Draw Near to God: The Supreme Need
Draw Near to God: The Supreme Need
What is the answer to all of the unfulfilled desires that eat away at mankind? The supreme need for mankind is to draw near to God and to know Him.
The Spirit’s Help in Prayer
The Spirit’s Help in Prayer
First, notice that the Spirit is a helper. Jesus calls Him that. He is not "our little helper", but it is more like the king helping...
Are You in the Inner Circle?
Are You in the Inner Circle?
How often are you looking up and beholding Christ as you go about your day? Do you look to Christ in all that you do? There are some Christians in the innermost circle who keep their eyes on the life-giving rays...
Pray Like a Lawyer
Pray Like a Lawyer
Many people pray, but how many people ask themselves why God should actually answer their prayers? How many Christians know how to argue with God in prayer?
Effectual & Ineffectual Prayers
Effectual & Ineffectual Prayers
The Bible encourages us to pray, and even when our prayers are ineffectual we shouldn't be discouraged because God uses them.
The Christian’s Boldness and Confidence
The Christian’s Boldness and Confidence
Jesus Christ is the Christian's foundation for having bold access to God. It is not our performance that allows us to come boldly before God, but the merits of Christ.
God’s Sovereignty and Our Prayers
God’s Sovereignty and Our Prayers
A concept that some people have difficulty with is trying to reconcile the sovereignty of God with our prayers. Does God's sovereignty make our prayers unnecessary or irrelevant?
Make God’s Name Your Argument in Prayer
Make God’s Name Your Argument in Prayer
God has great concern for His Name and what this world says about Him. We should appeal to God's Name for the sake of answering our prayers. Are your prayers related to God's Name and reputation?
Spiritual Progress: Prayer (Order & Argument)
Spiritual Progress: Prayer (Order & Argument)
When we pray, we ought to be able to make a case before God why He should answer our prayers. We should be able to argue and reason with God...
Paul, Teach Me to Pray
Paul, Teach Me to Pray
What can we learn from the apostle Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3? One notable thing Paul prays for is that Christ would dwell in the hearts of the Ephesians.
We Need Intercessors in the Church!
We Need Intercessors in the Church!
Intercessors don't come from marginally spiritual people. They come from people who walk close with the Lord, and who also love other Christians.
Pray to the Father For Others
Pray to the Father For Others
In the last section of Ephesians 3, we get the privilege of seeing a prayer that's inspired of the Holy Spirit. Paul addressed God as his Father...
Seek God and Go From Fear to Faith
Seek God and Go From Fear to Faith
How did King David go from being full of fear to being full of praise and adoration to God? It was by seeking the Lord through prayer.
Ten Characteristics of How Jesus Prayed
Ten Characteristics of How Jesus Prayed
Jesus prayed to His Father with reverence, in simple language, in an orderly way, while full of faith and confidence, and having an ultimate concern for God's glory.
A Threefold Cord: Secret Prayer, Doing Good, and Self-Denial
A Threefold Cord: Secret Prayer, Doing Good, and Self-Denial
Believer, in this upcoming year live a life with the threefold cord of secret prayer, doing good, and self-denial. As you secretly commune...
The Barrenness of Busyness
The Barrenness of Busyness
King Solomon was an example of someone who had a fatal downward spiral in his walk with God. It didn't happen overnight. It was a slow process of compromise.
Lord, Teach Us to Pray
Lord, Teach Us to Pray
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."
A Warning Against Lazy Praying
A Warning Against Lazy Praying
When we gather together in our prayer meetings there should be a militancy about those prayers. Is there the smell of war on those prayers? Because we are at war.
Effectual Prayer Empowered by the Spirit
Effectual Prayer Empowered by the Spirit
I am all for sharpening our minds... and a greater theological understanding, but we cannot afford for it to stop there. Does your theology make your heart dance?
The Necessity of Daily Praying and Reading the Bible
The Necessity of Daily Praying and Reading the Bible
As the believer daily renews their mind in the Scriptures, and in prayer they cast themselves upon the Lord - they will walk in purity. When you find a...
Asking in Prayer
Asking in Prayer
John 14:13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Call to Me and I Will Answer You (Jeremiah 33:3)
Call to Me and I Will Answer You (Jeremiah 33:3)
God calls us to call upon Him in prayer. When we cry to Him, He promises to answer us and show us great and hidden things that we have not known. Jeremiah 33:3 says...
Homiletics: The Preacher’s Prayer Life (Part 3b)
Homiletics: The Preacher’s Prayer Life (Part 3b)
Those who are not disciplined and do not give priority to prayer in their life should not be preaching. Their prayerlessness is a statement that they have not yet grasped...
How to Pray like an Apostle
How to Pray like an Apostle
I’ve often considered it to be a significant measure of a person’s spiritual maturity to simply ask somebody, “How much do you pray for others?”
God Answers Prayer
God Answers Prayer
Prayer is not just a formality, but when we pray we're asking God to do something that would not have happened unless we prayed.
The Vital Importance of Prayer
The Vital Importance of Prayer
Here are six reasons on the vital importance of prayer. 1) Prayer as communion to God, is the goal of the Gospel. 2) Prayer as asking...
Prayer that Tears the Roof Off if Necessary
Prayer that Tears the Roof Off if Necessary
Here they said we're not going to turn back, we will tear the roof off if necessary. We're going to get him in there to Jesus. And he went home walking...
Persistence is Necessary
Persistence is Necessary
Yet in these parables the Lord Jesus is telling us ahead of time that persistence is necessary in the Christian life.
The Impossible – Fellowship Conference New England
The Impossible – Fellowship Conference New England
Beloved, we have every reason to ask God for the impossible. To save those to whom it appears impossible to be saved. To send revival to places where it seems hardened beyond hope.
Pray!
Pray!
Prayer is signally the holiest and most spiritual exercise of mortal men. Carnal flesh shrinks and flees from it. It is cause for spiritual alarm when we find ourselves...
Laying Hold of The Lord in Prayer
Laying Hold of The Lord in Prayer
When revival and true conversion happens, it is not because of some person taking clever initiative and having a new idea, but it is because God came in power.
Dangerous Prayer
Dangerous Prayer
Paul said, "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." One of the ways this happens is by us trusting the LORD in prayer and praying in a way that is dangerous to the devil.
Jesus in Gethsemane: The Praying Victorious Man (Part 2)
Jesus in Gethsemane: The Praying Victorious Man (Part 2)
We must be weaned off of dependence on man. We must first learn to cry out to the One who will never turn a deaf ear to our cries.
Continue Steadfastly in Prayer
Continue Steadfastly in Prayer
How much do I really believe that without Him I can do nothing? Here is the answer: I believe it to the degree that I continue steadfastly in prayer.
How Do You Hear From God?
How Do You Hear From God?
What do you say to a believer who comes to you and says, "How do you hear from God? How do you know when God is trying to talk to you?"
Ask and You Shall Receive
Ask and You Shall Receive
Jesus says, "I say to you, Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened." What a promise!
The Prayer Life of Our Lord
The Prayer Life of Our Lord
The prayer life of our Lord is that which we should strive to imitate and look at carefully as we study the Scriptures.
God Has Made Promises to Us
God Has Made Promises to Us
God has made promises to us and He who has made them always fulfills those promises. Now here is the question...
The Relationship of Love and Prayer
The Relationship of Love and Prayer
If you are pouring out your life for others it is going to have a direct impact when you go into the prayer closet. When we love the brethren, John says it gives us assurance that we are Christians and that makes us c...
Men of Prayer in History
Men of Prayer in History
As we look at men of prayer in history we find it true as Oswald Chambers said, "Prayer does not fit us for the greater works;...
Mountain Moving Prayer
Mountain Moving Prayer
Remember that one of the greatest evidences of a lack of faith is that you don't pray, because if you really have faith in a prayer-hearing God, you are going to be praying.
Some Thoughts on Walking With God
Some Thoughts on Walking With God
I want more, but overall I know what it is like to be walking with God.
Missions and Prayer
Missions and Prayer
We cannot begin to do missions if we are not a praying people.
A Story of Hudson Taylor’s Answer to Prayer
A Story of Hudson Taylor’s Answer to Prayer
Thus God encouraged me, upon landing on China's shores, to bring every variety of need to Him in prayer,...
When a man really prays it is not a question whether God will hear him or not, He must hear him; not because there is any compulsion in the prayer, but there is a sweet and blessed compulsion in the promise. God has promised to hear prayer and He will perform His promise. As he is the most high and true God, He cannot deny himself. Oh! to think of this; that you, a puny creature, may stand here and speak to God, and through God may move all the worlds. – C.H. Spurgeon
Draw Near to God: The Supreme Need
Draw Near to God: The Supreme Need
What is the answer to all of the unfulfilled desires that eat away at mankind? The supreme need for mankind is to draw near to God and to know Him.
The Spirit’s Help in Prayer
The Spirit’s Help in Prayer
First, notice that the Spirit is a helper. Jesus calls Him that. He is not "our little helper", but it is more like the king helping...
Are You in the Inner Circle?
Are You in the Inner Circle?
How often are you looking up and beholding Christ as you go about your day? Do you look to Christ in all that you do? There are some Christians in the innermost circle who keep their eyes on the life-giving rays...
Pray Like a Lawyer
Pray Like a Lawyer
Many people pray, but how many people ask themselves why God should actually answer their prayers? How many Christians know how to argue with God in prayer?
Effectual & Ineffectual Prayers
Effectual & Ineffectual Prayers
The Bible encourages us to pray, and even when our prayers are ineffectual we shouldn't be discouraged because God uses them.
The Christian’s Boldness and Confidence
The Christian’s Boldness and Confidence
Jesus Christ is the Christian's foundation for having bold access to God. It is not our performance that allows us to come boldly before God, but the merits of Christ.
God’s Sovereignty and Our Prayers
God’s Sovereignty and Our Prayers
A concept that some people have difficulty with is trying to reconcile the sovereignty of God with our prayers. Does God's sovereignty make our prayers unnecessary or irrelevant?
Make God’s Name Your Argument in Prayer
Make God’s Name Your Argument in Prayer
God has great concern for His Name and what this world says about Him. We should appeal to God's Name for the sake of answering our prayers. Are your prayers related to God's Name and reputation?
Spiritual Progress: Prayer (Order & Argument)
Spiritual Progress: Prayer (Order & Argument)
When we pray, we ought to be able to make a case before God why He should answer our prayers. We should be able to argue and reason with God...
Paul, Teach Me to Pray
Paul, Teach Me to Pray
What can we learn from the apostle Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3? One notable thing Paul prays for is that Christ would dwell in the hearts of the Ephesians.
We Need Intercessors in the Church!
We Need Intercessors in the Church!
Intercessors don't come from marginally spiritual people. They come from people who walk close with the Lord, and who also love other Christians.
Pray to the Father For Others
Pray to the Father For Others
In the last section of Ephesians 3, we get the privilege of seeing a prayer that's inspired of the Holy Spirit. Paul addressed God as his Father...
Seek God and Go From Fear to Faith
Seek God and Go From Fear to Faith
How did King David go from being full of fear to being full of praise and adoration to God? It was by seeking the Lord through prayer.
Ten Characteristics of How Jesus Prayed
Ten Characteristics of How Jesus Prayed
Jesus prayed to His Father with reverence, in simple language, in an orderly way, while full of faith and confidence, and having an ultimate concern for God's glory.
A Threefold Cord: Secret Prayer, Doing Good, and Self-Denial
A Threefold Cord: Secret Prayer, Doing Good, and Self-Denial
Believer, in this upcoming year live a life with the threefold cord of secret prayer, doing good, and self-denial. As you secretly commune...
The Barrenness of Busyness
The Barrenness of Busyness
King Solomon was an example of someone who had a fatal downward spiral in his walk with God. It didn't happen overnight. It was a slow process of compromise.
Lord, Teach Us to Pray
Lord, Teach Us to Pray
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."
A Warning Against Lazy Praying
A Warning Against Lazy Praying
When we gather together in our prayer meetings there should be a militancy about those prayers. Is there the smell of war on those prayers? Because we are at war.
Effectual Prayer Empowered by the Spirit
Effectual Prayer Empowered by the Spirit
I am all for sharpening our minds... and a greater theological understanding, but we cannot afford for it to stop there. Does your theology make your heart dance?
The Necessity of Daily Praying and Reading the Bible
The Necessity of Daily Praying and Reading the Bible
As the believer daily renews their mind in the Scriptures, and in prayer they cast themselves upon the Lord - they will walk in purity. When you find a...
Asking in Prayer
Asking in Prayer
John 14:13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Call to Me and I Will Answer You (Jeremiah 33:3)
Call to Me and I Will Answer You (Jeremiah 33:3)
God calls us to call upon Him in prayer. When we cry to Him, He promises to answer us and show us great and hidden things that we have not known. Jeremiah 33:3 says...
Homiletics: The Preacher’s Prayer Life (Part 3b)
Homiletics: The Preacher’s Prayer Life (Part 3b)
Those who are not disciplined and do not give priority to prayer in their life should not be preaching. Their prayerlessness is a statement that they have not yet grasped...
How to Pray like an Apostle
How to Pray like an Apostle
I’ve often considered it to be a significant measure of a person’s spiritual maturity to simply ask somebody, “How much do you pray for others?”
God Answers Prayer
God Answers Prayer
Prayer is not just a formality, but when we pray we're asking God to do something that would not have happened unless we prayed.
The Vital Importance of Prayer
The Vital Importance of Prayer
Here are six reasons on the vital importance of prayer. 1) Prayer as communion to God, is the goal of the Gospel. 2) Prayer as asking...
Prayer that Tears the Roof Off if Necessary
Prayer that Tears the Roof Off if Necessary
Here they said we're not going to turn back, we will tear the roof off if necessary. We're going to get him in there to Jesus. And he went home walking...
Persistence is Necessary
Persistence is Necessary
Yet in these parables the Lord Jesus is telling us ahead of time that persistence is necessary in the Christian life.
The Impossible – Fellowship Conference New England
The Impossible – Fellowship Conference New England
Beloved, we have every reason to ask God for the impossible. To save those to whom it appears impossible to be saved. To send revival to places where it seems hardened beyond hope.
Pray!
Pray!
Prayer is signally the holiest and most spiritual exercise of mortal men. Carnal flesh shrinks and flees from it. It is cause for spiritual alarm when we find ourselves...
Laying Hold of The Lord in Prayer
Laying Hold of The Lord in Prayer
When revival and true conversion happens, it is not because of some person taking clever initiative and having a new idea, but it is because God came in power.
Dangerous Prayer
Dangerous Prayer
Paul said, "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." One of the ways this happens is by us trusting the LORD in prayer and praying in a way that is dangerous to the devil.
Jesus in Gethsemane: The Praying Victorious Man (Part 2)
Jesus in Gethsemane: The Praying Victorious Man (Part 2)
We must be weaned off of dependence on man. We must first learn to cry out to the One who will never turn a deaf ear to our cries.
Continue Steadfastly in Prayer
Continue Steadfastly in Prayer
How much do I really believe that without Him I can do nothing? Here is the answer: I believe it to the degree that I continue steadfastly in prayer.
How Do You Hear From God?
How Do You Hear From God?
What do you say to a believer who comes to you and says, "How do you hear from God? How do you know when God is trying to talk to you?"
Ask and You Shall Receive
Ask and You Shall Receive
Jesus says, "I say to you, Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened." What a promise!
The Prayer Life of Our Lord
The Prayer Life of Our Lord
The prayer life of our Lord is that which we should strive to imitate and look at carefully as we study the Scriptures.
God Has Made Promises to Us
God Has Made Promises to Us
God has made promises to us and He who has made them always fulfills those promises. Now here is the question...
The Relationship of Love and Prayer
The Relationship of Love and Prayer
If you are pouring out your life for others it is going to have a direct impact when you go into the prayer closet. When we love the brethren, John says it gives us assurance that we are Christians and that makes us c...
Men of Prayer in History
Men of Prayer in History
As we look at men of prayer in history we find it true as Oswald Chambers said, "Prayer does not fit us for the greater works;...
Mountain Moving Prayer
Mountain Moving Prayer
Remember that one of the greatest evidences of a lack of faith is that you don't pray, because if you really have faith in a prayer-hearing God, you are going to be praying.
Some Thoughts on Walking With God
Some Thoughts on Walking With God
I want more, but overall I know what it is like to be walking with God.
Missions and Prayer
Missions and Prayer
We cannot begin to do missions if we are not a praying people.
A Story of Hudson Taylor’s Answer to Prayer
A Story of Hudson Taylor’s Answer to Prayer
Thus God encouraged me, upon landing on China's shores, to bring every variety of need to Him in prayer,...