Prayer

The Believer's Death Day Better Than His Birthday

Ecclesiastes 7:1

… My conversion day—shall I ever forget it?—When my heart began to beat with spiritual life and the lungs of my soul began to heave with prayer …

The Holy Road

Isaiah 35:8

… There the tribes went up to offer their national prayer and praise to Jehovah, the God of Israel. Pilgrimage to the holy place was an important part of …

The Tabernacle—Outside The Camp

Exodus 33:7

… camp set apart for that worship which was common to Patriarchal times—for prayer, praise and burnt sacrifices. Now, here God dwelt in the midst of this Tabernacle …

Walking Humbly With God

Micah 6:8

… Some bow humbly before God in the hour of prayer. Others sit humbly in His Presence at the time of meditation and others string themselves up to draw …

Godly Fear and Its Goodly Consequence

Proverbs 14:26

… Wherever you are, if you discharge the duties of your calling as in the sight of God, you can, by prayer and thanksgiving, saturate your lives with godliness …

The Exeter-Hall Sermon to Young Men

Psalm 116:16

… There was, years ago, a Brother who used to occasionally pray at the Prayer Meeting in a low tone, as if he had no lungs left. Seldom could …

Recruits for King Jesus

1 Chronicles 12:16-18

… We feel at home when we drop in with a few who believe in prayer and expect the lord to interpose on the behalf of His people. I …

God of the Hills and God of the Valleys

1 Kings 20:28

… of God is more than ordinarily to be manifested in answer to believing prayer! The man who knows his God is strong and performs great exploits, judges all …

The Lessons of the Foot-washing

John 13:3-5

… Though they prick me like thorns in the flesh and give me pain, yet they are really too trifling for me to mention in prayer." Not so! The …

The Lost Silver Piece

Luke 15:8-10

… delight to see an earnest house-sweeping by confession of sin at a prayer meeting, or by a searching discourse, a house-sweeping when every one is earnest …

Other Sheep and One Flock

John 10:16

… Set two Brothers at prayer, the one a Calvinist and the other an Arminian, and they pray alike! Get a real work of the Spirit in a district …

The Samaritan Woman and Her Mission

John 4:27-30

… so—come and see for yourselves! Can anything be fairer? Seek Him by prayer. Trust Him by faith. Test His Gospel for yourselves. It is an old-fashioned …

Baptism’A Burial

Romans 6:3-4

… You ask, ‘What is good and what is acceptable in the sight of the Most High?’ Your daily prayer is, ‘Lord, show me what thou wouldest have me …

A Bright Light in Deep Shades

Isaiah 51:1

… When I bowed the knee in prayer it was delightful to speak with my heavenly Father— 'What peaceful hours I then enjoyed, How sweet their memory still.' "But …

The Pilgrim's Grateful Recollections

Deuteronomy 8:3-6

… Let the child of God remember this, and when he feels himself very weak in himself, and driven to his Lord in prayer, let him rejoice that he …

How To Become Fishers of Men

Matthew 4:19

… I pray that every righteous man, vexed as he is with the conversation of the wicked, may be more importunate in prayer than he has ever been, and …

Sunshine in the Heart

Psalms 37:4

… And will you yourselves also delight in God, so that when you come to God in prayer, and pray for this congregation, you may be sure he will …

The Panting Deer

Psalm 42:1

… We can go day after day—not without prayer, thank God—not without praise, not without the assembling of ourselves together at ordinary times—but, alas, without the …

The Royal Prerogative

Psalm 68:20

… At times these have come in a miraculous form, as when Hezekiah had his life lengthened in answer to prayer and when many others were healed by the …

The Shield Of Faith

Ephesians 6:16

… Or suppose the arrow is aimed at the knee and Satan seeks to make him weak in prayer and tells him that God will shut out his cry …

The Beatific Vision

1 John 3:2

… We are not ashamed to call each other brethren in this house of prayer. Young man, you have got a mother and her soul doats upon you. Could …

The Message from the Lord's Mouth

Ezekiel 3:17

… during the long evenings, the people can come together and special meetings for prayer and exhortation can be held. Just now, as the damp of autumn begins to …

'Bought with a Price'

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

… of Gethsemane, kneels Immanuel the Son of God; he groans, he pleads in prayer, he wrestles; see the beady drops stand on his brow, drops of sweat, but …

Where The "If" Lies

Mark 9:23

… It may not have been very strong, but still it was there, or else he would not have laid the stress of his prayer upon the Lord's …

Preaching! Man's Privilege and God's Power

Mark 6:20

… Then after prayer, if you would be blessed under the Word, there should be an expectation of being blessed. It is wonderful the differences between the same sermon …

Remember Lot's Wife

Luke 17:32

… They do not quite give up the appearance of prayer, but still there is very little of it. They do not see the good of being in such …

Satan's Banquet

John 2:9-10

… The conviction of his sin overpowered him totally; he could only give his soul to fasting and to prayer, and it was only when he drank of the …

Nazareth—or Jesus, Rejected by His Friends

Luke 4:28-30

… His heart's desire and prayer for them was that they might be saved, and that instead of a day of vengeance it might be to them the …

A Free Salvation

Isaiah 55:1

… and I attend the prayer-meetings and beside that, I pay everybody twenty shillings in the pound. I had rather pay twenty-one shillings than nineteen. I would …

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… But now we can sit alone in our little upper room, or beneath some silent shade in the calm retreat which so well agrees with prayer and praise …

Heaven and Hell

Matthew 8:11-12

… At times I wickedly thought God a most heartless tyrant, because he did not answer my prayer; and then, at others, I thought, “I deserve his displeasure; if …

Psalm 101

Psalm 101

… Good men are so sensible of infirmity that they cry for help from God, so full of prayer that they cry at all seasons, so intense in their …

“Forward!”

… God alone can give you that wisdom which you will need in dealing wisely with them, but He will give it to you in answer to believing prayer …

Runaway Jonah and the Convenient Ship

Jonah 1:3

… and the strength of God is made perfect in our weakness! With more prayer we shall have more power. I hardly think that fear of being overdone was …

Psalm 58

Psalm 58

… In either sense the prayer of the Psalm has often become fact, and will be again fulfilled as often as need arises. Verse 8. As a snail which …

Election

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… True, if he turns to certain other portions of the Prayer Book, he will find things contrary to the doctrines of free-grace, and altogether apart from scriptural …

First Sermons at New Park Street Chapel

… And, methinks, every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them, and …

Psalm 37

Psalm 37

… It does not contain any prayer, nor any direct allusion to David's own circumstances of persecution or distress. It is rather the utterance of sound practical wisdom …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man

… Before we parted, he used to offer up a short prayer which was an inspiration to both of us. ” Mr. Spurgeon had a marvellous combination of gifts which …

Psalm 111

Psalm 111

… Could we ever have known it so well if we had not been in pressing need of his help? We may well turn this verse into a prayer …