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  • Bonnie Laughlin's Answered Prayer

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Nov 16, 2010
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    BONNIE LAUGHLIN'S ANSWERED PRAYER Psalms 27:13 says, “I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.” One sacrifice made by Bonnie K. Laughlin was the Christian homeschooling of her son, Caleb Laughlin. Bonnie saw that Caleb needed to develop his ...read more

  • Explaining God's Answers To Prayers

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
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    EXPLAINING GOD'S ANSWERS TO PRAYERS During the reign of Abdullah the Third, there was a great drought in Baghdad. The Muslim doctors issued a decree that the prayers of the faithful should be offered up for rain; the drought continued. The Jews were then permitted to add their prayers; ...read more

  • God Anoints Men Of Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jan 9, 2011
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    GOD ANOINTS MEN OF PRAYER E. M. Bounds says in his classic book, The Power of Prayer: "Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men...What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but ...read more

  • Hidden Prayer Results In Revival

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2011
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    HIDDEN PRAYER RESULTS IN REVIVAL I heard Brother John Harrell of Bridge City, Texas tell of a church up in the piney woods of east Texas that began to have a tremendous breakthrough revival. An evangelist came in and they started their series of meetings and from the beginning of the meeting, all ...read more

  • George Mueller On Persistence In Prayer

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2011
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    GEORGE MUELLER ON PERSISTENCE IN PRAYER George Mueller: "It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray alright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believing, continue in prayer until we obtain an ...read more

  • Paul Tournier On Persisting In Prayer

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2011
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    PAUL TOURNIER ON PERSISTING IN PRAYER Paul Tournier, the great psychiatrist and Christian counselor, tells in one his essays about the first time he tried to pray for a solid hour. He says that he set his watch on the table and began to pray, and after what he thought was a good while, checked the ...read more

  • Weak Prayer, Weak Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 7, 2013
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    WEAK PRAYER, WEAK FAITH Bill Hybels, "I used to make excuses for my faint-hearted prayer life. I don’t have any good models of persevering prayer, I told myself. I have too many responsibilities to fulfill, so I don’t have the time to pray properly. But God convinced me that I was not being honest ...read more

  • Prayer And Revival - Jonathan Edwards

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on May 24, 2018
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    Here are only a few examples: It is God’s will through his wonderful grace, that the prayers of his saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ’s kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for his church, it is his will that ...read more

  • The Five Finger Prayer Formula

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 10, 2024
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    Prayer is a conversation with God, not a formula. Yet sometimes we might need to use a “method” to freshen up our prayer time. We can pray the Psalms or other Scriptures (such as The Lord’s Prayer), or use the ACTS method (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication). I recently came ...read more

  • Miracles Through Prayer In China

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 15, 2024
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    In his book Sit, Walk, Stand, Watchman Nee describes a preaching mission to an island off the South China coast. There were seven in the ministering group, including a sixteen-year-old new convert whom he calls Brother Wu. The island was fairly large, containing about 6,000 homes. Nee had a contact ...read more

  • Prayer As Our Heavy Artillery

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 9, 2024
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    In Ephesians 6:18, Paul has completed the metaphor of Roman armor. But he is not finished teaching about spiritual warfare. In fact, he has come to the most important weapon in our spiritual arsenal. Prayer is the heavy artillery. Through prayer we call down the bombardment of God against our ...read more

  • Doing Nothing  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2002
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     | 2,910 views

    DOING NOTHING Make a commitment to be under-committed. (If you don’t hear anything else this morning, hear this... Make a commitment to be under-committed.) Look at your calendar and make sure there are lots of blank spaces. Stop saying "It will slow down when..." Because it won’t. Quindlen ...read more

  • What Not To Do  PRO

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
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    WHAT NOT TO DO The new millenium brought out the worst in parenting, and no parenting methods were criticized more harshly than those of captured American Taliban, John Lindh Walker. When Lindh Walker was 10, the family from Washington State moved to socially liberal Marin County, just over the ...read more

  • Do It Anyway  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Vicente on Jun 7, 2003
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    DO IT ANYWAY While we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith (Galatians 6:10). People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. ………Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior ...read more

  • Do Christianity  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2005
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    When we experience unconditional love…we live in the light of God’s love we will have hope. Life is about learning how to love. His love for you is unconditional. James Van Tholen in his book “Where All Hope Lies” Writes: From the human perspective, when you compare (God ) to the other gods ...read more

  • Just Do It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    JUST DO IT Dr. J.B. Gambrel tells an amusing story from General Stonewall Jackson’s famous valley campaign. Jackson’s army found itself on one side of a river when it needed to be on the other side. After telling his engineers to plan and build a bridge so the army could cross, he called his wagon ...read more

  • Do Not Be Ignorant

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 20, 2008
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    Do Not Be Ignorant Paul opens Chapter 10 by telling the Corinthian Christians to not be ignorant to not be ag-no-eh-o which means the following: The Greek word for "ignorant" - ἀãíïέù, agnoeō, ag-no-eh'-o. Not to know (through lack of information or intelligence); by ...read more

  • Everybody's Doing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    “Everybody’s doing it.” This is a common phrase used today to excuse our behavior, but it is no excuse. We were shocked a decade ago when youth ministries guru Josh McDowell did an extensive survey of Bible-believing church teens that showed that more than half of them were sexually active, even ...read more

  • The Sin Of Doing ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jun 28, 2010
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    THE SIN OF DOING NOTHING I was hungry and you formed a humanities club and discussed my hunger. I was imprisoned and you crept off quietly to your chapel and prayed for my release. I was naked and in your mind you debated the morality of my appearance. I was sick and you knelt and thanked God ...read more

  • Do It Again

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 28, 2011
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     | 1,466 views

    DO IT AGAIN G. K. Chesterton wrote: "Because children have abounding vitality, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged... They always say, 'Do it again,' and the grown-up does it again until he is nearly dead... But perhaps God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every ...read more