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  • A Little Boy's Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,021 views

    A little Boy’s Prayer "Dear God, please take care of my daddy and my mommy and my sister and my brother and my doggy and me. Oh, please take care of yourself, God. If anything happens to ...read more

  • Prayer Is The Acid Test

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,392 views

    "Prayer is the acid test of ...read more

  • God Answers Prayers  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 26, 2001
    based on 168 ratings
     | 7,222 views

    GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS Have you ever heard of George Mueller? One day he looked down the streets of Bristol, England, & saw 100’s of homeless children. He was so moved with concern for them that he decided that something had to be done. He had only two pence in his pocket. That’s two cents. ...read more

  • Prayer Customer Service  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Warren on Apr 19, 2001
    based on 217 ratings
     | 3,292 views

    Good afternoon, I am God. Today I will be handling all of your problems. Pleae remember that I do not need your help. If the devil happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, DO NOT attempt to resolve it. Kindly put it in the SFJTD (something for Jesus to do) box. It will ...read more

  • Six Chairs Of Prayer

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,052 views

    Six Chairs of Prayer Chair One: My attitude towards prayer is that it is not important. I have no motivation to pray and no desire to pray. Nothing is happening in my life in regards to prayer. Chair Two: My attitude towards prayer is that it is optional. I have a motivation and a desire to pray ...read more

  • A Prayer For Wells Of Salvation

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Mar 29, 2008
     | 2,006 views

    A prayer for wells of Salvation: Lord God, amighty God I ask by your creative power that you would open the hearts of all who hear and read these words to your son Jesus Christ, Lord Jesus I pray that we would let you into our hearts by faith and surrender to you and Lord I ask as you promise that ...read more

  • Prayer For Future Generations  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,556 views

    PRAYER FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS In Point Man, Steve Farrar tells the story of George McCluskey. When McCluskey married and started a family, he decided to invest one hour a day in prayer, because he wanted his kids to follow Christ. After a time, he expanded his prayers to include his grandchildren ...read more

  • The Prayer Of Intercession Is Thelevel Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 3,620 views

    "The prayer of intercession is thelevel of prayer in which we share the burden of Christ for a person, ...read more

  • Christian People Are Prayerful  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,778 views

    E.M. Bounds says in his book on prayer: Nothing distinguishes the children of God so clearly and strongly as prayer. It is the one infallible mark and test of being a Christian. Christian people are prayerful. The worldly-minded are prayer less. Christians call on God. The world ignores God and ...read more

  • My Unspoken Prayers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,965 views

    An unknown confederate soldier wrote: I asked God for strength that I might achieve I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey I asked for health that I might do greater things I was given infirmity that I might do better things I asked for riches that I might be happy I was given poverty ...read more

  • Gratitude = Short Prayers  PRO

    Contributed by Bledar Valca on Apr 14, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,816 views

    GRATITUDE = SHORT PRAYERS Few years ago, we had Carl Mitchell of Harding University come to Albania and do series of lectures on family life and issues. Other then the lectures he gave, we asked him to preach for us on Sunday. I vividly remember that as he was talking about gratitude or ...read more

  • George Washington's Prayer

    Contributed by Jeffrey Powell on May 25, 2009
     | 2,904 views

    GEORGE WASHINGTON'S PRAYER We have a rich history of how God miraculously intervened in the creation of this nation. You won’t read this in the public school history books because anti-Christian writers take great pains to remove God’s handiwork in the building of America. In 1776, British ...read more

  • Intercession: Pyramid Prayer?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
     | 5,814 views

    INTERCESSION: PYRAMID PRAYER? Philip Yancey in his book on prayer tells of a young American soldier in Iraq who learns that his wife back home has advanced cervical cancer. Doctors gave a bleak prognosis. In desperation, he sent an urgent email to his church with the request that everyone in turn ...read more

  • Joy And Prayer In Suffering  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
    based on 18 ratings
     | 6,635 views

    JOY AND PRAYER IN SUFFERING The fact that God chooses to love the unworthy should move us to loud praise frequently. Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid-1950’s her father, British minister W.E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a dragging in his leg. When he ...read more

  • Prayer, According To The Mishna

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 28, 2009
     | 1,321 views

    PRAYER, ACCORDING TO THE MISHNA "One who says the Tefillah so that it can be heard is of the small of faith; he who raises his voice in praying is of the false prophets; he who belches and yawns is of the arrogant; if he sneezes during his prayer it is a bad sign for him — some say, it shows that ...read more

  • Prayer And Chopping Vegetables

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 26, 2010
     | 1,244 views

    PRAYER AND CHOPPING VEGETABLES Jan and I were watching a cooking show the other day -- Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa, I think it was -- and I commented on how Ina chops vegetables. In this instance, she was chopping parsley, and she held the knife in one hand while resting her other hand on top ...read more

  • This Priestly Prayer, As It Is Called, Was ...

    Contributed by Michael Tkachuk on May 17, 2010
     | 2,279 views

    This priestly prayer, as it is called, was prayed by Jesus just before He entered Gethsemane and Golgotha. This portion of the Gospel is somewhat like a flight-recorder on an airplane. In the event that something should happen to a plane, the flight recorder would record the information, the ...read more

  • Prayer And The Continental Congress

    Contributed by Curtis Emerson on Jun 8, 2010
     | 2,854 views

    PRAYER AND THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS We need to remember Rev. Jacob Duché who, at the first meeting of the Continental Congress in Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia on September 7, 1774, was asked to come and open that session with prayer. "He read from the 35th Psalm and prayed for three hours. John ...read more

  • Prayer: Form Vs. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2010
     | 4,606 views

    Prayer: Form vs. Substance There was a man who would start his day by kneeling beside his bed and spending an hour or so in prayer. But he had a cat that would disturb him and would nuzzle up against him. So to keep his cat from disturbing his prayer time, he would tie the cat to his bedpost. His ...read more

  • Believing In The Power Of Prayer

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
     | 3,202 views

    BELIEVING IN THE POWER OF PRAYER When a night club opened on the main street of a small American town, the local Church held an all-night prayer meeting. One member asked God to burn it down. Within a few moments, lightning struck the club and it was burnt to the ground. The owner sued the ...read more

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