Contributed by Rick Crandall on Mar 14, 2010
PRAYING FOR THE LOST
Lee Thomas is a great teacher on praying for the lost. Here’s part of a testimony from his book:
When we begin to pray for someone’s salvation, God seems to draw a circle around that individual and then gets in the circle with him. That is what happened to Ricky Gresham when
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 25, 2010
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LEE THOMAS ON PRAYING FOR THE LOST
Prayer is really the starting place for all of our evangelistic efforts. We need to be like Paul in Romans 10:1, when he said: "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved."
*Lee Thomas is a great teacher on praying for the
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 30, 2008
LOST IDENTITY
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Have you ever lost your driver’s license?
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Isn’t it a traumatic event? I have lost my driver’s license several times over the years and each time it made my life difficult. For all practical purposes I lost my identity. I couldn’t write a check – stores will not take a check
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Be not afraid to pray to pray is right Pray if thou canst with hope, but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay;
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 10, 2008
Praying in Revival
2 Chronicles 7:14 says: “…if my people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
All true spiritual awakenings that have had a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 13, 2009
The praying hands
Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table, the father, who was a goldsmith by profession, had to work almost eighteen hours a day and he took on any other paying work
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Baptist
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 21, 2009
Pray “in the name of Jesus.” It is not a catchy phrase we attach to our prayers, that somehow validates what we have to say. It is recognition that what I have prayed about and prayed for is with the same spirit and heart that Jesus himself would have prayed; that my focus is not self-centered or
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
A wife invited some people to dinner.
At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said,
"Would you like to say the blessing?"
"I wouldn’t know what to say," the girl replied.
"Just say what you hear Mommy say," the wife answered.
The daughter bowed her head and said,
"Lord,
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Contributed by Charles Jones on Mar 27, 2012
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"PRAYING HE PRAYED"
The Characteristic of the prayer of Elijah was his FERVENCY. He prayed fervently.
He used that particular Hebrew idiom - "praying he prayed." In other words when he prayed he got down to business. Remember that the prayer of a righteous man is of great force when energized -
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2008
IDENTIFY WITH THE LOST
In her famous book and film, "The Hiding Place" Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family, her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people. Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the
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LOST AND FOUND
Our tummies rumbled --it was time for lunch. "What do ya say we head-in," I asked, as the girls strapped in. We careened down the mountain and caught the chairlift. My baby and I rode on one chair, behind her two, older sisters in another. The view ahead would make a great shot,
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Lutheran
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 18, 2004
An Englishman once remarked:
You need not tell me there is no hell, for I already feel my soul slipping into its fires! Wretches, cease your idle talk about there being hope for me! I know I am lost
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 11, 2004
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LOOKING FOR THE LOST
The boss of a big company needed to call one of his employees about an urgent problem with one of the main computers. He dialed the employee’s home telephone number and was greeted with a child’s whispered, "Hello?"
Feeling put out at the inconvenience of having to talk to a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 11, 2004
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LOST IN AMERICA
According to the North American Mission Board Research Division, there are 192 million lost people in America today and that number is growing by almost 2 million
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
Quote: 4819 When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I’m lost
In wonder,
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Contributed by Shine Thomas on Nov 8, 2018
D.L. Moody told the story of his conversion this way: “When I was in Boston I used to attend a Sunday school class, and one day I recollect my teacher came around behind the counter of the shop I was at work in, and put his hand upon my shoulder, and talked to me about Christ and my soul. I had not
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Aug 8, 2019
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When the sheep strayed, the shepherd left the 99 and searched for the lost one.
I was that lost sheep, I got saved at an early age, and loved the lord with all my heart. Everything was great in my life, I married the girl of my dreams, then my world fell apart. In 1968, I got a letter from
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
THE LOST LADLE
Helen was a wonderful Christian woman, She was a single mother raising her only son Tom as best she could to love God. But Helen was very worried when Tom told her he was moving to the Big city.
A year went by and all seemed well, when Tom called his mother one day and told her his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 25, 2009
HEART FOR THE LOST
Throughout history, believers have had this heart for the lost. John Knox, for example, reflected Paul’s sorrow for his people when he said, "O God! Give me Scotland or I die!"
David Brainerd, the great missionary to the North American Indians in the early years of the 18th
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