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  • Jeremiah Parker avatar

    Get Prayed Up

    Contributed by Jeremiah Parker on Mar 6, 2008
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     | 5,139 views

    Christ’s admonition to his disciples continues to warn his modern disciples.

    Get Prayed Up! Intro: We are in a battle. Expect hardships, the necessity of discipline, self-denial and determination. ****Am I a soldier of the Cross?**** Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Mat 26:41) I. Willing ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Growing In Faith To Pray Series

    Contributed by Jim Erwin on Dec 15, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 8,565 views

    How to overcome the common struggles to pray.

    Growing in Faith to Pray Making the Impossible a Reality – Part 1 Deuteronomy 7:6-14 ILLUSTRATION. PRAYERS FOR RAIN There had been a severe drought, and the members of a rural congregation were deeply concerned that their crops would be ruined. One Sunday, therefore, the minister said to his ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Praying At A Prize Fight

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 20, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,817 views

    The stakes have never been higher!

    Prayer is a wrestling match! Colossians 4:12-13 12 Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured. 13 I vouch for him that he is working hard for you ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Praying For Your City

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Apr 30, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,714 views

    In this prayer we learn how to intercede for our town in a way that brings to bear all the power of God to revive, restore and rescue our cities for the Lord Jesus Christ. All great work begins with prayer that invokes God’s favor, enabling and reconcilia

    How to Pray for Your City (2 Chron 7:14) When we earnestly pray for our community God blesses us in ways we had never imagined. 2 Chron 7:14 is the New Testament equivalent of Paul’s prayer for the church in Col. 1:9-11. In this prayer we learn how to intercede for our town in a way that brings ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    On Guard, Alert And Praying

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Dec 2, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,089 views

    Facing difficult times by being prepared and praying for the return of Christ.

    Luke 21: 25 – 36 – On Guard, Alert and Praying Intro: It was a dark, cold, rainy evening in the fall of 1916. A family was gathered in the old log house that had served as the family homestead for many decades. A young couple with four small children was on their way to that same house in a ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Robert Cox avatar

    Pray Without Ceasing

    Contributed by Robert Cox on Dec 11, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,324 views

    We must pray in every circumstance

    "Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit." 1TH 5:17-19. As we see sin abounding in the nation and world, we have all the more reason to exclaim, "Pray without ceasing," because it is only by God’s mercy ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Doug Henry avatar

    When The Church Prays Series

    Contributed by Doug Henry on Dec 30, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 7,107 views

    A look at what really happens when believers get down on their knees and pray.

    When The Church Prays Acts 12:1-19 A Sunday School teacher was struggling to open a combination lock that was placed on the supply closet in the church. She had been told the combination, but she couldn’t quite remember it. Exasperated, she went to the pastor’s study to ask for help. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Will You Pray For Me?

    Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Jan 3, 2007
    based on 84 ratings
     | 13,285 views

    New year message to encourage the people of God to hold up the hands of the man of God as he lifts high the Word of God. Link included to formatted text, audio, and PowerPoint Presentation.

    Will You Pray for Me? Exodus 17:9-13 [general outline only…please see sermon audio for many illustrations and other content that make this message tick] http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/WillYouPrayForMe.html Moses is the man of God. He delivered God’s people from Egypt, led them thru the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jason Cole avatar

    Taking Time To Pray

    Contributed by Jason Cole on Mar 12, 2007
    based on 56 ratings
     | 40,756 views

    Our lives are so busy that often times we neglect what is most important like our times of communication with God.

    A great help to gain more incite into this sermon would be Bill Hybels’ Too Busy Not to Pray Take The Time to Pray Introduction: Some years ago a young man looking for work approached the foreman of a logging crew and asked him for a job. “It depends,” replied the foreman. “Let’s see you take this ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Praying The Powerful Prayer

    Contributed by Aaron Kilbourn on Jul 1, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,401 views

    There are many things that people pray for, but are we praying for things that really matter? Are willing to let God work through us as we pray?

    John 14:12 – 14 reads, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Stephen Smarowsky avatar

    Pray For Your Wife Series

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Jul 3, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,661 views

    These are simple prayers that you can pray for your wife. There are 31, so you can choose one to pray for each day of the month.

    Pray For Your Wife: Ephesians 5:25-26 Introduction: While doing a mid-day devotion in the book of Ephesians, I came across a passage that struck my heart. Paul says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her; that He might sanctify her, having ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Power Of A Praying Dad

    Contributed by Sam Tollison on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
     | 16,658 views

    There is power in a praying dad.

    The Power of a Praying Dad Dad Quotes: • Mark Twain said - When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. • Bill Cosby said - Fatherhood is ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Bob Joyce avatar

    The Power Of Helpless Praying

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Aug 30, 2007
    based on 20 ratings
     | 26,083 views

    You cannot know that God answers helpless prayers until you are in a helpless and hopeless situation. Only then will you come to know God as the God who answers helpless prayers.

    Tonight we’re talking about the power of helpless praying and what happens when we understand what God can do through our prayers. The Secret of Your Power Is Your Weakness What is the secret of power to you? If you’re Popeye, I guess the secret of power is a can of spinach. If you’re ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dr. Ronnie Grizzle avatar

    Don't Pray

    Contributed by Dr. Ronnie Grizzle on Sep 14, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,781 views

    There are commands throughout the Bible to pray continually. There are times however, that we don’t need to pray, because we already know it is God’s will for us to do.

    TIMES WHEN WE NEED NOT PRAY EXODUS 14:1-16 April 30, 2003 Parkersburg Baptist Church PAUL TELLS US TO PRAY ABOUT ALL--"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." (Phil 4:6 KJV) PAUL TELLS US TO PRAY ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney avatar

    It's Time To Pray

    Contributed by Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney on Oct 2, 2007
    based on 54 ratings
     | 39,623 views

    It is not the time for complaining, or criticizing, or becoming weary or depressed. It is time to Pray.

    It is such a tragedy that the greatest power there is on earth is so often overlooked. We suffer so much at the hands of the enemy that could so easily be avoided if we just took time to pray. It is not that the enemy is so strong, that many of Gods people are discouraged and defeated, but because ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal