 41:10

… Our prayer is, "Lord, be thou my helper"; our experience is, "The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities ; our expectation is, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the …

God's Thoughts and Ours

Psalm 139:17

… Hold You me up [See Sermon #1657, Volume 28—MY HOURLY PRAYER.] One is fond of that short, simple prayer. First it is, "Uphold me," and then, "Hold …

May 5 — WHY REMAIN CAPTIVE?

Deut. 30:3

… in chains by Satan, deprived of his liberty, robbed of his power in prayer, and his delight in the Lord! Let us watch that we come not into …

April 25 — WHAT TO LEAVE CHILDREN

Prov. 20:7

… Oh, that all young men were anxious to keep up the family name! Above all, he leaves his children his prayers and the blessing of a prayer-hearing …

June 15 — HOME BLESSINGS EXTENDED

Ps. 128:5

… Yes, you shall get a blessing when you go up to the assemblies of Zion; you shall be instructed, enlivened, and comforted, where prayer and praise ascend, and …

Aug. 11 — WAITING, NOT RUNNING

Ps. 62:1

… Waiting His leisure, waiting in His service, waiting in joyful expectation, waiting in prayer, and content. When the very soul thus waits, it is in the best and …

Feb. 11 — ARE THE CHILDREN IN?

Isa. 44:3

… We see much in them which makes us fear as to their future, and this drives us to agonizing prayer. When a son becomes specially perverse, we cry …

July 10 — LOVE THE CHURCH

Ps. 102:13

… We love the prayer meeting, and the Sunday school, and all the services of the Lord's house. We are bound in heart to all the people of …