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  • Davon Huss avatar

    A Call For Prayer

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 15, 2013
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    A sermon from Romans 15:30-33 on prayer (Outline and material adapted from Alan Carr at: http://www.sermonnotebook.org/romans/Rom%2015_30-33.htm)

    HoHum: Whenever I speak about prayer, I want it known that I speak as a fellow-struggler in the trenches. I’ve never found prayer to be easy. Also, many messages and books on prayer lay a guilt trip on the listener or reader for not praying enough. They tell about how Martin Luther was so ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Reconnecting With Prayer Series

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Mar 23, 2014
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     | 5,583 views

    FOUR THINGS I KNOW I SACRIFICE WHEN I'M NOT RECONNECTING WITH GOD IN PRAYER.

    Reconnecting with Prayer Isaiah 40:27-31 9/8/13 Introduction Video: Connecting with GOD through Prayer  What if prayer is more about reconnecting than meetings, lists chains, requests, petitions, intercessions? T.S. The Poet David gives us gives us a look at what we sacrifice when we do ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

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    Importunity In Prayer

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Mar 29, 2014
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     | 8,745 views

    A short appeal to persevere in prayer.

    IMPORTUNITY IN PRAYER. Matthew 15:21-28. Sometimes in the round of life it seems that we are praying by rote - and sometimes not praying at all, but rather ‘saying prayers’. I was impressed with the importunity of the woman of Canaan who approached Jesus in Matthew 15:21-28. Yes folks, faith ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Prayer And Praise Series

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Mar 30, 2014
     | 6,328 views

    Through prayer we speak to God as we do when we praise him. But our songs of praise are also meant to be an encouragement to one another.

    Do you know what a monologue is? A monologue is when one person speaks while everyone else listens. Late night talk shows begin with a monologue. The host cracks jokes while the audience listens. A teacher lecturing on the habits of the South American sloth delivers a monologue while students take ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Persistent Prayer

    Contributed by Rick Boyne on Jul 17, 2012
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    Prayer is our privilege and our duty.

    Persistent Prayer January 7, 2009 Wednesday Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: Prayer is our privilege and our duty. Focus Passage: Luke 18:1-8 Introduction: In his book Why Prayers are Unanswered, John Lavender retells a story about Norman Vincent Peale. When ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Prayer For Prosperity

    Contributed by Christopher Benfield on Mar 10, 2019
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     | 7,820 views

    Knowing the church in Ephesus was surrounded by materialism, Paul sought to encourage them in the spiritual prosperity they had in Christ. What they received in Christ was far greater than anything the world offered.

    A Prayer for Prosperity Ephesians 1: 15-19 Our text today comes from the letter Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus. This letter is one of the “prison epistles,” written while Paul was imprisoned in Rome. The church at Ephesus was dear to the heart of Paul, having spent about three years there in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Prayer 101 Series

    Contributed by Pepe Gonzales on Mar 21, 2019
     | 6,387 views

    Prayer is the fruit of a man or woman who understands their humanity and the sovereignty of an almighty God in other words you are God and I am human You are almighty and I am weak

    PRAYER 101 Luke 18:1-14.....Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Prayer Of Daniel

    Contributed by Bala Samson on May 9, 2013
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     | 4,349 views

    This chapter talks about the magnificent prayer of Daniel to God. Friend, such tear-drenched-passionate-prayer comes out through a sincere-fervent-pursuit of God!

    Understand Your truth…. Daniel 9:13"As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.” This chapter talks about the magnificent prayer of ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The Prayer Of Hezekiah

    Contributed by Gregory Lilly on May 29, 2013
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     | 20,492 views

    Although faced with both opposition and intimidation. Hezekiah prayed and the seemingly impossible happened, Jerusalem was delivered.

    Isaiah 37:20 Introduction: Opposition and intimidation are oftentimes used by Satan to defeat the believer. These same two tools were used by the Assyrian armies as they laid siege to enemy cities and fortresses. Hezekiah was a good king, who ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Hopeless Prayer

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Feb 19, 2019
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    Three keys to prayer in hopeless times

    A. Opening illustration: JD Greear being woken up in the middle of the night for an emergency, “Prayer is our most formidable weapon, but the one in which we are the least skilled, the most averse to its use.” E. M. Bounds B. Background to passage: Jesus is still ministering around Galilee, and in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Paradigms Of Prayer

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Mar 2, 2019
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     | 3,284 views

    We pray for the glory of God. We consider that it is He who we have sinned against. We pray in solidarity with those for whom we pray. We don't try to restrict God.

    PARADIGMS OF PRAYER. 1. Solidarity with those for whom we pray (Exodus 32:30-32) Moses presents us with an example of true, thoroughgoing, intercessory prayer. This is Moses’ prayer after the infamous ‘Golden Calf’ incident, when the people had committed idolatry at the foot of Mount Sinai ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Wrestling In Prayer

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Apr 13, 2018
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     | 8,548 views

    Proposition: Effective prayer is characterized by earnestness, ferverency and energy.

    WRESTLING IN PRAYER Text: Col. 2:1-5 Introduction 1. Illustration: During the dark days of the American Revolution, when the Continental Army had experienced several setbacks, a farmer who lived near the battlefield approached Washington's camp unheard. Suddenly his ears caught an earnest voice ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Prayers Of Desperation

    Contributed by Anthony Zibolski on Nov 7, 2017
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     | 17,914 views

    when we are desperate for God; God begins to do amazing things in our lives.

    Prayers of desperation 1 Samuel 1:1-21 Introduction- I have titled the sermon today Prayer desperation. Illustration- Jim Symbala (Pastor at Brooklyn Tabernacle) was in a prayer meeting when he noticed a women praying aside of him. He noticed her because in her prayer she became a little ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    Nehemiah's Prayers Series

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Nov 13, 2017
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     | 23,915 views

    Nehemiah's contemporary, Ezra, had taken some of the exiles back to their homeland and rebuilt the temple. But the walls had been broken down and the gates had been burned. This is where Nehemiah comes in. Let's see how prayer factors into this endeavor.

    NEHEMIAH’S PRAYERS In 586 b.c. Jerusalem was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. He captured the Jews and exiled them to Babylon. Nehemiah’s time is 141 years later in 445 b.c., when the Persians ruled the land. Nehemiah's contemporary, Ezra, had taken some of the exiles back to their homeland and ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Life Of Prayer.

    Contributed by Trevor Chuma on May 31, 2019
     | 3,269 views

    Prayer is one thing Satan will fight you on, for the rest of your life.

    Prayer is one thing Satan will fight you on, for the rest of your life. He doesn’t like it when we pray, he will do everything he tactically can to stop folks from praying. He knows very well that there is no greater power in the entire universe that is greater than the power of God, and that power ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic