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Plowing Rock
Amos 6:12
… Change these rocks, we beseech You!" Here is the reason for our Prayer Meetings and for our private intercession. We can do nothing with these rocky hearts, so …
SERMON • SERMON 2433Heman's Sorrowful Psalm
Psalm 88:13
… This makes a wonderful difference in prayer! Praying is not whistling to the winds, it is crying before God—speaking to God! You cannot see Him, but He …
SERMON • SERMON 2689The Ever-Living Christ
Revelation 1:18
… By-and-by, when you are fitted for it and Christ has prepared a place for you, His prayer shall be fulfilled in your happy experience! "Father, I …
SERMON • SERMON 1249Saints In Heaven And Earth One Family
Ephesians 3:15
… Do not misunderstand me, I am no believer in the intercession of the saints above. I believe that they pray, but I believe it to be a damnable …
COMMENTARYPsalm 60
Psalm 60
… In our version it is a prayer; in the Septuagint an expression of faith—"Thou wilt return." Verse 2. The perturbation, the prayer, the plea. G. R. Verse …
SERMON • SERMON 2251Our Compassionate High Priest
Hebrews 5:2
… He died because of your sin. "He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession …
SERMON • SERMON 2139The Prince of Life
Acts 3:15
… Let us believe in Him as "able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them …
SERMON • SERMON 2321The Heavenly Singers and Their Song
Revelation 5:8-10
… In Heaven there is prayer—we must correct the common mistake about that matter—and there is something to pray for. Although we do not ask the intercession …
SERMON • SERMON 1390Brief, Silent Prayer
Nehemiah 2:4
… into a constant state of prayer! I believe it is the best condition in which a man can be—praying always, praying without ceasing, always drawing near to …
SERMON • SERMON 341The High Priest Standing Between the Dead and the Living
Numbers 16:47-48
… The people stand back a little; Moses and Aaron fall upon their faces in prayer; they beg of God that he would spare the people, for they have …
SERMON • SERMON 1905Healing and Pardon
Isaiah 33:24
… Lift up your heart to Him and cry unto Him out of the depth! Let your prayer rise to His Throne out of the low dungeon. Expect that …
SERMON • SERMON 1434Jesus!
Matthew 1:21
… His Resurrection? And beyond that His Ascension and, to crown all, His perpetual intercession? How grandly does the title befit Him, now that He is able to save …
SERMON • SERMON 1888The Blood of Sprinkling
Hebrews 12:24
… In the intercession of our risen and ascended Lord his sacrifice ever speaketh to the Most High. By the teaching of the Holy Ghost the atonement will always …
SERMON • SERMON 554Enduring to the End
Matthew 10:22
… My hearer, how impressed you were at the prayer meeting! how excited you were at that revival service! When you heard a zealous brother preach at the theater …
SERMON • SERMON 1191For Whom Did Christ Die?
Romans 5:6
… rebellious also.’ He lives to intercede, and Isaiah tells us that ‘He made intercession for the transgressors.’ The aim of his death, resurrection, ascension, and eternal life, is …
SERMON • SERMON 692Joy And Peace In Believing
Romans 15:13
… Let your prayer be, "Lord, give me comfort, but give me safety first. Forbid that I should take comfort except from Your right hand." Use Toplady's vow …
SERMON • SERMON 848Jesus Christ Immutable
Hebrews 13:8
… In all the teachings of His middle life, in those laborious three years of diligent service, both in His public ministry and in His private prayer, He is …
SERMON • SERMON 1332Our Urgent Need of the Holy Spirit
Romans 15:13
… to be in us more and more mightily as the Spirit of prayer, making intercession in us with groans that cannot be uttered, that the Church may not …
SERMON • SERMON 739The Sin Offering
Leviticus 4:3
… What was the blood put upon the altar for, then? That incense altar was typical of prayer, and especially of the intercession of Christ—and the blood on …
SERMON • SERMON 652Jesus The Shepherd
Isaiah 40:11
… He was in prayer wrestling with God. One night it is Peter who must be pleaded for. Another time another claims His tearful intercession. No shepherd sitting beneath …
SERMON • SERMON 1665The Exceeding Riches of Grace
Ephesians 2:7
… Beloved! By His Atonement it is procured to us and by His matchless intercession it is actually bestowed! Said I not right well that I have a theme …
SERMON • SERMON 3178The Preparatory Prayers of Christ
Luke 3:21
… The whole life of our Lord Jesus Christ was one of prayer. Though we are often told about His praying, we feel that we scarcely need to be …
SERMON • SERMON 1705The Hearing of Faith
Galatians 3:2
… That good man had abounded in almsgiving and prayer—and yet the Holy Spirit fell not upon him. But, when the "hearing of faith" came, and they were …
SERMON • SERMON 2974A Wafer of Honey
2 Corinthians 12:9
… When chastened we run to prayer, but we shall not, therefore, escape the chastisement! Paul, an Apostle, prays. He who certainly must have understood "the effectual fervent prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 1663The True Gospel Is No Hidden Gospel
2 Corinthians 4:3
… His loving heart is still occupied with the same Divine errand that brought Him down below—He is, by His intercession, saving sinners whom He purchased with His …
SERMON • SERMON 791The Arrows of the Bow Broken in Zion
Psalm 76:3
… His intercession comes up perpetually before the eternal Throne—and the constant presentation of His Omnipotent merit evermore preserves the tempted, succors the needy, and upholds those that …
SERMON • SERMON 2064Essential Points In Prayer
1 Kings 9:2
… Evidently they consider praying men to be born fools. If it is certain that prayer has no effect upon God, my Brothers and Sisters, I would just as …
SERMON • SERMON 1294The Anchor
Hebrews 6:17-20
… Providence sends us many different trials, all meant to exercise and increase our faith and, at the same time, in answer to prayer, it brings us varied proofs …
SERMON • SERMON 1386Sins Of Ignorance
Leviticus 5:17
… Let this be the prayer of each one of us—"What I know not, O my God, teach me. Make me to understand the way of Your precepts …
SERMON • SERMON 872The Perseverance of the Saints
Philippians 1:6
… Now, no one will be so foolhardy as to assert that the good work which, according to the Prayer-Book, is begun in an infant at its so …
SERMON • SERMON 1509The Best of All Sights
Hebrews 2:9
… There remains nothing of all the past to cause a dread of punishment, or arouse a fear of desertion, for Christ who died always lives to make intercession …
SERMON • SERMON 1784Unbelief Condemned and Faith Commended
Deuteronomy 32:20
… If, then, God has made the efficacy of prayer to turn upon faith, He must have a high estimate of it! He has made faith to be the …
SERMON • SERMON 756Work
John 9:4
… He knew not how to take His ease even at night— "Cold mountains and the midnight air Witnessed the fervor of His prayer." And when He was faint …
SERMON • SERMON 608A Discourse For A Revival Season
Jeremiah 8:19
… True prayer is an astonishing thing! Prevalent intercession is an amazing thing—and if you want to see something that will really thrill you with a holy wonder …
SERMON • SERMON 2437Prayer, the Proof of Godliness
Psalm 32:6
… Prayer should be the natural outflow of the soul—you should pray because you must pray, not because the set time for praying has arrived—but because your …
SERMON • SERMON 724His Name—The Everlasting Father
Isaiah 9:6
… Be this our prayer, that "we may know Him," and be this our desire, that "we may grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and …
COMMENTARYPsalm 141
Psalm 141
… Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense. Literally, Let my prayer, incense, be set in order before Thee,—implying that prayer was in the reality …
SERMON • SERMON 16Paul's First Prayer
Acts 9:11
… True, there are some of your professedly praying people that have not a bit of prayer in them. But whenever you find a really praying man, trust him …
SERMON • SERMON 3484Daniel—a Pattern for Pleaders
Daniel 9:19
… If you are praying for that which will greatly glorify Him, you may rest assured your prayer will speed. But if it does not speed, and it is …
SERMON • SERMON 985The Touchstone of Godly Sincerity
Job 27:10
… Will this hypocrite pray at all such times, or will he only select some of the seasons for prayer? Will he only be found praying at certain times …