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  • Otis McMillan avatar

    What Happens When The Church Prays! Prayer Invites Divine Intervention Series

    Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on May 26, 2023
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     | 3,976 views

    One of the most amazing privileges of believers is access to God through prayer. We all face trials and tribulations but praying will help us overcome. Why? Because a praying saint can lay down in trouble and wake up to a miracle. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

    Subject - Effective Fervent Prayer Invites Divine Intervention Scripture - Acts 12:5-11 “So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. 6 The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    God Wants Us To Pray Like The Apostle Paul - Part 1 Series

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Apr 16, 2024
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    Here's how to do it: 1. Reach out to God with reverence (vs. 14). 2. Trust God as the loving Father of His family (vs. 14-15). 3. Pray for more spiritual strength (vs. 16).

    God Wants Us to Pray Like the Apostle Paul - Part 1 Ephesians 3:14-21 Sermon by Rick Crandall Series: The Book of Ephesians (Prepared April 16, 2024) BACKGROUND: *Anyone who studies God's Word will find that it contains many prayers. The Dake Annotated Reference Bible lists 222 different ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    God Wants Us To Pray Like The Apostle Paul - Part 2 Series

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Apr 19, 2024
     | 1,339 views

    Here's how to do it: 1. Pray for God to feel at home in our hearts (vs. 17, 19). 2. Pray for us to know the Lord's infinite love (vs. 17-19). 3. Feed your faith on God’s ability (vs. 20-21). 4. Give all the glory to God (vs. 21).

    God Wants Us to Pray Like the Apostle Paul - Part 2 Ephesians 3:14-21 Sermon by Rick Crandall Series: The Book of Ephesians (Prepared April 19, 2024) REVIEW: *Today we will continue our study of Paul's wonderful prayer in Ephesians 3:14-21, and when it comes to prayer, this is some of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Every Day We Pray Toward The Time Of Our Own Ascension Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 28, 2025
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    We pray with Mary as the disciples did in the upper room, and do so with souls quieted from everyday concerns, as we await Christ’s summons.

    Solemnity of the Ascension 2025 Today we are gifted by God with readings centering on promises and partings. We affirm it every weekend: “He ascended into heaven” and ”sits on the right hand of God the Father Almighty.” The Gospels are not entirely clear, but the tradition of the Church for two ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Go! And Pray With Boldness: The Prayer Of Jabez - 1 Chronicles 4:10 Series

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Feb 25, 2025
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     | 837 views

    The prayer of Jabez is a cry for divine intervention, a prayer of bold faith, trust, and surrender to God’s will.

    Go! And Pray with Boldness: The Prayer of Jabez - Chronicles 4:10 Introduction: Today we turn to a short but powerful prayer found in 1 Chronicles 4:10 (NLT): "He was the one who prayed to the God of Israel, ‘Oh, that you would bless me and expand my territory! Please be with me in all ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    More Than You Can Imagine Series

    Contributed by Scott Maze on Jun 17, 2021
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    You’ll pray for spiritual strength for their times of weakness. You’ll pray spiritual eyes for their times of carelessness. You’ll pray spiritual love for their times of selfishness. And you’ll pray spiritual depth for their times of shallowness.

    Tomorrow is Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember those who have died in service of our nation. Many of you know of someone who died during their service in the military. For some, this was your very children. Today, we express a small token of the rightful appreciation due to these men and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Balancing Career And Family With Faith Series

    Contributed by Greg Hanson on Apr 13, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 11,874 views

    Our career and our families are two potential idols in our lives. But faith helps keep them in proper perspective and enables you to find a balance.

    Last week we started our series on Canadian Idols. We explained that idols are anything in our lives that take the place of God. God alone deserves and belongs in the place of priority in our lives, and when anything or anyone pushes Him aside, that becomes an idol for us. Historically, people ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Get Together Series

    Contributed by Paul Decker on Sep 3, 2002
    based on 224 ratings
     | 22,724 views

    God’s people pray together.

    GET TOGETHER Daniel 2:17-18 S: Praying with people Th: Live a Prayer Life (A Passion for His Presence) Pr: GOD’S PEOPLE PRAY TOGETHER. ?: Why? KW: Reasons TS: Using Daniel 2 as our basis, we will find three reasons why God’s people are to pray together. The _____ reason we should pray together ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Truth About Tradition PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 28, 2025
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     | 37 views

    The sermon calls us to abandon empty rituals and idols, turning instead to wholehearted worship of the living God who alone gives true life and meaning.

    Welcome, friend. Pull up a chair in your heart for a few quiet minutes. Imagine the sound of pages turning, the scent of a well-worn Bible, the gentle hush that settles when God’s people lean in to listen. Some weeks feel hurried, don’t they? Calendars packed, habits humming, and before we know it, ...read more

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    Do You Hate Evil?

    Contributed by Elmer Towns on Nov 18, 2025
     | 83 views

    Pray for the happiness of them who curse you.

    A. INTRODUCTION 1. If you can fall in love with someone, can you fall into hate? How is love and hate similar in character, but different in what they do to you and for you? 2. Hate can be good or evil. Good: “You who love the Lord, hate evil” (Ps. 97:10). “I hate the gatherings of those who do ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Recreating God In Our Own Image Series

    Contributed by W Pittendreigh on Feb 22, 2001
    based on 84 ratings
     | 6,632 views

    We build idols all of the time -- not out of wood, but out of our thoughts. We want to re-create God in our own image.

    Ten Commandments Series Second Commandment -- January 23, 2000 "Re-creating God in Our Own Image" By the Rev. Dr. Maynard Pittendreigh Sunrise Presbyterian Church Miami Florida Exod 20:1-17 1 And God spoke all these words: 2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Idolatry: Dancing With Myself

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,242 views

    Also 1cor 10:14-22. How Paul’s discussion of not eating meat sacrificed to idols is very relevant for us today

    Intro Story – The Chauffeur A very well respected Nobel prize-winning physicist was asked to travel the country and lecture on some of his current theories. His sponsors provided a limousine and a chauffeur. Night after night, city after city the physicist gave the exact same lecture. After all the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    What Is Our Ambition?

    Contributed by Charles Mallory on Apr 25, 2005
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     | 5,185 views

    No one wants to fail. But if our ambition to succeed becomes motivated by the fear of failure, ambition can become an idol in our lives and in our church.

    IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT NOBODY WANTS TO DELIBERATELY FAIL AT ANYTHING. THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT "FAILING" IS THE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE BASICS OF FAILURE ITSELF. THE GREATEST NEWS ABOUT FAILURE IS THAT FAILURE IN AND OF ITSELF IS NEVER FINAL. YOU CAN LEARN GREAT LESSONS FROM FAILURE IF YOU ARE ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

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    The Fall Of Corrupt Leadership Series

    Contributed by Rev. Samuel Arimoro on Jul 15, 2025
     | 203 views

    1 Kings 16 is a powerful record of decline—a succession of leaders who ignored God, embraced idols, and ultimately led their people into destruction.

    THE FALL OF CORRUPT LEADERSHIP By Rev. Samuel Arimoro Main Text: 1 Kings 16:1-34 Supporting Texts: Proverbs 14:34; Psalm 75:6-7; Hosea 4:6; 1 Timothy 5:24-25; Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 INTRODUCTION: 1 Kings 16 chronicles a dark and turbulent season in the leadership of Israel. One by one, kings rose ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Death Grip

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Sep 14, 2023
     | 1,018 views

    We can’t let go of our idols - our possessions, our pride, our plans - without God's help.

    In May 2003, mountain climber Aron Ralston used a pocketknife to amputate his right arm. He had been pinned down by a boulder weighing nearly a thousand pounds in a canyon near Moab, Utah, for five days, and running out of water realized it was his only chance to survive. After cutting off his arm ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed