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                    FERVENT PRAYER
 
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, future US Presidents, were among the delegates meeting at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, on March 23, 1775, considering a resolution sending Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. The Virginia House of Burgesses was unconvinced.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "You must pray with all your might.  That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you.  It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God...This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 14, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "So we preach repentance to you today.  We call you as the Spirit constantly calls all of us, to turn from sin, to turn from worldly thinking, to turn outward from ourselves, to God, to seek Him, to seek Godly thinking and acting so that we might effectually follow
                    
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                    Contributed by Charles Jones on Mar 28, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "PRAYING HE PRAYED"
The Characteristic of the prayer of Elijah was his FERVENCY. He prayed fervently.
He used that particular Hebrew idiom - "praying he prayed." In other words when he prayed he got down to business. Remember that the prayer of a righteous man is of great force when energized -
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Dec 12, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    JESUS COMES AS LIGHT
"Jesus has come, moreover, not as a blaze which will soon die down, but as a light which will last our day, yea, last for ever. After the long dark and cold night of our misery, the Lord comes in the fittest and most effectual manner; neither as lightning, nor candle, nor
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Aug 21, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ZACCHAEUS AND THE DRAGON'S DEN
Imagine Zacchaeus before The Dragons Den, (TV show where businessmen invest their millions). Imagine the corrupt entrepreneur Zack making his pitch. Duncan Bannatyne and the other dragons are not going to invest there millions into such a dubious character  (rip him
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 8, 2025
                
                
                
                    [191].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – MY SAVIOUR CALLED ME UNTO HIM
This is a generic poem, that it, it is a testimony of one coming to salvation, but it is not exactly mine for I was saved when 10 or 11.
If you like, it is a synthesis of the elements contained in salvation.  Certain aspects must be
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    James the Great
The next martyr we meet with, according to St. Luke, in the History of the Apostles’ Acts, was James the son of Zebedee, the elder brother of John, and a relative of our Lord; for his mother Salome was cousin-german to the Virgin Mary. It was not until ten years after the death of
                    
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