How to Argue with God …
Summer Psalms
Sunday Evening Message
Don't let your sinfulness hinder your prayers. Run into the arms of God and fill his ear with arguments that aim for His honor.
Don't let your sinfulness hinder your prayers. Run into the arms of God and fill his ear with arguments that aim for His honor.
Beware of a church that runs on the momentum of tradition rather than the power of prayer.
If we are unloving and unrepentant then we should not think that God is likely to answer our prayers.
Let your prayers embrace all kinds of people: high and low, white and black, democrats and republicans, Soviet premiers and Iranian Ayatollahs. Enlarge your heart until it embraces the world.
Our prayers should always aim not merely at our own satisfaction, but also at the benefit of others.
Before God enables his people to bring in a harvest, he pours out a Spirit of prayer upon them. The surest sign that God is about to send power upon us is a great movement of prayer in our midst.
Jesus makes it clear that eternal life hangs on whether we are ready when he comes.
Paul does not pray for ineffectual influences, but for effectual influences. And that is how we should pray too.
Prayer is that wonderful transaction where the wealth of God's glory is magnified and the wants of our soul are satisfied.
Prayer is not a mere devotional interlude in the real business of living; it is the pathway of faith and obedience. There is no other.
May the Lord forbid that we would lose heart and fail in the very thing needful: mighty prevailing prayer.
For people who desire the salvation of sinners, the magnifying of God's glory, and the vindication of Jesus' name, this is the way to pray.
Daniel was immersed in secular life but he still lived by prayer—daring, defiant, disciplined prayer.
God will accomplish his purpose for the church, even if he choses to use a remnant to do it.
Take the supernatural seriously and realize that we are in warfare.
The great need of the hour is to know God more deeply and personally and more biblically.
God designed prayer to give his disciples the joy of bearing fruit while God himself gets the glory.
There are ways live that hinder prayers and there is a way to live that helps prayer.
No believing prayer is in vain. Ever.
God calls us from time to time, and some of us as a kind of vocation, to strive—to struggle, and wrestle, and persist, and prevail in prayer.
Don't neglect the amazing influence you have in the world through prayer.
What are God's purposes when he says "No" to his praying people?
God's lavish invitations to ask him for good things, with the promise that he will give them, is unimaginably wonderful.
The most significant reason to pray is to ask God to glorify himself.
God can put his people through the fires of suffering to awaken their appetite for prayer.
Both disciplined and spontaneous prayer should flow from our confidence that God is already 100% on our side.
The Lord's Prayer teaches us to go to God for every need, especially our need to hallow him above all things.