Sermons on Praying Scriptures:

I'm So Glad He Prayed For Me

Contributed by Mary Erickson on May 13, 2024

A sermon for the 7th Sunday of Easter, Year B

May 12, 2024 Rev. Mary Erickson Hope Lutheran Church John 17:6-19 I’m So Glad He Prayed for Me Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. Every Sunday morning our bulletin contains a section with the names of people we are asked to pray ...read more

Scripture: John 17:6-19

Denomination: Lutheran

Psalm 137 - Praying...crying...singing...dreaming Lesson 8 Series

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Jan 11, 2024

Everyone can dream. Peter preached “Your young men shall see visions; your old men shall dream dreams” (Acts 2:17).

A. LIFE’S GREATEST EMOTIONS “My people sat by the rivers of Babylon and wept when they remembered Zion. They refused to sing joyfully, hanging their harps on willow trees. Their captors demanded that they sing; those who imprisoned them wanted entertainment, asking, ‘Sing us a song of Zion.’ My ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 137:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

Two Ways To Pray, One Effective, The Other Not So Much

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 21, 2025

Our Gospel from St. Luke is the only place in the NT where we can find this parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, or tax-collector. Both go up to the Temple to pray.

Thirtieth Sunday Integral 2025 The deuterocanonical book of Sirach, a late work in Hebrew that survived only in Gk, is kind of a long reflection on the entire OT. It was used by the Church to help new barbarian members understand the moral law and the road to virtuous living so much that it was ...read more

Scripture: Luke 18:9-14, 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 2 Timothy 4:16-18, John 3:16, Psalm 34:2-3, Psalm 34:17-18, Psalm 34:19  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Catholic

Faith In The Ruins: How To Pray When God Seems Silent

Contributed by Paul Dayao on Sep 5, 2025

This psalm is a raw and powerful lament from a time of national disaster, teaching us a three-step process for praying through devastation: honestly state your complaint, deliberately remember God's past victories, and boldly call on Him to act.

Introduction: Faith in the Ruins Many of us have seen the painful images that follow a typhoon or a fire: a community, a home, a life's work reduced to rubble. There is a unique kind of shock and grief that comes from seeing a place of sanctuary and safety utterly destroyed. The first and most ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Our First Response Series

Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Oct 24, 2003

What do we do when we have a problem? The Scripture is clear, and yet it is our our natural first response. The Bible tells us that our first response should be to pray. Why?

In the film, The Perfect Storm, a true story about an ocean going fishing boat that went off the coast of Massachusetts, way out into a storm. They didn’t go out into a storm but a storm developed in the ocean there, the North Atlantic. And they were trying to get back through the storm. And if ...read more

Scripture: James 5:13-18

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Keep The Faith

Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Oct 16, 2008

In our text, we are told how we can keep the faith and be more active in the living the faith. 1- Remember scripture 2- Pray much 3- Wait patiently 4- Demonstrate mercy

INTRO.- ILL.- Adoniram Judson sweated out Burma’s heat for 18 years without a furlough, six years without a convert. Enduring torture and imprisonment, he admitted that he never saw a ship sail without wanting to jump on board and go home. When his wife’s health broke and he put her on a homebound ...read more

Scripture: Jude 1:17-23

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Doom Or Deliverance

Contributed by Chris Swanson on Dec 6, 2022

In this passage of Scripture, God is placing judgment on a sinful world. How long will today's Christians just sit idle on the seat of do nothing before they band together and pray for repentance and deliverance?

In this passage of Scripture, God is placing judgment on a sinful world. How long will today's Christians just sit idle on the seat of do nothing before they band together and pray for repentance and deliverance? Assyria had been a powerful nation. They were proud of themselves at how they ...read more

Scripture: Nahum 1:1-11

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Prayer Of Antioch

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 26, 2002

The prayer of Antioch got God’s attention in a big way, but we’re not told what they prayed. What can this unique prayer teach us?

OPEN: A 5-yr-old said grace at family dinner one night. "Dear God, thank you for these pancakes." When he finished his prayer, his parents looked curiously at him and asked him why he thanked God for pancakes when they were having chicken. He smiled and said, "I thought I’d see if He was ...read more

Scripture: Acts 13:1-3

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Out Of This World

Contributed by Judith Hand on Jan 14, 2015

Jesus prays for his disciples as He is about to leave this world

“Out of This World” Gospel passage: John 17:6-19 Jesus came to the world from out of this world to teach people not of this world to go into all the world to preach the truth that he gave his life to save us out of this world. The passage of scripture from John 17 today takes ...read more

Scripture: John 17:6-19

Denomination: Methodist

Prayer As An Investment

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Aug 31, 2018

Come let us rebuild the altar of a holy God. Often prayer can seem like an obligation and a chore. Prayers do not have to be long, one Preacher prayed 63 words and had a victory.

PRAYER AS AN INVESTMENT? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com AS A YOUNG MAN I OFTEN MISQUOTED SOME BIBLE VERSES. IN IGNORANCE I SAID: THE GOOD OL’ BOYS CAME TO JESUS AND ASKED JESUS: LORD WILL YOU TEACH US HOW TO PRAY? This is not at all what the boys ask the teacher to do? THEY ...read more

Scripture: Luke 11:1, John 16:24, 1 Kings 18:30-36, James 5:16-18, 1 Thessalonians 5:17  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Why The Lord's Prayer Works Series

Contributed by Allan Quak on Apr 30, 2018

The closing section of the Lord's Prayer ... for yours is the kingdom etc ... is not from the NT. Yet, closing the prayer this way gives us a pattern to get us through life and death

Message Why Prayer Works A sermon on 1 Chronicles 29:11 The Lord’s Prayer is used by Christians all around the world. You may or may not know that the Lord’s Prayer is found in the Bible. You also may or may not know that there are two versions of the Lord’s Prayer written in the Bible. Matthew ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13

Denomination: Baptist

God Answered Our Prayers

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Mar 31, 2013

I. EXORDIUM: Do you enjoy answered prayers from GOD? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show how to pray in the New Testament age of Grace. IV. TEXT: Ezra 8:23 (New Living Translation, Second Edition) So we fasted

I. EXORDIUM: Do you enjoy answered prayers from GOD? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show how to pray in the New Testament age of Grace. IV. TEXT: Ezra 8:23 (New Living Translation, Second Edition) So we fasted and earnestly prayed that our God would take care of us, ...read more

Scripture: Ezra 8:23

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Lord's Prayer: "our Father In Heaven" Series

Contributed by Barnabas Park on Jan 12, 2021

Jesus taught the right pattern of pray so that His people may pray properly pray, unlike the pagans.

The Lord's Prayer: "Our Father" (1) Matthew 6:7-9 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 "This, then, is how you ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:7-9, John 1:12, John 4:23

Denomination: Baptist

It's All About Jesus (Part 5) Series

Contributed by Scott Bayles on Dec 14, 2022

The book of Colossians is all about Jesus! In this five-part series, we'll explore Paul's letter to the Colossian church and come to know Christ better.

It’s all about Jesus: Colossians 5 Scott Bayles, pastor Blooming Grove Christian Church: 11/20/2016 For centuries—millennia even—the prevailing scientific theory was that we earthlings enjoyed center stage. On a clear summer night, a father could place his arm around his son, point to the heavens ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 4:1-18

Denomination: Christian Church

#49 What Is Caesar’s And What Is God’s Series

Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Aug 10, 2021

In Mark 12:13-17 Jesus asked for a coin and with that coin illustrated the roles of government and God in our lives.

#49 What is Caesar’s and What is God’s Series Mark Chuck Sligh August 8, 2021 NOTE: A PowerPoint presentation is available for this sermon by request at chuckcsligh@gmail.com. Please mention the title of the sermon and the Bible text to help me find the sermon in my archives. TEXT: Mark 12:13-17 ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:13-17

Denomination: Baptist