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Evening, October 25
Ru 2:3
… We will wait in prayer this night until our hap shall be to light on a part of the field belonging to Jesus wherein he will manifest himself …
DEVOTIONALMorning, November 26
Ec 9:10
… Then let us seek his help; let us proceed with prayer and faith, and when we have done what our “hand findeth to do,” let us wait upon …
DEVOTIONALEvening, July 16
Ps 102:13-14
… When thou bendest thy knee in prayer to God, limit not thy petition to the narrow circle of thine own life, tried though it be, but send out …
SERMON • SERMON 3391Preparation for the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:28
… Oftentimes the shortest prayers have the most prayer in them. 8, 9. Be not you, therefore, like they: for your Father knows what things you have need of …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 19
Song 3:1
… Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there you must seek and find him. Did you lose Christ by sin? You will …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 31
Ps 51:10
… Be much in prayer; live much upon the Word of God; kill the lusts which have driven your Lord from you; be careful to watch over the future …
DEVOTIONALEvening, April 5
Pr 15:33
… Whether it be prayer or praise, whether it be work or suffering, the genuine salt of humility cannot be used in excess.
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 28
Is 54:1
… own right hand planting,” yet there are times when we feel very barren. Prayer is lifeless, love is cold, faith is weak, each grace in the garden of …
SERMON • SERMON 1033Faith's Dawn and Its Clouds
Mark 9:24
… I try to pray, but it is not worth calling prayer. I go up to God's house vowing that I will praise his name, and I get …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 14
2Ki 25:30
… In the word, through the ministry, by meditation, in prayer, and waiting upon God you shall receive renewed strength. In Jesus all needful things are laid up for …
DEVOTIONALEvening, February 3
Song 1:7
… In private prayer ? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word ? Then I will read it diligently. In thine ordinances ? Then I will walk in them with …
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 30
2Sa 2:26
… I fear to stand before my God; oh! pray for me.” The prayer is offered for him with sincere earnestness, and the way of salvation is for the …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 31
2Sa 18:23
… He knows my wants and can relieve them, to whom should I repair but to himself by the direct appeal of prayer, and the plain argument of the …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 7
Mt 12:15
… be the state of others whom I may remember at this moment in prayer, I may have hope in Jesus that he will be able to heal them …
DEVOTIONALMorning, August 11
Job 29:2
… It may arise through a comparative neglect of prayer , for a neglected closet is the beginning of all spiritual decline. Or it may be the result of idolatry …
SERMON • SERMON 3382Our Lord's Transcendent Greatness
Micah 5:4
… I know that in this very House of Prayer we have sometimes felt that we could stay here forever. It has been like Heaven below to us, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1131Clearing the Road to Heaven
Isaiah 62:10
… Now that was a very quaint and suggestive prayer, and I sometimes try to act up to it. But tonight I have been trying to cut a thin …
DEVOTIONALMorning, November 6
Is 44:3
… your heart? Have you lost the joy of religion, and is this your prayer, “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation”? Are you conscious also that you …
SERMON • SERMON 3481Visits From the Lord
John 21:7
… He will say to us, "Come and dine." Ah, how well fed are those whom Christ feeds! When we go up to the House of Prayer and look …
DEVOTIONALMorning, August 30
Ps 27:14
… Wait in prayer , however. Call upon God, and spread the case before him; tell him your difficulty, and plead his promise of aid. In dilemmas between one duty …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 25
Ro 3:31
… your heart obedient to the constraining power of Christ’s love, that your prayer may be, “Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 27
Ps 67:6
… Make use of him in prayer . Go to him often, because he is thy God. O, wilt thou fail to use so great a privilege? Fly to him …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 10
Job 19:26
… They love to behold him in communion and in prayer; but there in heaven they shall have an open and unclouded vision, and thus seeing “him as he …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 19
Job 23:3
… His first prayer is not “O that I might be healed of the disease which now festers in every part of my body!” nor even “O that I …
SERMON • SERMON 3478Go Back? Never!
Hebrews 11:15
… But that prayer which is accepted is prayer to a real God, of whom we are assured that He is. Do we not also fail in our belief …
SERMON • SERMON 2774Love Pledging Fidelity
1 Samuel 18:3
… To me that was the most solemn day of my life! I remember rising early, at the break of day, that I might have some hours of prayer …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 16
2Ki 3:16-17
… the entire church shall be met by the divine power in answer to prayer; and above all this, victory shall be speedily given to the armies of the …
SERMON • SERMON 2155The Beginning of Miracles Which Jesus Did
John 2:11
… No, no! This miracle was in a private house and that not at a Prayer Meeting or a Bible reading, but at the marriage of a couple of …
SERMON • SERMON 2586A Far-reaching Promise
Acts 2:39
… You do not come to God merely persuaded that He will hear importunate prayer. But if you come to Him, you come with a promise, for, "the promise …
SERMON • SERMON 3388Soul-threshing
Isaiah 28:27
… PSALM 90; 119:21-32. "The prayer of Moses, the man of God." I think this Psalm has been very much misunderstood because the title has been forgotten …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 2
Ru 2:17
… As she went out to gather the ears of corn, so must I go forth into the fields of prayer, meditation, the ordinances, and hearing the word to …
SERMON • SERMON 19David's Dying Song
2 Samuel 23:5
… True, we know some households that are the very image of peace and happiness, where the father and mother bend the knee together in family prayer, and they …
SERMON • SERMON 2344Christ's Dying Word for His Church
John 19:30
… It is the cry of One who has completed a tremendous labor and is about to die—and before He utters His death-prayer, "Father, into Your hands …
SERMON • SERMON 2891A Sabbath Miracle
Luke 13:10-13
… What a blessed prayer that is—a prayer useful on all occasions—under a sense of sin, or under a load of sorrow—burdened with labor, or crushed …
SERMON • SERMON 1174The Ear Bored With An Awl
Exodus 21:5
… Wandering hearts we have, but Divine Grace still holds them fast and our prayer is— "Prone to wander, Lord, we feel it, Prone to leave the God we …
SERMON • SERMON 2846'No Root in Themselves'
Mark 4:17
… One of the roots of a true Christian is secret repentance—and secret prayer is another—those are roots that run down far into the soil. He who …
SERMON • SERMON 885Serving The Lord
Romans 12:11
… The Prayer Meeting is neglected by them. They are not teaching children nor exhorting grown-up people. They are neither helping others to work nor working themselves and …
SERMON • SERMON 1115The Good Shepherdess
Solomon 1:7
… Therefore the prayer is, "Tell me." "You are my Model, O Great Shepherd. You are my Wisdom. If I am a shepherd to Your sheep, yet am I …
SERMON • SERMON 613The Strong One Driven Out By A Stronger One
Luke 11:21-26
… He begins to pray, even sets up family prayer. He attends Prayer Meetings, feels some sort of enjoyment in the excitement of religion. He goes where the saints …
SERMON • SERMON 797Spots in Our Feats of Charity
… If the knife has already removed sundry dead branches, be it our prayer that we may be found fruit-bearing boughs, vitally united to Christ. When I think …