Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal
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Contributed by David Yarbrough on Oct 14, 2001
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PRAYER WORKS
The researchers at Columbia University conducted a study with 199 women at an in vitro fertilization clinic in Korea. Unknown to the patients and their doctors, groups of strangers from the US, Canada, and Australia were asked to pray for their success in getting pregnant.
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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PRAYERS ANSWERED
I have had prayers answered--most strangely so sometimes--but I think our heavenly Father’s loving-kindness has been even more evident
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 25, 2002
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THE POSITION OF PRAYER
In Texas, when a cold air mass moves down from Canada, people sometimes refer to it as a "Blue Northern," and it makes its presence felt! You can feel the wind blow as the high pressure cold air rushes into the warmer area of lower pressure. The greater the difference in
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Contributed by Andrew Clark on Aug 22, 2002
A Methodist Prayer
I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, rank me with who you will.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be employed for you, or laid aside for you.
Exalted for you, or brought low for you.
Let me be full, let me be empty,
Let me have all things, let me
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Holiness
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1. Power of Prayer Story: From Preachers Stories
a. A. T. Pierson relates the following story: "Some years ago in the great State of Minnesota, the Granary of the West, there came a scourge of grasshoppers that threatened to destroy the whole wheat crop. The Governor, who was a very devout
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 8, 2004
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ILLUSTRATION... Prayer is the link by AB Simpson
Prayer is the link that connects us with God. It is the bridge that spans every gulf and bears us over every
abyss of danger or of need. How significant is this picture of the New Testament church: Peter in prison, the Jews triumphant, Herod
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2004
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THE STATS ON PRAYER
A Newsweek poll several years ago titled "Is God Listening?" indicated that 54% of those the magazine surveyed prayed on a daily basis - 25% said they pray to God once a day and 29% more than once a day.
87% believed that God answers their prayers at least some of the time.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2004
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UNANSWERED PRAYER
Cable television tycoon Ted Turner has often been quoted as being critical of fundamentalist Christianity. Turner made some very revealing remarks at a banquet in Orlando, Fla., in 1990, where he was given an award by the American Humanist Association for his work on behalf of
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Contributed by James Chandler on Mar 18, 2007
I once visited the practice of a College
basketball coach who coached for Bobby
Knight, Coach K from Duke. At the end of
his practice he “shared” Christ. He led
them in the Sinners prayer.
The problem that I have with the Sinner’s
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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The Weight of a Prayer
Louise Redden, a poorly dressed lady with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery store. She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her charge a few groceries. She softly explained that her husband was very ill and
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 21, 2011
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THE PRAYER AND THE CHAIR
A woman called a pastor to come to the house to see her father. He goes to the house not knowing whether the man is Christian or not but he notices as he talks to him and the man answers back that he must be a Christian and there is a chair sitting close by. An empty
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