Prayer

May 17 — NO NEED TO STINT

Prov. 28:10

… We have power with God in prayer in all time of need. We have the providence of God to watch over us, the angels of God to minister …

Nov. 28 — DOING WHAT GOD CAN BLESS

Deut. 28:8

… dare not ask God's blessing, neither would we go about it without prayer and faith. But what a privilege to be able to look for the Lord …

Feb. 23 — UNBROKEN FELLOWSHIP ESSENTIAL

John 15:7

… Lord, or else it would be dangerous to trust us with power in prayer. The carte blanche can only be given to one whose very life is, "Not …

July 26 — A CHANGE OF NAME

Hosea 2:16

… call the Lord's Day a delight, and worship is never a weariness. Prayer is now a privilege, and praise is a holiday. To obey is Heaven; to …

June 18 — GOD HIMSELF SHALL WORK

Isa. 33:10

… Are we drawn out in fervent prayer? Do we cry day and night unto Him? Then the set time for His grace is near. God will lift up …

First Visit to Scotland

… You cannot listen for a few minutes to the bright-eyed boy, whether he be preaching, or pleading in prayer, without feeling that no mere clap-trap rhetorician …

Feb. 24 — HEAR SO AS TO BE HEARD

John 15:7

… privilege is opened up to us! We are to have our will in prayer, because we have already surrendered our will to the Lord's command. Thus are …

Aug. 18 — SEEKERS, FINDERS

I Chron. 28:9

… Those who already know the Lord must go on seeking His face by prayer, by diligent service, and by holy gratitude: to such He will not refuse His …

The Former and the Latter Rain

Jeremiah 5:24

… Any Church that imagines that prayer need not be so humble and vehement. Any Church that conceives that its ministry has in it a natural power which guarantees …

Nov. 4 — YOU MARK THE TRENCHES

II Kings 3:16

… Let us this day be on the outlook for answers to prayer. As the child who went to a meeting to pray for rain took an umbrella with …

Nov. 7 — TRUE HUMILITY REWARDED

Luke 18:14

… Especially before the Lord in prayer we shall shrink to nothing. There we cannot speak of merit, for we have none: our one and only appeal must be …

Over the Mountains

Song 2:16

… They were not little hills, but mountains that closed up her way! Mountains of remembered sin, Alps of backsliding, dread range of forgetfulness, ingratitude, worldliness, coldness in prayer …

Oct. 13 — IF, AND A TRIPLE PROMISE

II Chron. 7:14

… In this prayer we are to seek the Lord's face. He has left us because of our faults, and we must entreat Him to return. O Lord …

Feb. 9 — THE DROSS PURGED

Zech. 13:9

… Our prayer will be that our alloy may be taken from us rather than that we should be withdrawn from the crucible. O Lord, thou triest us indeed …

May 28 — REMIND GOD OF HIS PROMISE

Gen. 32:12

… 32:12 This is the sure way of prevailing with the Lord in prayer. We may humbly remind Him of what He has said. Our faithful God will …

Words Of Expostulation

Jeremiah 2:18

… Cloud, she found her usual joy was departed— she had lost her power in prayer; she could not draw near to Christ as she should have done. She …

God in Nature and in Revelation

Psalm 19:7-9

… If you feel even a longingafter Him, that is a proof that you are not hidden from the heat of His love! Breathe this prayer again and again …

The Guilt and the Cleansing

Psalm 51:7

… And so he prayed this prayer, "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean." He felt, too, that sin was a very great defilement—that he was …

Sept. 12 — WHAT OF MY HOUSE?

Acts 16:31

… I would go over in my prayer every day the names of all my brothers and sisters, parents, children, friends, relatives, servants, and give thee no rest till …

April 19 — AN EXPERT SEARCHER

Exod. 34:11

… let us have good hope for those who are laid upon our hearts in prayer, for He will find them out also. The Lord repeats this process when …

Feb. 3 — HE FREELY GIVES

Rom. 8:32

… He freely gave His Only-begotten; and, O my soul, canst thou not trust thy heavenly Father to give thee anything, to give thee everything? Thy poor prayer …

An Unalterable Law

Hebrews 9:22

… But oh, dear Hearer, there is no efficacy in prayer to blot out sin! I will put it strongly. All the prayers of all the saints on earth …

Sweetness in Sorrow

… Blessed affliction! it has brought us to the mercy-seat; given life to prayer; enkindled love; strengthened faith; brought Christ into the furnace with us, and then brought …

The Double Cleansing

Zechariah 13:1

… So will you receive a gracious answer to the prayer with which we began our service— "Plenteous Grace with You is found, Grace to cover all my sin …

Sept. 30 — NEEDS TO OPEN OUR MOUTHS

Ps. 81:10

… deservings are so small; but the Lord would have us request great blessings. Prayer should be as simple a matter as the opening of the mouth; it should …

Beloved, and yet Afflicted

John 11:3

… We must not expect in every case that prayer for recovery will be answered, for if so, nobody would die who had chick or child, friend or acquaintance …

Believers A Blessing

Zechariah 8:13

… of the faithfulness of God to His promises—and of the power of prayer and the reality of faith. You will thus bring many a poor soul out …

'By Water and Blood'

1 John 5:6

… A very wonderful thing is prayer, yet it is not every man's prayer that is heard. But he that has the life of God within him shall …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878 (Continued)

… Spurgeon ascended the platform, and opened the service with prayer. Then a hymn was heartily sung, and a chapter read and expounded. The preacher’s prayer was frequently …

The Priesthood of Believers

1 Peter 2:5

… When I take down the Book of Common Prayer and read, "Then shall the priest say"—I shut it up again with detestation! And if it were the …

The Captive Savior Freeing His People

John 18:8

… In looking through this chapter one was greatly tempted to speak awhile upon the Master's selecting the place of His prayer as the place of His agony …

Prodigal Love for the Prodigal Son

Luke 15:20

… Never from his house to roam, Come and welcome, sinner, come." The father received his son with many kisses and so proved that his prayer was answered. Indeed …

The Pleasures of Piety

Psalm 104:34

… We do not wish to have a more unlimited promise than that! We do not ask God to hear our prayer if it is not according to His …

The Wandering Bird

Proverbs 27:8

… They were excellent people at Prayer Meetings. They were very serviceable, indeed, to give a little address, now and then, at a cottage meeting. They would have been …

A Consistent Walk for Time to Come

Colossians 2:6

… Good Rutherford used to pray for a larger heart, that he might hold more of Christ and, perhaps, you remember that strange extravaganza of prayer in which he …

Spiritual Resurrection

Ephesians 2:1

… Oh! ye daughters of Sion, who are ever at the house of prayer, oh! that you should yet be without grace in your heart! Take heed, I beseech …

The Soul's Great Crisis

Romans 7:8

… He did not lie sleepless on his bed at night, thinking of his iniquity—on the contrary, he lulled himself to sleep with some such a prayer as …

Morning, December 29

1Sa 7:12

… in honour, in dishonour, in perplexity, in joy, in trial, in triumph, in prayer, in temptation, “hitherto hath the Lord helped us!” We delight to look down a …

Five Fears

Ecclesiastes 8:12

… By the preaching of the Word, by the reading of the Scriptures, by prayer, or by some Providence, we were led to look within; we discovered the evil …

Four Choice Sentences

Genesis 28:15

… His faith enabled him to draw near to God in mighty prayer and his fear made him the more desperate and importunate. He said, "I will not let …