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 P.U.S.H.--Pray Until Something Happens! by David Dykes Luke 18:1-8 A young man went into a drugstore to buy 3 boxes of chocolate: small, medium, and large. When the pharmacist asked him about the three boxes, he said, “Well, I'm going over to a new girlfriend's house for supper. Then we're going out. MORE...   In For the Long Haul by John Barr Luke 18:1-8 In June l955, Winston Churchill, who was then near the end of his life, was asked to give a commencement address at a British University. At this time he was physically infirm; he had to be helped to the podium. Then he held on to the MORE...  Persistent Prayer by Ed Wood Luke 18:1-8 Church growth expert, George Barna found that prayer was the foundational ministry of rapidly growing churches in America. He wrote: “The call to prayer [in these churches] was the battle cry of the congregation: it rallied the troops. These people MORE...  Persistent Prayer by John Hamby Luke 18:1-8 Cable television tycoon Ted Turner has often been quoted as being critical of fundamentalist Christianity. Turner made some very revealing remarks at a banquet in Orlando, Fla., in 1990, where he was given an award by the American Humanist MORE...  3 Incentives to Keep Praying by Larry Sarver Luke 18:1-8 There's a magazine cartoon that shows a little fellow kneeling beside his bed for his bedtime prayer. He says with some measure of disgust, "Dear God, Uncle Jim still doesn't have a job; Sis still doesn't have a date for the social; Grandma is MORE...
HOW COME HE DOESN'T DO IT?There was once a pastor who had a little five-year-old daughter. Now the little girl noticed that every time her dad stood behind the pulpit, and was getting ready to preach, he would bow his head for moment before he began to preach. The little girl noticed that he did this every time. So one day after the service the little girl went to her dad and asked him, “Why do you bow your head right before you preach your sermon?” “Well Honey” the preacher answered, “I'm asking the Lord to help me preach a good sermon.” The little girl looked up at her father and asked, “Then how come he doesn't do it?” Contributed by: Dan Comrie BREATHING AND PRAYINGMartin Luther said, "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” Contributed by: Randy Myers WHAT PRAYER CAN DOThe great preacher and pastor of Chicago's famous Moody Church, A.C. Dixon declared, "When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do, and so on. Nor am I disposed to undervalue any of these things in their proper place, but when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do." Contributed by: Guy Caley TRANSFORMED BY PRAYERThe video "Transformations" made in 1999 shows stunning Revivals that are taking place mostly in third world countries (Africa, South America, etc) - Revivals that have literally TRANSFORMED ENTIRE TOWNS AND CITIES for Jesus. It showed how in one Columbian city (notorious as a drug citadel), the church leaders who were hopelessly divided only became unified after a well-known pastor was murdered. Suddenly, through this unity God was able to move. They decided to hold a huge all-night prayer gathering in the city stadium and 50,000 Christians came. Within nine months of this united prayer the drug lords who had dominated that city were dethroned and everything had changed. Since then the Christian community has experienced massive growth and has become a 'beacon set on a hill' in that place. They continue to hold massive unified prayer gatherings in the city stadium. In another dark South American town the desperation point again came when a pastor had a gun jammed against his head. This sparked intensive unified PRAYER and the situation turned around until now about 90% of the people in that town are Christians! God has even blessed the ground so that the soil produces huge crops - carrots as thick as your arm! The whole place is covered with God's abundance, as His glory is able to be displayed through His unified, praying people. SOURCE: Andrew Strom in “Blueprint for Revival.” Contributed by: Joel Smith HAVE YOU PRAYED ABOUT IT?I heard Howard Hendricks tell about a time early in his teaching ministry when he worked up a humdinger of a series on prayer. At the end of his study he knew more about prayer than he had ever imagined he could know. He had worked it into a grand presentation and couldn't wait to preach it. As he walked to the podium to give the first lesson, it dawned on him that he hadn't prayed about the lesson or the series. SOURCE: David Fisher, The 21st Century Pastor: A Vision Based on the Ministry of Paul (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Pub. House, 1996), 223. Contributed by: Joel Smith Forward this e-mail to your minister friends so they can subscribe to the FREE SermonCentral.com newsletter, too. They just need to click on this link to sign up: SermonCentral.com SermonCentral |
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