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  • Fernando Cabrera avatar

    How To Pray God's Way

    Contributed by Fernando Cabrera on Oct 27, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,651 views

    How to pray God’s way.

    How to Pray Matthew 6:7, 8; 7:7-8 Prayer is an essential part in our walk with God. One of the reasons why some people don’t enjoy prayer is because they don’t see it as a process that builds their relationship with God. The following is a basic guideline for praying: Be Spontaneous: Try to ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How To Ask God For Help

    Contributed by John Tung on Feb 7, 2002
    based on 64 ratings
     | 14,635 views

    When we need God, don’t be afraid to ask!

    I. Introduction - the Benefits of Reading Psalms One of the benefits of reading the Psalms is that they present us with pictures of what godly people in the past have experienced and how they got through them. And when we read those stories it gives us encouragement to keep on living for God even ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Jesus Comes From God

    Contributed by Anthony Delaney on Aug 11, 2001
    based on 54 ratings
     | 4,173 views

    The healing of the blind man serves to encourage us to share our faith as God’s plan is shown, by God’s power alone, God’s Son is made known.

    John 9: Jesus Comes from God. The tragic thing at the beginning of this story is how the disciples see the same man begging as Jesus does, but their reaction to him is so very different. They look at him and ask “Master, who sinned- this man or his parents, causing him to be born blind like ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    God's People Without A Home

    Contributed by Tammy Garrison on Sep 8, 2001
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,261 views

    There are similarities between the Israelites at the crossing of the Red Sea and those outside our church families.

    In 1997, 20th Century Fox released an animated musical about Anastasia, lost princess of Russia. In the film, we first meet Anastasia leaving an orphanage that has been her home for the last ten years. She has forgotten her identity, but she knows she has one. She longs for a family, but she is ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Sterling Franklin avatar

    God's Power In A Darkened Room

    Contributed by Sterling Franklin on Jan 2, 2002
    based on 45 ratings
     | 3,296 views

    My first message to teenz4theLord online Youth Group, a discussion about the Power of General Prayer in a dark closet or room.

    "God’s Power in a Darkened Room" By Sterling Franklin - October, 2001 Hey, we’re talking about prayer tonight, so let’s open in Prayer... Lord, thank you for tonight, thank you that we can all be here to have a good time of fellowship in You and of learning more about You and Your Glory. Thank ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Waiting On God Takes Faith

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Nov 14, 2003
    based on 16 ratings
     | 5,157 views

    It’s never easy to WAIT...but why should we have to wait on God and what possible good could come from it?

    Faith is explained in the first part of Hebrews 11 as “Being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible…” ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Charles Wilkerson avatar

    Set Your Dial To God... Series

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Nov 14, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,620 views

    to hear God we have to tune into God and this means being where God is at.

    Imagine a dozen radios all on different stations, playing at the same time. What image comes to mind? Mind numbing noise, mass confusion or perhaps the inability to think clearly, well you’d probably be right. Now imaging trying to listen for your favorite song in the mix of noise. Imagine ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Travis Johnson avatar

    Loving God...loving Others

    Contributed by Travis Johnson on Jan 14, 2006
    based on 48 ratings
     | 13,134 views

    A familiar passage with such a profound truth.

    LOVING GOD…LOVING OTHERS Luke 10:25-37 ILL- In April of 1998 in our nation’s capital Military Police Maj. Odie Butler said he was northbound on I395 about 10 minutes before 6 a.m. when he came upon an accident near Alexandria. Amid the debris of a single-truck accident, a person was on the ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Ed Wood avatar

    Where We Meet God

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 7, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,908 views

    Does God still encounter us in this generation? If so, how and where does this occur?

    WHERE WE MEET GOD Colossians 1:15-20 INTRO: The purpose of God for all creation is that it be brought under the lordship of Christ. In Him the fullness of deity dwelled bodily. We were made in the image of God, made for fellowship with him (v. 27). Since we are made for fellowship with our ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Edmund Chan avatar

    God Of The How Much More Series

    Contributed by Edmund Chan on Jan 2, 2006
    based on 119 ratings
     | 48,787 views

    Herein lies the greatest lesson Jesus ever taught about Prayer!

    GOD OF THE HOW MUCH MORE Luke 11:1-13 Illustr. Some years back, during a family dinner, my mum swallowed a fish bone. My younger daughter, who was then three years old, walked over to her grandma and spontaneously prayed, “Lord Jesus, please help grandma’s fishbone…bless it to her body in Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    Why Prayer Moves God Series

    Contributed by Danny Williams on Oct 25, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,140 views

    Understanding the prayer that moves God

    Why Prayer Moves God August 10, 2003 Am - Danny L. Williams Luke 18:1 I want to talk to you this morning from the subject “Why Prayer Moves God”. Let’s Pray, Concept of Prayer: The History Of God’s People is decorated with men and women of prayer. Down through out the bible to Jesus, to ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Adedotun Ojelabi avatar

    Principles Of Receiving From God

    Contributed by Adedotun Ojelabi on Sep 28, 2001
    based on 65 ratings
     | 17,217 views

    Highlighted Seven Major levels of prayer and ten things that can hinder answered prayers.

    PRINCIPLES OF RECEIVING FROM GOD by Adedotun Ojelabi Communication with the Almighty God is a common denominator to all children of God worldwide. Most believers at one point or the other have been faced with questions like “what is the Lord saying concerning this ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Craig West avatar

    Conversations With God, Part 1 Series

    Contributed by Craig West on Dec 10, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,619 views

    4 Things Christians can do to honor God as they pray.

    “Prayer is the process by which God helps us rearrange our priorities.” - Henry & Richard Blackaby, Hearing God’s Voice (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 2002), 114. INTRO: Yogi Berra – “Let’s just let God watch the game, ok?” Biblical Fact: God’s prevailing power is released in the lives of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    God's Gift To Your City!

    Contributed by Jose Gomez Sr. on Nov 15, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 1,690 views

    How to win over your city for Jesus!

    *Jonah 4:11 To be God’s gift to our city we must do away with our notion about the people that God has sent us to. God’s gift to the city is not the Historical part od the city (Ybor City) - It’s not the big buildings or skyscrapers (the attractions like BUSH GARDENS OR SEA WORLD) - It’s not ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Ask God For The Very Best

    Contributed by Timm Meyer on Sep 7, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,232 views

    Pentecost 9(A) - Believers are encouraged to ask God for the very best in humility and confidently.

    ASK GOD FOR THE VERY BEST (Outline) July 29, 2007 - PENTECOST 9 - 1 Kings 3:5-12 * * * * * * * * * INTRO: What do need? The question is not what do you want, but what do you need? For whatever you need God is ready and willing and able to hear, listen, ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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