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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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                    "Hell, about which our fathers spoke so fervently, seems to have cooled off so much that it would
                    
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                    Brother Jim H. Warren, my mentor and father in the faith; had witnessed my preaching on several occasions while I was in training under him, in Biloxi, MS, in 1967. He was a dynamic preacher; full of faith and powerful in his delivery of the word of God. After hearing my second sermon, he felt the
                    
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                    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jun 7, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    During a recent Sunday worship service, a congregation was singing the worship chorus that goes: "I exalt thee, oh Lord...” A mother of a 5-year-old girl glanced down and realized that her daughter was fervently singing,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE AIR WAR
It was said of Desert Storm, “the air war won the ground war.”  The fervent, faithful praying of a few in a well-developed prayer center can win the ground war for the troops of Christians going out into their places of work and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE ARITHMETIC OF HEAVEN
Someone asked Daniel Webster, who happened to be a fervent Christian, "How can a man of your intellect believe in the Trinity?" 
"I do not pretend fully to understand the arithmetic of heaven now," he replied.
SOURCE:  "God in Three Persons: A Doctrine
                    
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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 Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    An African pastor once told of a construction worker that fell on a nail, and as a result, got tetanus. The people in his church fervently prayed and fasted, but the man died. When they had the funeral, however, it turned out to be a crusade! Many people came to a saving knowledge of Christ as a
                    
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                    A number of years ago I read a newspaper article about a man who was a member of a religious cult that believed that the utilization of modern medical science was unneccessary and any needed healing 
which a person needed could be accomplished through fervent prayer. His wife, who was 8 months into
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 14, 2008
                
                
                
                    “Finding one’s purpose with God can be a strange and mysterious journey; or, it can be as plain as asking God for a task and then watching your desire for that task grow within you. Problem is, most of us forget to ask God to fill us with a fervent spirit to serve Him.  Then, years later, we wake
                    
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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 Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [The Point: To get serious results to prayer, get serious about prayer.]
Acts 12:1-19 (Herod imprisons Peter; prayer releases him.)
Here are various translations of verse 5:
"Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him." (KJV)
"So Peter
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 25, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A young boy was observed by a minister in church praying very fervently; but much to the preacher’s surprise, he was also heard to say from time to time: "Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo."  So preacher approached the boy after he had apparently finished his prayer and said, "Son, I was very pleased to see you
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 11, 2014
                
                
                
                    What do these dates have in common (1248, 1306, 1689, 1792, 1836, 1844, 1914, 1936, 1960, 1974, 1981, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 2011)? They all represent the times in which people predicted that the second coming of Christ would occur. No one, not even Jesus knows the exact time of Christ’s coming.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 20, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There once was a man who very adamantly believed in living by faith.  He believed that, so long as he prayed in Jesus’ name, believing in faith that God would provide his need, he would receive whatever he asked for.  One day he stood up in church and declared that from that day forward, he was
                    
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