Sermons on Praying In Gods Will:

Bring Jesus To Our Youth

Contributed by Brien Sims on Jun 23, 2008

Praying for the young in the Church.

Life has its many peculiarities, especially as your age changes and life takes its many leaps. Moving from high school to the real world, having a baby, menopause, your children leaving home, moving where you live, and many more life changing events occur. Amy and I are finally getting into a ...read more

Scripture: John 17:1-12

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

What Happens When You Get What You Ask Or Pray For? PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 30, 2025

True security is found in trusting God as our King, not in pursuing what others have or seeking control through earthly solutions.

Have you ever stood at the fence line of your life, looked at what others have, and felt that tug? If I just had their certainty. Their security. Their leader. Their plan. The human heart has a way of reaching for what is visible, tangible, and immediate. We want a king we can see. A system we can ...read more

Topics: Divine Will, Human Desire

P.u.s.h.--Pray Until Something Happens! Series

Contributed by David Dykes on Mar 31, 2003

In this parable, we learn the value of positive, persistent prayer and the need for prayer in our lives.

P.U.S.H. – Pray Until Something Happens! Luke 18:1-8 By Dr. David O. Dykes INTRODUCTION A young man went into a drugstore to buy 3 boxes of chocolate: small, medium, and large. When the pharmacist asked him about the three boxes, he said, “Well, I’m going over to a new girlfriend’s house for ...read more

Scripture: Luke 18:1-8, Luke 18:1-18, Romans 12:9-13

Denomination: Baptist

Prayer Guide For Our Children

Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Jul 2, 2007

We are often told to pray, but very seldom are parents equiped to pray for their children in the power of God’s Word. This prayer guide is disigned to do just that.

Prayer Guide For Our Children and Grand Children “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (Philippians 4:6) Praise: “Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:6

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Put Your Trust In A Good God

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Mar 15, 2005

Despite hardship and having to run for his life, David kept his faith in a good God and prayed for deliverance. His experience can be ours too, today.

For a believer, no ’dead end’ is really a dead end. It is so only from man’s point of view. If we believe in God, then we must believe that He can still make a way. Matt 19:26 - Jesus: "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Isa 43:19 - See, I am doing a new thing! ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8

Denomination: Independent/Bible

God Never Forgets Your Prayers Series

Contributed by Dean Courtier on Mar 5, 2014

When we pray there are three possible answers from the Lord, yes, no and wait. We all hate to wait but we need to trust in God's perfect timing.

Let’s begin with this question: What is the major enemy of hope in your life? What is the one thing that, more than any other, threatens to weaken your hope? Could it be: discouragement, suffering; weariness, exhaustion. Perhaps the main enemy of hope in your life is simply the passage ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 13:12

Denomination: Pentecostal

God Always Hears The Prayers Of The Righteous Series

Contributed by Richard Papafio on Oct 30, 2017

Whenever you pray as a Christian, no matter what happens be rest assured in your heart that God had heard you because you are a righteous man and not a sinner

May the peace of the Lord be with you. Topic: GOD ALWAYS HEARS THE PRAYERS OF THE RIGHTEOUS John 9:31King James Version (KJV) 31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. God Almighty always hears the petitions of the ...read more

Denomination: Charismatic

When You Ask From God Series

Contributed by Manny Salva Cruz on Sep 11, 2016

We had to be careful when we ask from God through praying making sure that it is in accordance to His will and He has promised to grant our prayers.

We are continuing our study in the Book of 1 Samuel. We are now in chapter 8 - we are studying one chapter at a time. Every chapter has a spiritual application for all of us if we only know how to look for them. Today, we are going to talk about asking God in prayer. Do you know that one of the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 8:1-21

Denomination: Nazarene

Focusing On Our Relationship With God Series

Contributed by Alis Cerrahyan on Jun 23, 2019

We don't always receive the answer we are looking for every time we pray. Can we continue to revere God even after He has turned us down?

Prayers are our personal communications with our heavenly Father through his only begotten son Jesus Christ the Saviour. As we fall on our knees at the Cross upon which an amazing exchange has taken place in order to save us from eternal doom; we find that God has already pruned away the spiritual ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:8-9, Isaiah 30:15

Fearlessly Proclaiming God's Word

Contributed by Derek Geldart on Jan 2, 2016

Like Paul we need to pray that we as His ambassadors do not water down the word of God in our lives to appease our culture but instead fearlessly proclaim the truth to all we meet.

FEARLESS PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL MESSAGE (Ephesians 6:18-20) • Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, the one called to proclaim the Gospel message to the Gentile people asked the church of Ephesus for prayer that he might fearlessly proclaim the Gospel message. • In the sermon I am going ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:18-20

Denomination: Baptist

Bitter Complaints: Born To Trouble Series

Contributed by Amiri Hooker on Oct 10, 2021

Job speaks his prayers out loud in our text for this week. He shares his brokenness and mostly his feeling that God is not listening any longer.

MAIN TEXT: In a way, a lot has transpired between last week’s reading and this one. In another way, nothing much has changed. Job is still on the ash heap. Job is still iN A place of bitter complaints. The companions who sat in silence with Job for seven days (2:13) now try and blame Job for his ...read more

Scripture: Job 23:1-9, Job 23:16-17

Denomination: United Methodist

The Power And Importance Of Intercessory Prayer PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Nov 4, 2025

God seeks ordinary people willing to pray and stand in the gap, using their faithfulness to bring hope, healing, and change to a broken world.

Some of the greatest moments in the Bible begin with God looking for a person. Not a celebrity. Not a committee. A person. A shepherd with a sling. A teenage girl with a “yes.” A fisherman with a net. Heaven leans over the balcony and asks, “Who will stand? Who will say yes? Who will carry My heart ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 22:30

Topics: Intercession, God's Agents

Sermon # 25 - When Will God Answer Our Prayers? Series

Contributed by Andrew Dixon on Jul 4, 2023

Why are some of our prayers not answered? What can we learn from the prayer of Jabez? May we learn to pray in a way that honors God so that we can receive answers to our fervent prayers.

We read in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10, “Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, "Because I bore him with pain. Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10, Psalm 139:23-24, Mark 5:25-26, Exodus 5:1-2, Exodus 12:31-32, Joshua 7:13, Psalm 96:9  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Other

Dangerous Prayers: Search Me Oh God

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on May 15, 2016

This sermon is on being willing to pray a dangerous prayer such as search me oh God. It also deals with how we are tempted to keep quiet because of fear of rejection from the society around us.

Some of the material from this sermon comes from the series done by Craig Groeschel in his sermon series, Dangerous Prayers.: The video and audio version of this sermon can be found at newlifeatcalvary.org Dangerous Prayers—Search Me Psalm 139 10-24 1 Corinthians 11:23-31 Have you ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 139:23-24

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

The Prayer Of Faith Brings The Answer!

Contributed by Tony Abram on May 17, 2020

In this outline we share the steps in praying the prayer of faith. We be God give us a formula for everything if we will search the scriptures.

THE PRAYER OF FAITH BRINGS THE ANSWER! Gal 4:1-7 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 4:1-7, James 5:14-16, 2 Corinthians 5:21