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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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 3391

Preparation 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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.

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Evening, 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 …

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Faith'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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Our 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 …

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Clearing 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Visits 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Go 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 …

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Love 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

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Evening, 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 …

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The 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 …

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A 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 …

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Soul-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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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David'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 …

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Christ'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 …

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A 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 …

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The 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 …

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'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 …

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Serving 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 …

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The 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 …

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The 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 …

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Spots 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 …