Prayer

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot Do

Mark 4:26-29

… After you have spoken the Word, resort to God in prayer and commit it into God's hands—and then do not fret about it. It cannot be …

Importance of Small Things in Religion

… I like your Prayer Book well enough, but not so well as my Bible. I respect your Church decrees, but not so as I venerate this Book. I …

A Savior Such As You Need

Hebrews 10:15-18

… tell you that your prayer is a most precious thing, and that a broken heart is a precious thing, and yet your prayer and your broken heart are …

Psalm 124

Psalm 124

… The Lord has heard the prayer which he taught us to pray, and he hath delivered us from evil. The snare is broken, and we are escaped. The …

A Secret And Yet No Secret

Solomon 4:12

… They understand well the gift of prayer, but they understand little of the secret of the inner life of devotion. Brothers and Sisters, if you and I have …

Stambourne Meeting-House

… The prayer-meetings during the week were always kept up; but at certain seasons of the year grandfather and a few old women were all that could be …

Early Wedded Life

… we never knew who sent it, save that it came in answer to prayer ! This was our first united and personal home experience of special necessity provided for …

Under His Shadow

… The joy of the Lord is our strength, and it is when we delight ourselves in the Lord that we have assurance of power in prayer. Here faith …

Jesus Asleep on a Pillow

… far more His cause than yours?” Then I have taken my load in prayer, and left it with the Lord. I have said, “In God’s name, this …

Individuality, and Its Opposite

… It is well to go to the pulpit, at times, with “God be merciful to me a sinner” as our uppermost prayer. Some mourners will never be cheered …

Memorable Services away from Waterbeach

… After prayer and singing, I read, from the Book of Proverbs, the chapter containing the words, ” The hoary head is a crown of glory.” When I had gone …

Pure Fun

… It was a very delightful winding-up of the meetings; and with prayer, and speech, and song, the time swiftly passed. On one of those occasions, the whole …

Psalm 112

Psalm 112

… He bade every one of them speak his opinion; one said, watching and sobriety; another said, fasting and discipline; a third said, humble prayer; a fourth said, poverty …

Memories of Maidstone and Newmarket

… Clergyman . — How do you know that? Does not the Prayer Book say that faith and repentance are necessary before baptism? And this is so Scriptural a doctrine, that …

The Great Change.—Conversion

… I went time after time, and I can honestly say that I do not know that I ever went without prayer to God, and I am sure there …

Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers

Isaiah 51:2-3

… He dwelleth in our midst by his Holy Spirit, and holy hymn and prayer rise every day from the multitudes that fear him. The Lord hath redeemed, and …

Wheat in the Barn

… Then, indeed, shall the Master’s prayer have a glorious answer—”That they all may be one.” All our errors removed and our mistakes corrected and forgiven, the …

Psalm 100

Psalm 100

… is a fit anticipation of the worship of heaven, where praise has absorbed prayer, and become the sole mode of adoration. How a certain society of brethren can …

Preaching in the Open Air

… and the very precariousness of the weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer. I once preached a sermon, in the open air, in haying time, during a …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… Thou knowest not His good will; be thy prayer then submissive thereunto, And leave thy petition to His mercy, assured that He will deal well with thee. If …

Alas! I Can Do Nothing!

… keep them fixed upon those solemn topics which concern my salvation; a short prayer is almost too much for me. It is so partly, perhaps, through natural weakness …

“Westwood”

… At one of the Tabernacle prayer-meetings, Mr. Spurgeon gave an address upon the mother-fern, in which he urged his hearers to seek to be spiritually what …

Psalm 52

Psalm 52

… David views his prayer as already answered, the promise of God as already fulfilled, and therefore at once lifts up the sacred Psalm. And I will wait on …

An Inscription for the Mausoleum of the Saints

Hebrews 11:13

… certificate that we should be with Him in Glory, for this is His prayer, "Father, I will that they also whom you have given Me be with Me …

Men Bewitched

Galatians 3:1

… Everybody was astonished at it and, if you said, "This is the Church of England and this is according to her Prayer-Book," everybody said you were uncharitable …

Christ Exalted

Hebrews 10:12-13

… His midnights are spent in labours as hard as those of the day—labours of agonising prayer, wrestling with his Father for the souls of men. His was …

Farm Laborers

… In answer to the prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread,” he might have bidden the clouds drop manna, morning by morning, at each man’s door …

The Special Call And The Unfailing Result

1 Corinthians 1:9

… shall be saved." To call upon that name is to invoke it in prayer—venture upon it in fact and trust it by faith. If you believe in …

The Parable of the Sower

… Soul, thy prayer shall be heard. God never sets a man longing for mercy without intending to give it. Does another whisper, “Oh that I might be saved …

Our Glorious Transforming

Ephesians 2:13

… It is for him to bring his sacrifice of prayer, and thanksgiving, and come in, even into the holy place in the presence of the Most High. And …

The Parable of the Sower

Luke 8:4-8

… Soul, thy prayer shall be heard. God never sets a man longing for mercy without intending to give it. Does another whisper, "Oh that I might be saved …

Christ's Finished Work

John 19:30

… help me, before the present assembly, trusting and believing that, in answer to prayer, there will be tonight the Presence and power of the Holy Spirit descending, invisible …

A Plain Answer to an Important Enquiry

John 6:29

… Lord, I believe—help You my unbelief and save me now." O God, help many to breathe the prayer of faith at this moment, for Jesus' sake. Amen.

The Well-Beloved

… Our Lord prayed for those whom the Father had given Him, that they might be one, and the Father granted the prayer: the Lord’s own people are …

Israel in Egypt

Revelation 15:3

… I see the trembling church, fearing to be over-thrown; I mark her leaders bending their knees in solemn prayer, and crying, “Lord, save thy people, and bless …

The Christian—A Debtor

Romans 8:12

… We little know how many a blessing the poor man’s prayer brings down upon us. I beseech you then, beloved, wherever you see a poor saint, wherever …

Lecture 2: On Commenting

… Very little time in the service can be afforded for reading the lessons; do not rob the prayer and the sermon for the sake of commenting. This robbing …

Cheer For The Faint-Hearted

Judges 13:23

… Now that he had received the weapon of "all prayer," he found that he had need of it as he walked through that desperate place, the Valley of …

The Memorable Hymn

… Oh, that to-night the Master would enable each one of us to offer that tuneful prayer which we so often sing,— “Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung …

The Death of Christ

Isaiah 53:10

… He steps upon the fagots; the chain is put about his middle; and after a brief word of prayer, as soon as the fire begins to ascend, he …