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The Snare of the Fowler
Psalm 91:3
… people from the snares of the fowler, by giving them the spirit of prayer as well as the spirit of courage, so that they call upon God in …
SERMON • SERMON 2917The Doors of the Shadow of Death
Job 38:17
… They knew nothing of prayer, or of faith. Their consciences have become seared. They played bravado with God and He has given them up, so when they come …
SERMON • SERMON 2682A Song and a Solace
Job 10:12
… Your hand and do not utterly crush my spirit." This is a wise prayer, a right and proper argument for a creature to use with the Creator. And …
SERMON • SERMON 504I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
Job 19:25-27
… They delighted to behold him in communion and in prayer. There in heaven they shall have a vision of another sort. We shall see God in heaven, and …
SERMON • SERMON 3525God's Overtaking Mercy
Genesis 16:8
… once knelt at your mother's knee at eventide and repeated a gracious prayer? Ah, you have spent many a day and many a night in the haunts …
SERMON • SERMON 196A Present Religion
1 John 3:2
… thing to be accomplished just at the close of life, and the usual prayer of an ungodly man, when in the slightest degree pricked in his conscience, is …
SERMON • SERMON 3169The Believer's Present Rest
Hebrews 4:3
… It is glorious to live exempt from care by the blessed power of prayer—to be able to take every trouble to God and leave it with Him …
SERMON • SERMON 3202'It Pleased God'
Galatians 1:15
… And those of you who have been converted as the result of a regular attendance at the House of Prayer, when you come to remember how many others …
SERMON • SERMON 316A Sense of Pardoned Sin
Isaiah 38:17
… He walks more cautiously and tenderly than he did before; lives nearer to God; cultivates greater acquaintance with the Holy Spirit; is more in prayer, more humble; and …
SERMON • SERMON 1640The Touch
Mark 5:30
… We, too, shall succeed in prayer when we plead with all humility, bowing in the dust before the Lord. 23, 24—And besought Him greatly, saying, My little …
SERMON • SERMON 279Come and Welcome
Revelation 22:17
… As his voice to you is “Come,” even so will be your prayer to him, “Come, Lord, and abide in my house. Come, and consecrate me more fully …
SERMON • SERMON 765Grace—the One Way of Salvation
Acts 15:11
… You could not conduct a Prayer Meeting. You have hardly courage enough to give away a tract. Well, my dear Friend, you are one of the timid ones …
SERMON • SERMON 3331Knowing and Believing
2 Timothy 1:12
… How does he come to know Him? Well, he has heard of Him, he has read of Him, he seeks Him in prayer and when he has learned …
SERMON • SERMON 69The Allegories of Sarah and Hagar
Galatians 4:24
… have temporal blessings; but God would not turn aside, even for Abraham’s prayer. And when Sarah was rather fierce, as she must have been that day when …
SERMON • SERMON 3235The Hope That Purifies
1 John 3:3
… The true Christian not only wishes the preacher to search him, but his prayer is, "Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my …
SERMON • SERMON 3463Why Men Do Not Believe
John 5:46
… our nature to come into contact with Him who lives and who hears prayer! Now, you cannot expect a man who has imbibed his notions of religion from …
SERMON • SERMON 2076Sounding Out the Word of the Lord
1 Thessalonians 1:8
… However some of you are lax on this point, but I am bound to say that I rejoice in your gatherings for prayer. In this you are my …
SERMON • SERMON 334Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing
2 Samuel 3:39
… now, but have no power in preaching; I pray, but it is not prayer; I totter on the knees which should be strong. I, who could once prevail …
SERMON • SERMON 3108The House of Mourning and The House of Feasting
Ecclesiastes 7:2
… You heard my prayer, just now, that I might never cross the threshold of the house of sinful feasting. But there is a "house of feasting" to which …
SERMON • SERMON 3390Hoping in God's Mercy
Psalm 33:18
… Do you call upon God in prayer? Do you trust in God, however little it may be? Then you shall be saved! Believe it. If any soul here …
SERMON • SERMON 2905The Father and the Son
1 John 1:3
… You cannot enjoy this fellowship, my Friend, whatever you say, unless your soul has learned to speak with God in prayer and praise—and unless your ears have …
SERMON • SERMON 3257Thoughts and Their Fruit
Jeremiah 6:19
… Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make interception to Me: for I will not hear you. You know …
SERMON • SERMON 285Man's Ruin and God's Remedy
Numbers 21:8
… You remember that prayer that you offered in the time of your distress: you remember too that God graciously delivered you, but where is the thanksgiving that you …
SERMON • SERMON 3400The Day of Atonement
Leviticus 16:34
… Till with You, in the Garden, I heard Your pleading prayer, And saw the bloody sweat drops, That told Your sorrow there." Oh, there is never, never such …
SERMON • SERMON 181Particular Redemption
Matthew 20:28
… It is night; He sleeps not, but He is in prayer. Hark to His groans! Did ever man wrestle as He wrestles? Go and look in His face …
SERMON • SERMON 210“As Thy Days, So Shall Thy Strength Be”
Deuteronomy 33:25
… thy worm to death?’ ’Tis in this way,’ the Lord replied; ’I answer prayer for grace and faith.’” That is, the Lord helps us to grow downward when …
SERMON • SERMON 859The Old Way of the Wicked
Job 22:15-17
… of seconds when the Grace of God comes to work with man! My prayer is that some who came in here today the slaves of Satan, may go …
SERMON • SERMON 3062The Spirit's Office Towards Disciples
John 16:14
… Occupying their tongue, He will also be sure to engage it in prayer for them and they will not cease to offer such prayers as these—"Your Kingdom …
SERMON • SERMON 3223Salvation As It Is Now Received
1 Peter 1:8
… We may have "said our prayers," as so many do, but the living breath of true God-inspired prayer was not in us. How could it be in …
SERMON • SERMON 2633The Two Pivots
Exodus 3:6
… His side! And if He is not ashamed of you and if your prayer is, "Lord, remember me when you come into Your Kingdom," acknowledge Him as your …
SERMON • SERMON 3404A Gross Indignity
Matthew 27:30
… Oh, my Lord and Master! One prayer I offer, "Give me Grace to bear that spit, thankfully to receive it, and to rejoice because I am counted worthy …
SERMON • SERMON 576Quiet Musing!
Psalm 39:3
… Meditation comes and gives one stroke after another with all the weight of prayer and of thoughtful-ness, but it stirs not. But at last our diligence is …
SERMON • SERMON 788Creation’s Groans and the Saints’ Sighs
Romans 8:22-23
… as his soul has been purified, so shall his body be, and his prayer shall be heard, that the Lord would sanctify him wholly, body, soul, and spirit …
SERMON • SERMON 1125The World On Fire
2 Peter 3:10
… This ought to be the prayer of the Christian. If all these things will have to be purged, what manner of persons ought we to be in daily …
SERMON • SERMON 889Real Grace for Real Need
Luke 9:11
… in the world once to pray, but now I find that a true prayer is beyond my power." O Soul, you have need of healing, indeed, possessed with …
SERMON • SERMON 963Our King, Our Joy
Psalm 149:2
… Never pray we a prayer but what we would wish to have it forgiven as well as answered. Our faith is frequently so weak that we scarcely know …
SERMON • SERMON 360The New Park Street Pulpit
Ephesians 1:5
… No, Beloved, He will not! He will turn again; He will hear our prayer; He will have mercy upon us. If we are His children, we may have …
SERMON • SERMON 206Everybody's Sermon
Hosea 12:10
… O man kneel down and learn this prayer,—“Lord, let my dying be like the setting of the sun; help me, if clouds and darkness are round about …
SERMON • SERMON 2324The Followers of the Lamb
Revelation 14:4
… So He, into His own bosom, gathers His own sheaves with His own hands. "May I be among them!" Make that your prayer tonight. May I be one …
SERMON • SERMON 1153The Matchless Mystery
Ephesians 5:30
… of the heavenly." Now, you, as spiritual men, cry out to God in prayer, and so did He when He was here. Now you are in an agony …