Praying and intercession; communion with God in prayer; the practice, difficulty, and encouragement of prayer.
- Retire Like a Plentiful Guest from a Thankful Table John Newton
The calendar tells me that if I live until next Monday, I shall enter my seventy-sixth year. I believe you will pray for me on that day. My eyes, ears, and legs likewise …
- Thankful Guest from a Plentiful Table John Newton
Pray likewise for me, that no gross imprudence or misconduct may stain the latter part of my life — but that I may be enabled to exemplify in myself what I have labored …
- What do you think about when you are in bed? John Owen
What do you think about when you are in bed, either settling down to sleep or waking up? There are those who ‘work out evil on their beds’! (Mic. 2:1). And there are …
- Not My Deserving Johann Heermann
Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay thee, I do adore thee, and will ever pray thee, think on thy pity and thy love unswerving, not my deserving.
- Poor and Empty in Ourselves John Newton
His own glory is most displayed, and our safety best secured, by keeping us quite poor and empty in ourselves, and supplying us from one minute to another, according to …
- Humility to Ask for Prayer Ed Welch
If we desire to be perceived as competent and in control, we will not ask for prayer. If we know that humans, by nature, are spiritually needy, and God’s plan is that we …
- Habitual Resignation John Newton
Let us strive and pray for a habitual resignation to his will—for he does all things well.
It is never ill with us—but when our evil hearts doubt or forget this plainest …
- Christ and the Day of Atonement Gavin Ortlund
For Stephen Charnock, the high priest’s activity on the Day of Atonement in Lev 16 prefigured Christ’s priestly ministry in at least three ways.
First, his sacrificing …
- Intercession of Christ John Murray
But the fact that from the seat of exalted and undimmed glory and in the exercise of high priestly prerogative he interposes petition to the Father on behalf of every one …
- Heart-Eating Anxieties John Newton
We have liberty to express our desires to the Lord; but the more simply we can commit the how, the when, and the where, to his wisdom and will, the more we shall be freed …
- What Thou Wilt, When Thou Wilt, How Thou Wilt John Newton
Help me with your prayers, that I may trust him too, and be at length enabled to say without reserve,
What thou wilt, when thou wilt, how thou wilt.
I had rather speak …
- Sinner, Pray Hard Martin Luther
Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.
- Spurgeon on Prayer Meetings Charles Spurgeon
Brethren, we shall never see much change for the better in our churches till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.
- Pray for Sinners Thomas Watson
If you pity an ox or an ass going astray, will you not pity a soul going astray from God, who has lost his way and his wits, and is upon the precipice of damnation.
Nay, …
- Living in Dependence on Him J. Ligon Duncan
God will continually put His people into situations where they must live in dependence on Him expressed through prayer.
- Children Praying Our Father? Sinclair Ferguson
For, despite protests to the contrary, it is difficult to see how evangelicals can, with theological consistency, teach their children to say ‘Our Father’ and to sing …
- Pray for the Church John Owen
He who does not continue to pray for the Lord’s glory to remain on the church is not worthy of its privileges. Prayer, then, for the good, prosperity, flourishing peace, …
- Paul’s Fervency in Prayer Donald A. Carson
[Paul’s] unaffected fervency in prayer is not whipped-up emotionalism but the overflow of his love for his brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. That means that if we are …
- When Our Faith is Weak Herman Bavinck
When our faith is weak, when we lapse into sin, believers always have the right and the freedom to go with confidence to the throne of grace and plead on the basis of the …
- Beeke on Prayer Meetings Joel Beeke
If your minister were to announce that at your forthcoming prayer meeting, the apostle Paul would appear, the entire congregation would attend. That, if course, will not …
- God's Ambassadors Joel Beeke
Though you should deeply appreciate your minister’s efforts to faithfully bring the Word of God, pray that you see ’no man, save Jesus only’ (Matt 17:8). Ministers are …
- Serving Your Country John Newton
People do their country more service by pleading for it in prayer than by finding fault with things they have no power to alter.
- True Wisdom John Newton
I would ask you to pray for us, if I were sure you prayed for yourself; but whether you will thank me for it or not I must tell you that I pray for you often. Oh! how …
- Prayer for Unity Herman Bavinck
Christ’s prayer for unity was not born of unfamiliarity with the history of God’s people nor from his inability to govern it. His prayer is the guarantee that unity …
- Not to Us Charles Spurgeon
Yet it is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-‘Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be glory.’ It is a lesson which …
- Calvin on Prayer John Calvin
We must, therefore, maintain both of these truths, that He freely anticipates our wishes, and yet that we obtain by prayer what we ask.
- Calvin's Prayer John Calvin
By your Spirit destroy the wickedness of our heart, and restore us to a sound mind, that we may ever cleave to you with a true and sincere heart, that being fortified by …
- God's Bidding Augustine of Hippo
God bids us to do what we cannot, that we may know what we ought to seek from Him.