Prayer

A Personal Application

Hebrews 9:26

… the portion of any man or woman now sitting in this House of Prayer? May God avert it by His eternal mercy! But I see not how it …

Justification, Propitiation, Declaration

Romans 3:24-26

… A second time He puts this remarkable prevalence of prayer side by side with walking in the Lord's commandments! Oh, you that miss success in your life …

Pride and Humility

Proverbs 18:12

… He was the stiffest and proudest man in the church, yet he invariably used to tell the Lord, in prayer, that he was nothing but dust and ashes …

God's Fatherly Pity

Psalm 103:13

… I have been, sometimes, so sorely sick as scarcely able to pray, that is to say, not to express my desires in a consecutive prayer. And I remember …

Conversion and Character

Acts 16:24-34

… The good work was intimately connected with Prayer Meetings, which for this reason should always wear a charm for Europeans. Godly women met together for devotion. Paul spoke …

Love Joying In Love

Solomon 5:1

… with My honey." Having made these observations upon the Lord's fulfilling the prayer of the spouse, I should like to deliver the following remarks upon the text …

Things Present

1 Corinthians 3:22

… You do ask the Lord to give you, day by day, your daily bread and you have it in answer to prayer and in proof of Divine faithfulness …

Jacob's Waking Exclamation

Genesis 28:16

… Oh! be dressed, stay not for another pin, but stay for another prayer it thou wilt, that thy soul may be dressed, for often thou comest with thy …

The Men that “Sell the Books”

… He is frequently able to hold prayer-meetings, open-air services, and Bible-readings. He gets a room, if possible, and preaches; founds Bands of Hope, and makes …

The Great Reservoir

Proverbs 4:23

… He who lives without prayer—he who lives with little prayer—he who seldom reads the Word—he who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh influence …

The Broad Wall

Nehemiah 3:8

… If you find your happiest moments in worship, in communion, in silent prayer, or in the public assembling of yourselves with the people of God, then your higher …

'A Time to Love'

Ecclesiastes 3:8

… or only knew Him to despise Him? You went to the House of Prayer, but you were godless and careless. You heard the preacher inviting his hearers to …

Finding and Following Christ

John 1:45

… relax! I especially urge you not to let Jesus slip away from private prayer, or the reading of the Scriptures, or your intimate personal communion with Him. Make …

The Gazelles and the Deer

Song 2:7

… When this shall have been made your own by experience, you shall understand the text and shall also breathe the prayer of another verse of the same song …

Confession of Christ

Matthew 10:32

… There has been no prayer, no gathering as a family round the home altar. But God has looked upon me in mercy and now, as for me and …

Pictures of Happiness

Psalm 144:15

… were last Monday evening when we gathered round that Communion Table, instant in prayer, constant in fellowship, continuing to be happy in blessing and praising and magnifying the …

A Troubled Prayer

Psalm 25:18

… appointed it! Let any of you who are in trouble here, mend your prayer tonight. If you have been saying, "Lord, take away the sickness from my dear …

The Believer A New Creature

2 Corinthians 5:17

… He heareth prayer. Heaven’s gate is open. Seek, for he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened; and God bless thee, for …

The Divided Heart

Hosea 10:2

… One-heartedness in a Christian is a great point. "Unite my heart to fear Your name" is a prayer which every Christian should always pray. "A double-minded …

The Voice From Heaven

Revelation 11:12

… The Husband of that chosen soul is now answering the prayer for His Presence which it delighted to offer, saying, "Abide with Me." Now is the poet's …

A Visit to the Tomb

Matthew 28:6

… I have known this to be the case in prayer. We have prayed and we have not received because we had no warrant in the Word of God …

Footsteps Of Mercy

Job 33:23

… Afterwards the Word of the Lord came to him that his prayer was heard, that his tears were seen and that his life should be spared. And this …

The Drawings of Love

Jeremiah 31:3

… Turn that wish into a prayer! Bow your head, now, and pray with this petition. God will hear your secret sighs. He does not reject sincere prayers, however …

Soul-satisfying Bread

John 6:35

… The coming here meant is performed by desire, prayer, assent, consent, trust, obedience. It means that I hear what Christ is and learn what God says He is …

The Victory of Faith

1 John 5:4

… Church people come to me sometimes to unite with our church; I show them our doctrines in their prayer book, and they have said they never knew they …

The Savior's Thirst

John 19:28

… The prayer is for pardon—no, it is for purification, as well as pardon! 2. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Take …

The Queen of Sheba

Matthew 12:42

… The proper way in which to read these verses is to peruse them in the spirit of prayer, turning every verse into a personal supplication to God. I …

Psalm 91

Psalm 91

… Not without prayer will the blessing come to the most favoured, but by means of prayer they shall receive all good things. I will be with him in …

God's Valiant Right Hand

Psalm 118:16

… Then, as I used to go up to my little chamber and bow my knees in prayer and come down more wretched than when I entered it, when …

Christ's One Sacrifice for Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… But what prayer! Never did the earth hear such groans and cries! He is there wrestling, but what wrestling! He sweats, as it were, great drops of blood …

An Antidote to Satan's Devices

Genesis 3:1

… I feel that I could not live without prayer, and yet there is no unction in my soul. I dare not sin. I trust my life is outwardly …

Mr. Fearing Comforted

Matthew 14:31

… Let me ask you, have you not thought less of Christ than you ever did? I will not suppose that you have neglected prayer, or have left your …

Our Position and Our Purpose

2 Corinthians 7:1

… I should not like, at the Prayer Meeting, to hear any of you say, "Lord, bring us halfway toward perfection." No, no, no! Our prayer must be, "Lord …

Spiritual Peace

John 14:27

… I remember, in my early childhood, having heard an old man utter in prayer, a saying which stuck by me—“O Lord, give unto thy servants that peace …

Unreasonable Reasons

Matthew 14:31

… I gave up my good works, such as they were, wretched things! I gave up reliance upon feelings and reliance on prayer—and came to rely only upon …

The Numbered People

Numbers 4:49

… are now needed to speak in the meetings, to lead the people in prayer, to order the assemblies and to take the heavier work of this holy business …

The Desolations of the Lord, the Consolation of His Saints

Psalm 46:8-9

… We want to have our brethren more earnest in prayer. Look at our prayer-meetings—a miserable handful of people, compared with the congregation. We want to have …

Psalm 131

Psalm 131

… One cannot admire enough the prayer of Anselm, a profound divine of our own country, in the eleventh century. "I do not seek, O Lord, to penetrate thy …

Mistakes Concerning God

Psalm 1:21

… sermon? Have they not even been to a Prayer Meeting? Have they not repeated, night and morning, a prayer that their mother taught them when they were children …

A Happy Christian

Isaiah 58:11

… But it is quite as plainly the teaching of Holy Scripture that answers to prayer, the enjoyment of the Presence of God and a healthy state of spirit …