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  • Blake Dodd avatar

    Praying In The Spirit

    Contributed by Blake Dodd on Dec 17, 2013
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     | 6,769 views

    A sermon on the importance of praying in the Spirit of God.

    Praying in the Spirit Introduction: • One of the greatest ways to understand God’s Word and to understand the deep things of Scripture is to study Systematic Theology. • Systematic Theology looks at the Bible topically instead of looking at individual books. We derive ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Pray For Me

    Contributed by Kevin Higgins on Dec 30, 2007
    based on 15 ratings
     | 17,227 views

    An appeal for the church to pray for their pastor.

    Ephesians 6:18-20 Pray For Me Woodlawn Baptist Church December 30, 2007 Introduction “It takes prayer in the pulpit and prayer in the pew to make preaching arresting, life-giving, and soul-saving.” Those words were written by E.M. Bounds some 120 years ago in a chapter titled, The Preacher’s Cry: ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Pray Big Series

    Contributed by Mark Nichols on Jan 28, 2008
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     | 15,334 views

    Has God changed or have our prayers gotten smaller?

    TITLE: PRAY BIG! (By Mark Nichols) TEXT: (1st Kings 17; Joshua 10; Genesis 25:20) TOPIC: Praying for God to do Big things! OCCASION: Burnside Christian Church, January 29th, 2008 PROP.: Because our God is BIG, our prayers should be BIG! INTRODUCTION: All month long, PRAYER has been our ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Pray This Way

    Contributed by Charles Scott on Feb 2, 2008
     | 2,253 views

    Jesus taught us not only the words to say in prayer, but the manner in which to approach God so that prayer becomes effectual in changing not only our lives but enables Christ through the church to change the world around us.

    Matthew 6__5-18 THE WAY TO PRAY In my youth, I was very active in a Church that practiced only extempore prayer. On rare occasion someone might bring a written prayer to a Bible study, but other than the Lord’s Prayer, there was no prayer routinely used in worship, and no one who was a prayer ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Gregory Lilly avatar

    Why Pray?

    Contributed by Gregory Lilly on Jan 10, 2013
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     | 7,581 views

    So many people do not use one of the greatest resource that the believer has, and that is prayer. Do you think of prayer as something to use only in an emergency? Do you believe you have a better hold on your life than God could? Do you want any thing out

    James 4:1-3 Intro: Prayer, which allows the believer to communicate with God each day and at any time, is one of the most neglected resources we have in God. The average believer oftentimes considers prayer the last resort, only used when life gets out of hand. In this ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Praying For A Plan Series

    Contributed by Bobby Stults on Jan 13, 2013
     | 6,249 views

    Nehemiah knew and understood that the enormous task set before him was impossible on his own, but with God he had faith it could be done... So Nehemiah prayed toward a plan

    Sermon Brief Date Written: January 10, 2013 Date Preached: January 13, 2013 Where Preached: OPBC (AM) Sermon Details: Series Title: Building with God Sermon Title: Praying Toward A Plan Sermon Text: Nehemiah 2:1-8 [ESV] Introduction: Last week I asked the question, “Have ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Tim White avatar

    Pray, Or Sleep? Series

    Contributed by Tim White on Mar 19, 2014
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     | 9,806 views

    Prayer should be a priority as it is a necessity.

    • Ill.The Preacher and the Bus Driver in heaven. • Jesus was on His way to a terrible death of suffering. • On the way, He stopped to pray. • Today, we will focus on this event and how it relates to our lives. Mar 14:32-42 And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Pray And Praise Series

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Mar 21, 2014
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     | 9,187 views

    With the ups and downs of life there is something we can do to make any situation better, to respond to any situation. Talk to God!

    Pray and Praise: James 5:13-20 As I get older I notice that life, is really full of swings and roundabouts, those times that people describe as ups and downs or seasons. You could be having a great day one of those ones when people are generally cherry and greet one another with a smile and enjoy ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Pray Not Prey! Series

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Mar 21, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,270 views

    In a world where much is taken in the removal of innocence we can make a difference in prayer. Follow Jesus pattern, prayer and involvement.

    Luke 11: 1-13, Pray don’t prey! Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray. The prayer he teaches them is the Prayer that we now know as ‘The Lord’s Prayer’. He then sums the whole thing about praying up with a bit of a story. Jesus said something like this. “Suppose ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Praying For The Persecuted Series

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Mar 31, 2014
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    Prayer was needed for the Thessalonians who were persecuted but still growing in their Christian faith.

    Before we read our passage today, let us note again some background. As we can see in a map, Thessalonica is a port in Greece. Let’s open our Bibles to the Book of Acts, Chapter 17:1-15…. And so we note that the Church in Thessalonica was initiated by Missionaries Paul, Silas, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Praying For Rain Series

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 19, 2016
    based on 5 ratings
     | 38,391 views

    Sometimes it is harder to get the rain going that it is to have it stopped. Elijah had to labour in his prayer for rain.

    ELIJAH—A MAN OF LIKE PASSIONS 10 Praying for Rain TEXT: 1 Kings 18:41-46 1 Kings 18:41-46 KJV And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. [42] So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The Praying Church

    Contributed by Darrin Fish on May 7, 2014
     | 5,862 views

    We need to Keep praying in such a way, That God will continue to show His miracles and wonders through us.

    The Praying Church • Last week we saw that God gave the apostles the power to perform miracles. • And one of the examples that Peter and John performed • Was the healing of a crippled beggar. • And because of this healing / This miracle • It drew the attention of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Tim Smith avatar

    Why Pray Series

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 12, 2014
     | 6,831 views

    Prayer is meant to be at the heart of a relationship to Jesus. Jesus assumes you are already praying. He doesn’t say IF you pray but WHEN you pray any relationship is built and strengthened through communication and with God, that’s prayer

    Why Pray? Matthew 6:1-13 Prayer is meant to be at the heart of a relationship to Jesus. In our Scripture today, Jesus assumes you are already praying. He doesn’t say IF you pray but WHEN you pray. Last week, we learned that Jesus is directing the Sermon on the Mount to hypocrites. The Greek ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    Work And Pray Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 23, 2016
     | 5,088 views

    To be effective at evangelization, we must be firmly rooted in prayer and adoration.

    Thursday in Fifth Week of Easter 2016 Joy of the Gospel Early in St. Paul’s ministry in Anatolia, his success in planting new congregations of Christians inspired others to do missionary work outside the more traditional areas of Judea and the adjoining provinces. But something else was ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Pray A Prayer

    Contributed by Richard Papafio on May 15, 2018
     | 2,936 views

    When young age challenges, do it with boldness and courage but don't end there. Get back into your prayer closet and pray a prayer

    May the peace of the Lord be with you. Topic: PRAY A PRAYER Acts 4:23-31 King James Version (KJV) 23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. 24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic