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  • Miracle Mandy

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 5, 2012
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    MIRACLE MANDY The doctor told Marsha Mark and her husband they would never have biological children. In their disappointment, Marsha clung to a friend's words: "Somehow, God is going to use your struggle with infertility for his glory." Marsha began to pray for a glimpse of that glory. "I asked ...read more

  • Two Women Praying

    Contributed by Robert Sickler on Mar 6, 2012
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    TWO WOMEN PRAYING There were two widow women, each with only a single son. The two young men both got involved in drugs and they both ended up in prison. The women were devout Christians and both had been in constant prayer for many years. When their two boys were sent to prison the one woman ...read more

  • I Wish I Had Known Then What I Know Now

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Mar 15, 2012
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    I WISH I HAD KNOWN THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW Mickey Mantle’s father was right handed and his grandfather was left handed. Between them, they taught him to switch hit. He is widely regarded to be the greatest switch hitter of all time, and one of the greatest players ever. He was inducted into the ...read more

  • God, Send Us Bigger Rattlesnakes  PRO

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 26, 2012
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    GOD, SEND US BIGGER RATTLESNAKES There was a farmer who had three sons: Jim, John, and Sam. No one in the family ever attended church or had time for God. The pastor and church members tried for years to interest the family in the things of God, but to no avail. Then one day, a rattlesnake bit ...read more

  • Praying He Prayed  PRO

    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 - ...read more

  • The Brother's Song

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Apr 13, 2012
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    THE BROTHER'S SONG Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare for his sister. Day after day and night after night, Michael sang to his sister in Mommy's tummy. He was building a bond of love ...read more

  • Pray First In Community

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 30, 2012
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    PRAY FIRST IN COMMUNITY Daniel Henderson: "In our culture of rugged individualism we have come to the conclusion that it is better to pray alone than with others.  Unfortunately, most of us never learn to do either one very well.  Like most disciplines of ...read more

  • Restore Your Passion

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 30, 2012
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    RESTORE YOUR PASSION Two strangers, a man and a woman, meet for the first time and instantaneously a spark of interest is ignited. They begin meeting once a week for dinner. But that isn’t enough. Their growing interest in one another demands more contact. Result: their telephone bill soars. They ...read more

  • Listening To God Compared To Listening To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2012
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    LISTENING TO GOD COMPARED TO LISTENING TO THE DOCTOR We should treat prayer for what it is, a two way conversation with God, and learn to be quiet long enough for him to get a word in edge ways. Nicky Gumbel, in his book Questions of Life compares it to a visit to the doctor, he writes “Suppose I ...read more

  • Paper Mud ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2012
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    PAPER MUD BALLS I heard of a traveler going through China who visited a temple where the people were making paper mud balls, wadding them up, and throwing them at an idol they were worshiping. If the mud ball stuck to the idol it meant that the idol would answer their prayers. If the mud ball ...read more

  • Praying Together: Greater Than The Sum Of Our ...

    Contributed by Christopher Gregas on Sep 8, 2012
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    PRAYING TOGETHER: GREATER THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS Someone wrote, "At a horse-pull in Canada, one horse pulled 9,000 pounds, another pulled 8,000 pounds. Together, we might assume that they could pull 17,000 pounds. However, when harnessed together these mighty steeds pulled 30,000 pounds, over ...read more

  • God, Please Save My Son

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 20, 2012
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    "GOD, PLEASE SAVE MY SON." Imagine what went through Moses’ mother’s heart when she turned her just weaned child over to Pharaoh’s daughter. Pharaoh’s daughter was a stranger, a foreigner, living in an anti-Semitic home, whose father was pursuing genocide, trying to wipe out the Hebrew race. ...read more

  • Oil Was Used In The Time Of James

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 11, 2012
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    Oil was used in the time James wrote his epistle. In ancient times various oils had various purposes. It could be that James is referring to medicinal oils such as: Aloes (Burial oil, John 19.39); Cassia and Cinnamon (in God’s holy anointing oil, Exodus 30.22-31); Frankincense Numbers 16.46-50 ...read more

  • Look Up In Your Heart  PRO

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 17, 2012
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     | 1,949 views

    LOOK UP IN YOUR HEART A.W. Tozer reminds us, "You may be still with arthritis so that you can’t even get on your knees to pray, but you can look up in your heart, for prayer isn’t a matter of getting on your knees. Prayer is the elevation of the heart to God and that is all a man needs to praise, ...read more

  • We Humans Tend To Come To Blockages And Stop. ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Dec 28, 2012
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    We humans tend to come to blockages and stop. The other day I was using a vacuum cleaner, the nice new yellow one here at the hall, I turned it on and it worked (tuned it on made all the right noises). But it had no suck. It had become blocked and jammed with hay where the hose met its body, thanks ...read more

  • The Orange Blessing

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 2, 2013
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    THE ORANGE BLESSING In the late 1800’s while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean-liner, the English Baptist pastor and evangelist F.B. Meyer was asked to preach to the first class passengers. At the captain's request he spoke on "Answered Prayer." An agnostic who was present at the service was ...read more

  • God Will Stop Making Worlds...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Mar 29, 2013
     | 1,662 views

    GOD WILL STOP MAKING WORLDS... I remember singing years ago in the choir of Evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman that she would say, "God will stop making worlds to ...read more

  • There's A Man Named George Raindrop, An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There’s a man named George Raindrop, an interesting name. He Wrote a book called "No Common Task." It’s got one interesting event in it that I want to relate it to you. In the book he tells about a nurse and how this nurse taught a man to pray and literally changed the man’s entire life. ...read more

  • It Takes More Than Just One Pastor In The Church ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,418 views

    It takes more than just one pastor in the church to maintain a spiritual hospital where lost souls can be born again, receive a powerful thirst for the Word of God and learn to say “Jesus teach me to pray.” Jesus knew this and that is why in today’s Scripture He exhorts us to pray for laborers for ...read more

  • The Pastor Of New Spring Community Church In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Pastor of New Spring Community Church in Anderson, South Carolina wrote about a burden that was upon his heart in regard to the unBiblical way churches function today. He wrote, “If you operated an airplane like most churches operate today, you would have a pilot and his crew in the cockpit, ...read more

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