Prayer

The Vital Force

Hebrews 10:38

… But to stand on the watch-tower day and night, always vigilant, watching lest the foe surprise us— watching lest our hearts betray us—watching unto prayer that …

Christ Lifted Up

John 12:32

… Now, what is the right way to bring all the churches to union? “We must revise the prayer book,” says one. You may revise it, and revise it …

The Privileged Man

Ezekiel 16:9-14

… Go to your knees in prayer as an anointed priest. Go to your Sunday school this afternoon, or street preaching, or whatever else may be your form of …

Lessons From Christ's Baptism

Matthew 3:16

… Breathe the prayer— "Come, Holy Spirit heavenly Dove, With all Your quickening powers, Come, shed abroad a Savor's love, And that shall kindle ours"— and there is …

The Compassion of Jesus

Matthew 9:36

… Pray to Him now! Now let the silent prayer go up, "My Savior, have pity upon me! Be moved with compassion towards me, for if misery is any …

Memories of my Father (Continued)

… are best adapted. “I was very thankful to read that you rejoiced in prayer; may it always be so, and yet more and more; for nothing gives us …

The Scarlet Line in the Window

Joshua 2:21

… any hour of the day and not discover a solitary sign of family prayer going on. The practice has gone out of fashion even among many who profess …

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… My earnest prayer is, that our brave soldiery may honor themselves as much by moderation in victory, as by endurance of privation, and velour in attack. I have …

Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts

Mark 3:5

… Do you desire that it should be so? Will you join me in a silent prayer that his melting operations may at this moment be felt in your …

'Marvelous Things'

Psalm 98:1

… I love the LORD because He has heard my voice and my supplications. [See Sermon #240, Volume 5—prayer answered, LOVE NOURISHED] Every answered prayer should make us …

More Room for More People

Luke 14:22

… Were you here sometimes at the Monday night Prayer Meeting, you would feel there was room! Some of our Brethren pray as if they had room in their …

The Fainting Warrior

Romans 7:24

… As for prayer, it will seek by prayer to wrestle with the enemy. It will employ faith, and hope, and love, the threatenings, the promises, providence, grace, and …

God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness

Hebrews 11:34

… That admirable woman, who has but just departed this life, became the founder of a hospital in which cures were worked mainly by the means of prayer and …

God's Hand at Evening

Ezekiel 33:22

… Tarry in the Jerusalem of your prayer closet until you are endued with power from on High, for, "they that wait upon the Lord shall remember their strength …

The Carnal Mind Enmity Against God

Romans 8:7

… Yea, more, ye shall bring him to the house of prayer; ye shall make him sit constantly under the clearest preaching of the word, where he shall hear …

The Two Gatherings

Psalm 50:5

… In His intercessory prayer before He suffered, our Lord Jesus Christ prayed "Father, I will that they, also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I …

Corn in Egypt

Genesis 42:1

… He had been at prayer, I doubt not, asking God to deliver his family in the time of famine; and by-and-bye he hears, first of his …

The Wailing of Risca

Jeremiah 4:20

… Mother, thy want of prayer was the instrument of my damnation.” But so live, that when you hear the funeral knell, for a neighbour even, you may be …

Constancy And Inconstancy—a Contrast

Hosea 6:3

… We have turned to prayer and found words and even desires fail us when on our knees. We have searched the Scriptures with no consolatory result—every text …

The Memory Of Christ's Love

Solomon 1:4

… I commend this prayer to you, "Lord, draw me; draw me." It is the work of Christ to draw. "I, if I am lifted up from the earth …

The Universal Remedy

Isaiah 53:5

… And if a contemplation of the sufferings of Jesus does not constrain us to draw very near to God in prayer, surely the chief remedy, itself, has failed …

The Only Door

John 10:9

… He shall go in unto God with holy boldness in prayer. He shall go in unto that which is within the veil and speak to God from before …

Abundant Pardon

Isaiah 55:7

… We cannot approach God in prayer without faith, for a prayer that has no faith in it must die on the road. To seek the Lord aright we …

"Is God In the Camp?"

1 Samuel 4:7

… People do not think sermons dull when God is in the camp! And Prayer Meetings are not, then, called, "stupid affairs." The saints enjoy fellowship with one another …

Debtors and Debtors

Luke 7:41

… A young man, blessed with godly parents, brought up from his childhood in the midst of prayer and holiness, can sin much more than poor children taken out …

Glorying in the Lord

1 Corinthians 1:31

… Never let an answer to prayer be unrecognized, but magnify the Lord, who in His abundant mercy has had such compassion upon you. Glorify Him, then, growingly. As …

Soul-winning

Proverbs 11:30

… After many days' attack, many weeks of waiting, many an hour of storming by prayer and battering by entreaty to carry the Malakoff of depravity—this is the …

Fresh Grace Confidently Expected

Psalm 92:10

… Do you need more power in prayer? Go to Him who understood the art of wrestling on the mountainside at midnight and He will teach you how to …

The Last Census

Psalm 87:6

… You said it, Sir, when last time conscience pricked you, because you had retired to rest at night, and had omitted the prayer in which you had been …

To Those Who Feel Unfit for Communion

2 Chronicles 30:17-20

… If our hearts are longing after God, let us confess our neglect of meditation, our failure in private prayer, our forgetfulness of self-examination and our failure in …

Suffering Outside the Camp

Hebrews 13:12

… When I was on my knees in prayer, I seemed as if I could not pray. I felt like the unclean one that must be put outside the …

Chastisement

Hebrews 12:5

… If he is called upon to pray, there is a sweet brokenness of spirit about his prayer, but there is not that pointedness and warmth we could desire …

The Plowman

Isaiah 28:24

… We attended the services on weeknights as well as on Sundays! We went to Prayer Meetings, we joined a Bible class, we distributed tracts, we subscribed our guinea …

The Sealing of the Spirit

Ephesians 1:13

… When we feel that we can draw near to Him in prayer and speak to Him, that He hears us and deigns to grant us gracious answers of …

The Mediator’The Interpreter

Exodus 20:18-20

… Godly fear makes prayer to be fervent prayer; it makes the hearing of the word to be quite another thing from listening to the chatter of the world …

Maroth—or, the Disappointed

Micah 1:12

… And, further, if it comes distinctly from God, it gives us all the more powerful plea in prayer. One may plead thus, "O Lord, this trouble is not …

God, the Husband of His People

Jeremiah 31:32

… The wife gives to her husband her whole self—let us give to our loving God our whole spirit, soul and body! Be it our prayer that there …

The Sheep Before The Shearers

Isaiah 53:7

… also my prayer is pure." But not so the Savior. In His mouth were no complaints. And yet it is quite impossible for us to conceive how the …

Rejoice Evermore

1 Thessalonians 5:16

… Begin with prayer. Prayer will make the darkening cloud disappear and then you will rejoice. If supplication is over and you are not rejoicing, then sing a Psalm …

A Sore Grievance

Jeremiah 50:6

… you! 'Twas but the other night when some of us were together in prayer and communion with Christ, and we could not help singing— "My willing soul would …