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'Life for a Look'
Isaiah 45:22
… But when he finds that he cries in vain to his god in the day of trouble—when he discovers that no answer comes to his earnest prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 2276Forgiveness, Freedom, Favor
Deuteronomy 15:2
… My dear brother Williams, in his prayer, spoke of the generosity of God as seen in these commands and, depend upon it, none but a generous Lawgiver would …
SERMON • SERMON 3181A Sermon for a Winter's Evening
John 18:18
… That dark and gloomy olive garden was no pleasure garden that night! It had often been a place of retirement and of prayer for the Master. What happy …
SERMON • SERMON 3089A Sermon on a Grand Old Text
1 Timothy 1:15
… Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God and the words of the Seers that spoke to him in the name of …
SERMON • SERMON 1281"Do You Love Me?"
John 21:16
… Found, as we are, in His House, having just sung sweet hymns in His honor, having united in prayer and heartily joined in His worship, it would seem …
SERMON • SERMON 2675Jehovah's Challenge
Jeremiah 32:27
… There is nothing in your spiritual case that is too hard for the Lord—so bring it before Him in faith and prayer this very hour! I fancy …
SERMON • SERMON 1622Mongrel Religion
2 Kings 17:41
… I knew one who was always at the place of worship, prayer-meetings, and all, and yet he had forsaken the wife of his youth, and was the …
SERMON • SERMON 515The Sinner'S Advocate
1 John 2:1
… The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a sinful prayer, and only moves that arm because the Sinless One, the great Mediator, has stepped in …
SERMON • SERMON 1853Up from the Country and Pressed Into Service
Mark 15:21
… Many more unlikely things than this have happened in this house of prayer. I pray that many a man may go out from this house a different man …
SERMON • SERMON 1040What and Whence Are These?
Revelation 7:13-14
… They were fortified by a secret strength which they found at the throne of God in prayer, a patience which the Holy Ghost wrought in them, and which …
SERMON • SERMON 2857God's Goodness Leading to Repentance
Romans 2:4
… Think once more of how you felt when you were sitting at the table on which the family Bible lay open and morning and evening prayer was offered …
SERMON • SERMON 1804Obadiah; or, Early Piety Eminent Piety
1 Kings 18:12
… Many a tear of earnest prayer fell on our infant brow and sealed us for heaven; we were nursed in the atmosphere of devotion; there was scarce a …
SERMON • SERMON 2920Election-its Defenses and Evidences
1 Thessalonians 1:4-6
… to live for God? Are you prayerful? Do you come to God in prayer as Jesus did? Are you careful of your words and of your acts as …
SERMON • SERMON 2313Charity and Purity
James 1:27
… It may come as a spontaneous gift of Sovereign Grace, but we have no right to expect an answer to prayer when we pray in a wavering style …
SERMON • SERMON 1794"Return, Return, O Shulamite; Return, Return!"
Song 6:13
… much richer you might have been! Come now, quit those dreams, shall those prayer-meetings, leave that tiresome office in the Sunday-school, give up philanthropic speculations, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1202Holy Water
John 4:14
… Certainly extempore prayer and the most varied service is heavy enough when the soul is taken out of it. Anything which has not spiritual life in it becomes …
SERMON • SERMON 1341Retreat Impossible
Judges 11:35
… And so, too, in prayer—both in the closet and in public. We say great things to God in supplication—do we always make good on what we …
SERMON • SERMON 1321Why May I Rejoice?
Luke 10:20
… Let us keep under our body and watch unto prayer, lest haply, after having preached to others, we, ourselves, should become castaways. It will be a dreadful thing …
SERMON • SERMON 1348The Great House and the Vessels In It
2 Timothy 2:20
… And when we have confessed the responsibility, let us turn to God in prayer and feel that thorough purging is a work which we cannot achieve and, therefore …
SERMON • SERMON 2542Christ's Rest and Ours
Isaiah 11:10
… the ransomed to pass over? Our prayer is that God may do all this again—and the answer to our prayer is found in the following verse. 11 …
SERMON • SERMON 546Alpha And Omega
Revelation 22:13
… Breathe the prayer, "Now, also, when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not." See to it that you forsake Him not, but clasp Him …
SERMON • SERMON 2392The Birth Of Christ
Isaiah 7:14
… Because Roman Catholics pay too much respect to the Virgin Mary, and offer prayer to her, we are too apt to speak of her in a slighting manner …
SERMON • SERMON 1539"The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved"
John 21:20
… The other evangelists give us Christ's miracles and certain of His sermons, but His profound discourses and His matchless prayer are reserved for that disciple whom Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 2029Let Him Deliver Him Now
Matthew 27:43
… In prayer he cast himself upon the Lord, and felt in his heart, "Come on, doctors, I am ready for you." When the next morning came, he refused …
SERMON • SERMON 1775"My Lord and My God!"
John 20:28
… On a day which I had given up to prayer, I sat before the Lord in holy peacefulness, wrapped in solemn contemplation. And though I did not see …
SERMON • SERMON 2874Precepts and Promises
John 12:26
… Be you a witness-bearer for Him, whatever that witness bearing may cost you— "Cold mountains and the midnight air Witnessed the fervor of His prayer"— so let …
SERMON • SERMON 2178Zedekiah—or, the Man Who Cannot Say, "No"
Jeremiah 38:5
… Be you not of this sort! Oh, pray every morning, "Lead us not into temptation," and when you have breathed that prayer to God, add the other, "But …
SERMON • SERMON 1497Self-righteousness—a Smoldering Heap of Rubbish
Isaiah 65:5
… And even in the Temple, in prayer, they stood by themselves lest they should be defiled! Their whole spirit is expressed in the words of the text, "Stand …
SERMON • SERMON 3141Women's Rights—a Parable
Numbers 17:5
… and give you good success, too! Oh, that someone here would breathe the prayer, if he has never prayed before, "Savior, will You see that I have a …
SERMON • SERMON 955A Singular But Needful Question
John 5:6
… He that is whole spiritually is a man of habitual prayer. He is accustomed to feel constant gratitude, and so to exhibit continual praise. He is a man …
SERMON • SERMON 3174Concentration and Diffusion
John 12:3
… Father, glorify Your name. [See Sermon #1391, Volume 24—A GOLDEN PRAYER.] In the 27 verse, our Savior asked Himself the question, "What shall I say?" here He …
SERMON • SERMON 1668The Still Small Voice
1 Kings 19:12
… it might, perhaps, impress the thoughtless crowd and drive to our Houses of Prayer those who now habitually waste the Sabbath? Might not cholera, or war, or famine …
SERMON • SERMON 2870Revelation and Conversion
Psalm 19:7
… Have I not also read sermons which were very highly polished, and which, I daresay, were preceded by a prayer that God would convert souls by them? But …
SERMON • SERMON 1029A Call to Holy Living
Matthew 5:47
… He gave himself for his enemies, and died breathing a prayer over them; he lived never for himself. You could not put your finger on one point of …
SERMON • SERMON 969Rest, Rest
Matthew 11:28-30
… Some are laboring in prayer, some are laboring in sacraments, others in self-denials and mortifications, but as a class they are awakened to feel the need of …
SERMON • SERMON 335A Single Eye And Simple Faith
Matthew 6:22
… partly in your good works, or in ceremonies, or in almsgiving, or in prayer, or in your experience, or your doctrinal knowledge—all or any of these as …
SERMON • SERMON 2546A Message to the Glad and the Sad
Job 22:29
… of the Church who seem as if they could not offer up a prayer to save their lives. And what is worse, they cannot talk to their personal …
SERMON • SERMON 2708The Old Gospel for the New Century
Matthew 11:28
… and gone into Glory—for He points you, not to the House of Prayer, nor to the Throne of Grace, nor to the baptistery, nor to the Communion …
SERMON • SERMON 2655Decided Ungodliness
Jeremiah 5:3
… Perhaps not many of you, who are in this House of Prayer, have gone as far as that, but certainly many people in the great world have actually …
SERMON • SERMON 1984Man, Whose Breath Is In His Nostrils
Isaiah 2:22
… When men begin to quibble at Christ and the Doctrines of Grace, cease from them! Steal away to Jesus in private prayer. Five minutes' communion with your Lord …