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Honest Dealing with God
1 John 1:8-10
… Such persons will daily cry to the strong for strength, and what is prayer for strength but a confession of weakness caused by sin? What is watchfulness but …
SERMON • SERMON 1577Sin Subdued
Micah 7:19
… Even the holiest words, when you are in prayer, will sometimes suggest to you a loose song that you used to sing and a casual expression which has …
SERMON • SERMON 409Fellowship With God
1 John 1:3
… and this is the Father’s will, as well as Jesus Christ’s prayer, “Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.” Do you not see …
SERMON • SERMON 1527Perfect Sanctification
Hebrews 10:10
… offered a little prayer in the middle of business this afternoon because you heard an ill word spoken—and your God accepted that prayer. You went down the …
SERMON • SERMON 2602Good News for the Aged
Matthew 20:6
… You may imagine how earnestly he put up his prayer to God that he might succeed the last time. "O Lord, let this last match succeed," he cried …
SERMON • SERMON 309Full Redemption
Exodus 10:26
… Ring your Sabbath bells, my brethren! Go up to your house of prayer! Be happy! But I see a gloom upon your face. What means it? You reply …
SERMON • SERMON 1000Number One Thousand; Or, “Bread Enough and To Spare”
Luke 15:17
… know how to approach the throne of God in faith, to breathe the prayer that he would now bring into captivity the unconverted heart, and put these two …
SERMON • SERMON 1982Love at Its Utmost
John 15:9
… Do you not feel him drawing you even as you sit in this house of prayer? Then under a present sense of his love, cry out "The love …
SERMON • SERMON 1008Love's Logic
1 John 4:19
… You have gone astray like a lost sheep, but your prayer is, “seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.” Now, note well, that the cause …
SERMON • SERMON 1631The Main Matter
John 20:30
… Of the whole of His disciples, our Lord gives the secret reason of their discipleship in His matchless prayer, "For I have given unto them the words which …
SERMON • SERMON 2160Not Sufficient and Yet Sufficient
2 Corinthians 3:5
… In this house of prayer so many have found eternal life in Christ Jesus that we seek no letters of commendation as to our sufficiency in God. He …
SERMON • SERMON 305Separating the Precious From the Vile
Exodus 11:7
… regular in the practice of ceremonies—that he could not live without private prayer, and the like. Permit me to assure you, that if there is no greater …
SERMON • SERMON 319Special Thanksgiving to the Father
Colossians 1:12
… the kingdom of God are studied much the best when you are in prayer. II. The second mercy is A MERCY THAT LOOKS BACK. We sometimes prefer the …
SERMON • SERMON 2653The Head and the Body
Ephesians 4:15
… It is often my prayer for this Church, when I am anxiously thinking of the great work here, that nothing may ever arise to divide us in spirit …
SERMON • SERMON 239Jacob and Esau
Romans 9:15
… I had always set Jacob up, in my mind, as the very model of a man wrestling in prayer; I do not think so now. He divided his …
SERMON • SERMON 2332Lessons From the Manna
Exodus 16:4
… How often could that answer be made to us! God hears our prayer and we run and say, "What a wonderful thing! God has heard my prayer!" "This …
SERMON • SERMON 2323Obedience Rewarded
Matthew 28:8-10
… us! May He who met them meet with us in this House of Prayer tonight! First, I ask you to look at these women in the way of …
SERMON • SERMON 2336The Love Of Jonathan and the Love Of Jesus
2 Samuel 1:26
… Dear children of godly parents, our heart's desire and prayer to God for you is that you may love your mother's God, and trust your father …
SERMON • SERMON 1749A Luther Sermon at the Tabernacle
Habakkuk 2:4
… These men dwelt with God in holy boldness of believing prayer, or they could not have lived at all. Luther's faith laid hold upon the Cross of …
SERMON • SERMON 2549Luminous Words
1 Peter 4:1-3
… I know many a child of God who, when he is in prayer, will have suggested to him, even by the words he uses, some lascivious song. And …
SERMON • SERMON 2589The Christian's Glorious Inventory
1 Corinthians 3:21-23
… He will hear the cry of the destitute and will not despise your prayer. And next, "life" is ours. Have you ever heard a person say, "Oh, if …
SERMON • SERMON 2623How Faith Comes
John 4:39-42
… This was an ignorant prayer on the part of the woman, but it is one which I would commend to every enlightened soul—"Sir, give me this water …
SERMON • SERMON 2317Obeying Christ's Orders
John 2:5
… off of certain things—"Whatever He says unto you, do it." Breathe this prayer at the present moment, "Lord, help me to do whatever You have said! May …
SERMON • SERMON 1534Salvation By Works, A Criminal Doctrine
Galatians 2:21
… Do I speak to any here who were once professors of religion—who once used to offer prayer in the assembly—who once walked as saints but now …
SERMON • SERMON 1774God's Work Upon Minister and Convert
Acts 26:16-20
… Your prayer may be, "Turn me, and I shall be turned," but the command is, "Turn you, turn you, why will you die?" God will turn you, but …
SERMON • SERMON 911The Putting Away Of Sin
Hebrews 9:26
… Sin was not put away by the offering of His living works, nor by the incense of His prayer, nor by the oblation of His tears—nor even …
SERMON • SERMON 1618Holiness, The Law of God's House
Ezekiel 43:12
… Her Law-Book is the holy Bible, her armory is the holy Covenant, her comfort is holy prayer. Her convocations are holy assemblies—her citizens are holy men …
SERMON • SERMON 1566Cheer for the Worker and Hope for London
Acts 18:9
… My prayer has been especially that the Lord would say to each one here present who knows His name, "Be not afraid, but speak and hold not your …
SERMON • SERMON 2305No Fixity Without Faith
Isaiah 7:9
… Do any still talk of faith as being a little thing? Why, it is faith that leads to prayer, and prayer is the very breath of God in …
SERMON • SERMON 1801The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Luke 15:4-7
… How he dwells upon that fact in his great prayer in John 17 : ‘Thine they were, and thou gavest them me;’ ‘Father, I will that they also, whom …
SERMON • SERMON 1411Under Constraint
2 Corinthians 5:14
… You must become, dear Brothers and Sisters, by prayer through the Holy Spirit, to be like Jesus Christ. And when you do, His love will take fuller possession …
SERMON • SERMON 1584The Heroic In Christianity
Luke 6:32-34
… You spend certain times in prayer—so do the Muslims. You are very devout—so are Parsees. You are known to be a religious man—so were a …
SERMON • SERMON 1479The Work of Grace the Warrant for Obedience
John 5:11
… God than we deserved, we should not have been in this house of prayer! We cannot afford to cramp our charity into a sort of petty justice and …
SERMON • SERMON 2522"After Two Days Is the Passover"
Matthew 26:2
… You can easily take Him there while He is in prayer with a few of His disciples. I will conduct you there." And before long the deed of …
SERMON • SERMON 521The Power Of Aaron'S Rod
Exodus 7:12
… They can pray very nicely in Prayer Meetings, yet they never dream of consecrating their secular employments unto God. Aaron's rod, in their case, has never swallowed …
SERMON • SERMON 339The Sons of God
Romans 8:16
… Every one knows that it is a disgrace to a matchless prayer-book, that such words should be permitted to stand there-words so infamously untrue that by …
SERMON • SERMON 781Christus Et Ego
Galatians 2:20
… He has discovered himself to have been personally lost, and to have been personally saved and now his prayer is, "Lord, show me what You would have me …
SERMON • SERMON 2507He Ran, and He Ran
Mark 5:6
… Was not that a proper prayer? I think, dear Friends, that not only nature, but the man's new nature must have suggested this petition. He prayed Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 839The Head of the Church
Colossians 1:18
… To Christians it is nothing to say that certain doctrines are taught in books of common prayer, or of conference discipline, or of systematic theology. To us it …
SERMON • SERMON 327Vessels Of Mercy—A Sermon Of Self-Examination
Romans 9:23
… The people of God are earnest in prayer. There are men raised up to preach in simple language the Truth of God as it is in Jesus, and …