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  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Use The Lord's Prayer As A Model

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 257 ratings
     | 16,271 views

    Prayer is the prelude to peace, the prologue to power, the preface to purpose, and the pathway to perfection!

    Jesus prayed earnestly, purposefully, and with certainty. He knew that God answers prayer. "The Lord’s prayer" was given during Christ’s Sermon on the Mount to provide an example for how we should approach the throne of grace. Prayer is the prelude to peace, the prologue to power, the preface to ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Ed Vasicek avatar

    Prayer And Ministry: Like A Horse And Carriage Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 17, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,630 views

    What Can We Learn From the Priorities of the Savior’s Lifestyle?

    Prayer and Ministry: Like A Horse and Carriage (Mark 1:35-45) All believers are to have a ministry. Matt. 5:16ff, "Let your light so shine…" Question: What Can We Learn From the Priorities of the Savior’s Lifestyle? I. Our Own Spiritual Health Is the Basis for Our Ministry (35) 1. At ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Ewen Huffman avatar

    Aeneas And Dorcas- Principles Of Prayer For Healing Series

    Contributed by Ewen Huffman on Jul 5, 2002
    based on 49 ratings
     | 14,838 views

    What (balanced) principles of prayer for healing can we get from this passage.

    Aeneas and Dorcas- Principles of prayer for healing Acts 9:32-42 WBC 7 July 2002 What can we learn from this passage about healing? - what does God have to say to US … ME - bearing in mind I’m not Peter! Well, I think we can glean some Principles of prayer for healing The first is: 1) We ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jerry Falwell avatar

    Great Prayer Meetings In The Book Of Acts

    Contributed by Jerry Falwell on Jan 11, 2002
    based on 134 ratings
     | 31,023 views

    Great prayer meetings in the Book of Acts.

    GREAT PRAYER MEETINGS IN THE BOOK OF ACTS I. INTRODUCTION - This was a great prayer meeting because of the following reasons: A. The results - Many things happened when they prayed. 1. An earthquake took place. 2. Everyone was filled with the Holy Spirit. 3. A multitude of people got ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Raymond Perkins avatar

    The Prayer Of Jabez: Ask For His Protection Series

    Contributed by Raymond Perkins on Aug 24, 2001
    based on 128 ratings
     | 8,362 views

    This is the fifth and final lesson in my series based in I Chronicles 4:10.

    ASK FOR PROTECTION I Chronicles 4:10d INTRODUCTION: Paul Harvey told about a 3-year-old boy who went to the grocery store with his mother. Before they entered the grocery store she said to him, "Now you’re not going to get any chocolate chip cookies, so don’t even ask." She put him up in the cart ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Donny Tatimu avatar

    Seth And Enosh: Prayer And Calling On God Series

    Contributed by Donny Tatimu on Sep 23, 2002
    based on 26 ratings
     | 9,856 views

    In every generation, God teach someone how he/she can come closer to God. And for the first time in man’s history these men called upon the name of God.

    I. Intro: We will find there is so few information about these two names in the bible; but however I personally found them as an important person in the bible. We even can call them as "man of prayer". From the beginning, God made man and woman to fulfilled His purpose, which is, "For from ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

  • Brad Lewis avatar

    Part 7 Of 8 - Prayer And Church Series

    Contributed by Brad Lewis on Oct 25, 2002
    based on 24 ratings
     | 3,561 views

    Discover what the believers pray life says about the believers beliefs.

    Church 101: A Beginners Guide to Church Part 7 – Prayer and Church James 5:13-16 13 Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Bob AuBuchon avatar

    The Measure, Means, And Might Of Our Prayers

    Contributed by Bob Aubuchon on Jun 27, 2001
    based on 44 ratings
     | 3,220 views

    Prayer is one of those tools God has given us to accomplish His work in and through us.

    John 14:12-14 "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. 13 "And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 "If you ask anything in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Steve Salmon avatar

    A Prayer You Can Always Pray

    Contributed by Steve Salmon on Aug 11, 2001
    based on 34 ratings
     | 3,062 views

    There are times when we do not know what to pray. Paul gives us an example of what to pray at those or any time.

    A Prayer You can Always Pray Ephesians 1:15-17 S. I. C. C. August 5, 2001 (Morning Service) I would have liked to have seen Paul’s prayer list. It must have been a douse. I am sure he prayed for all the churches he started and for the ones he had heard about and acquired an affinity ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Raymond Perkins avatar

    The Prayer Of Jabez: Ask For His Presence Series

    Contributed by Raymond Perkins on Aug 14, 2001
    based on 58 ratings
     | 5,401 views

    This is the fourth installment in an ongoing series based on I Chronicles 4:9,10.

    ASK FOR HIS PRESENCE I Chronicles 4:10c INTRODUCTION: Three ministers were discussing the importance of prayer and the appropriate positions for prayer. As they were talking there was a telephone repairman working on the phone system in the back of the room. One minister said that he felt the key ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney avatar

    The Believers Weapon O F Prayer Series

    Contributed by Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney on Jul 30, 2002
    based on 324 ratings
     | 56,039 views

    The most powerful force in the earth is prayer, It is as omnipotent as God Because nothing is impossible to God Therefore nothing is beyond the reach of prayer.

    Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; There are all kinds of prayer, there is a prayer to fit each particular situation or condition. There is public prayer- Private prayer ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Tony Searles avatar

    P.u.s.h. Prayer

    Contributed by Tony Searles on Apr 22, 2002
    based on 107 ratings
     | 14,070 views

    A message used to encourage the body to continually pray...and not to become doscouraged with unanswered or delayed answered prayers.

    Stand & Read - 1 Thes. 5:17 “…pray without ceasing…” “P.U.S.H. Prayer!” I am thoroughly convinced that we are to be a praying people… We are called to be people who are serious about pray and busy about praying continually in our lives… Smith Wigglesworth once said, “I don’t want to build ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

  • Glenn Newton avatar

    My House Will Be Called A House Of Prayer

    Contributed by Glenn Newton on Mar 29, 2003
    based on 139 ratings
     | 20,909 views

    This sermon is a call to Prayer. As a church we get busy doing many things, but we must not leave our source of effectiveness.

    MK 11:15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Greg Nance avatar

    Positives Of Persistence And Perils Of Pride In Prayer

    Contributed by Greg Nance on May 18, 2003
    based on 124 ratings
     | 7,399 views

    How we pray and what we pray have a big connection. Jesus’ gives us great insight into what God wants in a good prayer.

    Praying Outside the Box Do you remember your first prayers? As a child, learning to pray, I never remember having a class or hearing a list of instructions about prayer, do you? I do remember being told to say, “In Jesus Name, Amen.” But most of what I learned about praying as a child came from ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • David Salisbury avatar

    Fix Your Prayers (Part 2) Series

    Contributed by David Salisbury on May 29, 2003
    based on 43 ratings
     | 4,039 views

    Lesson 15 in a series on the Sermon on the Mount. I revisited the topic of prayer as we came to Jesus’s words about asking, seeking, and knocking.

    Fix Your Prayers (part 2) Matthew 7:7-11 It is quite possible that no aspect of the Christian life is as mysterious as prayer. What should I pray for and how should I pray? How come it seems like nothing happens when I pray? Do you ever think you’re just talking to the wall when you pray? Why ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ