Posts Tagged ‘Prayer’
Help for Our Failings in Corporate Prayer
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this Thy so great a people. And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked for this thing (I Kings 3:9-12). After prayer, have you ever asked yourself whether…
Read MoreJoining in Prayer
Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3 It is God’s will for His children in Christ Jesus to gather for corporate prayer. It is one of the very important ways of establishing and maintaining unity in the local Body of Christ.…
Read MoreNever Be Shamed from Prayer
Matt Recker A term called “prayer shaming” arose after the terrorist shooting in San Bernardino in 2015. Its users intend it as a rebuke to those who offer prayers after a massacre but will not take any political steps, such as new gun laws, to stop future attacks. One paper blared the headline: “God Isn’t…
Read MoreIn Jesus’ Name
George Stiekes Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask IN MY NAME, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in…
Read MoreAddressing the Master
Don Johnson FBFI Pulpit In preparation for our Annual Fellowship this week, I thought I would share a message I preached on April 2 about prayer. In particular, it emphasizes our great God, our Master to whom we pray. If we are conscious of the One Whom we are addressing, I believe our prayers will…
Read MoreQuestions about Imprecatory Prayers
Warren Vanhetloo Dear Dr. Vanhetloo, I am currently reading the Book of Psalms in my personal devotions and can’t help but be surprised by the vindictiveness of many of its parts. For example, in Ps. 104:35a: “Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more.” This is a…
Read MorePrayer: Our Power
Jerry Sivnksty James 5:16 says, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” The Lord shows His power through the prayers of His people. James 5:17 says, “Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the…
Read MoreIn Jesus’ Name, Amen
Randy Fox FrontLine Pastor’s Insert • January/February 2008 As a young child I was taught to close my prayers with the words “in Jesus’ name, Amen.” Most Christians wouldn’t think of ending a prayer, public or private, without affixing some reference to Jesus’ name. Why do we do that? Why, when we hear someone pray…
Read MoreEvan Roberts and the Welsh Revival
George Stiekes O Lord, revive thy work Habakkuk 3:2 Last week, we noted that real revival is preceded with frequent, serious, often intense prayer. Revival is not normally something the church leadership places on the calendar. However, as God’s people begin to get a burden to see God show Himself strong in our midst, they…
Read MoreLord, Help Me
Matt Recker Mark 9:14-29 We do well to never minimize the reality of the devil, his demons, and their work in the world at any time. Today the troubled son in our passage might be considered epileptic, Jesus diagnosed this man’s manic manners as a demonic disorder. We can be sure that Satan still seizes…
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