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  • Revival Begins In The Prayer Closet

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 31, 2022
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    E.M. Bounds, who was born in 1835, began his three-hour prayer routine at 4am. To him, prayer was not a prelude; it was a priority. Edward Payson, who ministered during the Second Great Awakening, was said to have worn grooves into his hardwood floors as a result of prayer. Adoniram Judson ...read more

  • The Prayer Closet Is The Arena Which Produces The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,488 views

    The prayer closet is the arena which produces the overcomer. ...read more

  • First Things First  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Nov 3, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,365 views

    FIRST THINGS FIRST When Coach Bobby Bowden played baseball in college, he never hit a home run. His senior year at Howard College, he was the only player not to hit a home run. One day, he hit a line drive against Auburn. As he approached third, the coach was waving him on. As he made his turn, ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 4, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,782 views

    Corrie Ten Boom on Prayer It was Corrie Ten Boom who asked, “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tyre?” I am afraid for too many of us it is the spare tyre, the source we look to only when our journey has ground to a halt, but really, it ought to be our steering wheel, and Jesus teaches us ...read more

  • The Cluttered Closet

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 19, 2008
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    THE CLUTTERED CLOSET Mark 12:29-31 Object: Picture of a cluttered closet Objective: Sometimes we must take the time to pull all the "stuff" out of the closet and go through it piece by piece if we want to bring order to chaos. In my house there is a closet that I call the "junk closet." This ...read more

  • All In The Closet

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 17, 2008
     | 1,615 views

    Robert C. Tuttle told this: Some years ago, after a vigorous brotherly and sisterly disagreement, our three children retired only to be aroused at two o'clock in the morning by a terrific thunderstorm. Hearing an unusual noise upstairs I called in to find out ...read more

  • Skeletons In Our Closets

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
     | 2,024 views

    SKELETONS IN OUR CLOSETS The Rockefeller family is considered to be one of the most philanthropic families in the world, helping humanity globally in issues like economics, religion, education and environmental affairs. Yet the Rockefeller family tree is filled with many skeletons. William Avery ...read more

  • Doubt Is The Skeleton In The Closet Of Faith And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,754 views

    “Doubt is the skeleton in the closet of faith and I know no better way to treat a skeleton than to bring it into the open and expose it for what it is: not something to hide or fear, but a hard structure on which living tissue may grow.” Philip Yancey, Reaching for the ...read more

  • When You Think About The Blessings Of God, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    When you think about the blessings of God, remember one child’s description of an elevator: “I got into this little room and the upstairs came down.” That’s a good description of being in your prayer closet, then receiving ...read more

  • Preacher Found A Shoe Box In A Closet. Opened It ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Feb 20, 2003
    based on 174 ratings
     | 1,995 views

    PREACHER found a shoe box in a closet. Opened it and found strange contents. Inside was an egg carton with 5 eggs inside. Next to the eggs was a stack of bills that totaled over 10,000 dollars. As soon as his wife walked thru the door he stopped her to ask if she knew anything about this odd ...read more

  • The Mother Of The Holiness Movement

    Contributed by John Putty on Apr 5, 2011
     | 2,196 views

    THE MOTHER OF THE HOLINESS MOVEMENT From the book, "The Cure of All Ills", Revivalist record the impact of the prayer life of Phobe Palmer in the holiness movement. In this spiral of spiritual, social, moral and political degeneracy of the decade preceding 1857, God looked for a man, but he found ...read more

  • Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Oct 15, 2001
    based on 57 ratings
     | 12,504 views

    Prayer "I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get ...read more

  • Prayer For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,771 views

    Prayer for Compassion Then we can pray a prayer like David Mains prayed years ago. He was once pastor of the Circle Urban Church, an inner city church in Chicago, and one day, in the course of his ministry among such great need, he prayed, “Lord, let me see the world as you see it, and break my ...read more

  • Prayer

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 25, 2016
     | 14,159 views

    Chris Jeffries tells the story of Roy who was feeling frustrated that he was not able to do what he felt he was born to do. So he prayed for Our Father to change something. Then there was a knock at the door and they met two strangers, a married couple. They invited them in and sat them down at ...read more

  • Prayer: It Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
     | 11,722 views

    PRAYER: IT IS TAKEN John Oxtoby, who was affectionately known as "Praying Johnny" was sent to hold a revival in Filey. He stopped under a hedge and he wrestled in prayer for the success of his mission. A passer-by heard Johnny Oxtoby’s prayer: "Will thou make a fool of me, God? I told them at the ...read more

  • Prayer

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 13, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,882 views

    This statement is many times use as a stand alone statement without regards to the actual meaning. When the context has to be considered and an understanding of who God is and his teachings are most important. A famous Bible scholar John Gill puts it this way: For whatever is asked in faith, ...read more

  • Prayer

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 9, 2025
     | 774 views

    I read where a family bought a PRAYER BOOK for their son. Each night the boy would read a prayer before going to sleep. He was faithful to read a prayer. One night the boy was tired. He turned the light off and crawled into bed. He remember the prayer book. That night he called out to God: ...read more

  • Prayer

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 21, 2025
     | 71 views

    Story: A friend of mine, Alun Morris was a pastor in a Swiss Pentecostal Church for many years. One day, he went to a funeral and saw a man who he knew to be an atheist come into church and bow his head for about a minute in front of the altar as he came in. It seemed to Alun that the man was ...read more

  • Leonard Ravenhill (While Revival Tarries, Chapter ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 15, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,586 views

    Leonard Ravenhill (While Revival Tarries, Chapter 2, Prayer Grasps Eternity) No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop-window to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows no ...read more

  • On Prayer--Part ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
     | 3,485 views

    ON PRAYER--PART 2 Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament in the seventeenth century, who is now most famous for his diary. "Prayer is not a lazy substitute for work. It is not a shortcut to skill or knowledge. And sometimes God delays the answer to our prayer in ...read more