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  • Dale Pilgrim avatar

    Prayer-Works Series

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 15, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,419 views

    Why ‘work’ instead of ‘activity’ of prayer or ‘picnic’ of prayer? Why does ‘prayer concert’, or ‘prayer vigil’ sound so gray and bland? The answer is obvious. Prayer is hard work! It is rewarding; it is life-changing; but it is hard.

    We continue today on our topic, “Learning to serve in a Service-less Age”, more specifically looking at “The refurbished Life”. God refurbishes our lives, in part, through “The Habit of Prayer”. I confess my struggle with this topic. It is complex yet simple. So complex that we will not even begin ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

  • Mark Roper avatar

    Effectual Fervent Prayer

    Contributed by Mark Roper on Nov 19, 2007
    based on 16 ratings
     | 39,424 views

    Prayer is both an incredible privilege and an awesome responsibility. It can move the hand of God in situations where there is no other hope.

    Effectual Fervent Prayer James 5:16 KJV Prayer does not equip you for greater works. Prayer is the greater work. ---- Oswald Chambers As mature Christians we are naive to ignore or deny the reality of spiritual conflicts between good and evil and our role in them as believing saints. Our main ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Jim Drake avatar

    Working Man's Prayer Series

    Contributed by Jim Drake on Feb 16, 2007
    based on 15 ratings
     | 5,769 views

    The ability to follow Christ’s commands (to love God and love one another) is only supernaturally bestowed. However, that ability is available to us simply by asking.

    1. The first requirement of a working man’s prayer is the right posture. (3:14-15) 2. The second requirement of a working man’s prayer is the right petition. (3:16-19) 3. The third requirement of a working man’s prayer is the right power. (3:20-21) Our study in the Book of Ephesians has brought us ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jimmy Chapman avatar

    Listen, Jesus Is Praying

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 2, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,590 views

    Be quiet, Jesus is praying

    LISTEN, JESUS IS PRAYING John 17 “Some brethren pray by yard; but true prayer is measured by weight, and not by length,” so spoke Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The greatest prayer ever recorded is found in our text, and it takes about six minutes to reverently read it aloud. There is not much ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Philip Harrelson avatar

    Wrestling In Prayer

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Sep 20, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 14,224 views

    There are times that much wrestling is required in prayer. Epaphras was an excellent example of this.

    Colossians 4:12-13 KJV Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. [13] For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Ed Wood avatar

    Why We Don't Pray

    Contributed by Ed Wood on May 25, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,293 views

    A message on prayer.

    WHY WE DON’T PRAY Isaiah 64:1-7 INTRO: The prophet said to his contemporaries, “No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you” (NIV). That is also an accurate assessment of God’s people in our day. Prayer is the most talked about and least practiced aspect of the Christian life. We talk ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Brian La Croix avatar

    Prayer Of Jabez #1- The Who, What, And Why Series

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 14, 2002
    based on 301 ratings
     | 55,811 views

    Overview of the Prayer of Jabez.

    Note: some of the illustrations in this series are not acknowledged - this is due to the loss of my notes, not out of a desire to deny any sources. Thank you! Prayer of Jabez #1: The Who, What, and Why? 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 (December 30, 2001) Introduction There are many, many prayers in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Maurice McCarthy avatar

    Effectual Fervent Prayer Series

    Contributed by Maurice Mccarthy on Oct 20, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 18,210 views

    Fervency in prayer is like the tension a string puts on a bow, it transfers its energy to the arrow to make it fly straight and true. An effective prayer is one that is successful in producing a desired or intended result.

    Effectual Fervent Prayer PPT 1 Series title We are in our study of the book of James entitled: Getting the right angle on things. Today we are going to talk about, why and when prayer doesn't work, and why and when prayer does work. By getting the right angle on this we can see more prayers ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Bob AuBuchon avatar

    The Measure, Means, And Might Of Our Prayers

    Contributed by Bob Aubuchon on Jun 26, 2001
    based on 44 ratings
     | 2,118 views

    Prayer is one of those tools God has given us to accomplish His work in and through us.

    John 14:12-14 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 "And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 "If you ask anything in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Kenneth R. Jenkins avatar

    Prayer Works

    Contributed by Kenneth R. Jenkins on Jun 29, 2022
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,417 views

    The power of prayer is real and important to every person who believes.

    I am a true believer in prayer and how wonderful it can work no matter how bad or how good things seems to be in our lives. Prayer is the universal way of talking to God one on one. That's why I believe that “PRAYER WORKS”. I Josephine Baker once said, “I believe in prayer, it's the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dave McFadden avatar

    "The Key To Miracles” Series

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Jan 2, 2011
    based on 8 ratings
     | 11,630 views

    Jesus tells us through prayer, His followers would do greater works that He did during His earthly ministry.

    In this passage Jesus tells us that those who have faith in Him will do greater works than He did while on earth. Just what did Jesus mean by “greater works?” How could those of us who believe on Him possibly do greater works than those Jesus performed during His ministry on earth? After all, Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dana Chau avatar

    Prayer: Companions Of Pray-Ers Series

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 28, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 4,353 views

    Lean how prayer works and pray.

    How many people have appliances or software at home you don’t use, because you don’t know how they work? I know some people with VCRs, and they don’t know how to program their VCR to record a certain channel at a later time. Others have software programs on their computer that they never use or ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Luther Sexton avatar

    (Section 1) - What Is Prayer? & (Section 2) Prayer And God's Work Series

    Contributed by Luther Sexton on Mar 22, 2019
     | 2,644 views

    Prayer is the most wonderful act in the spiritual realm as well as a most mysterious affair.

    LET US PRAY (Section 1) by Watchman Nee I. WHAT IS PRAYER? A. Prayer is the most wonderful act in the spiritual realm as well as a most mysterious affair. 1. The power of prayer lies not in how much we pray but in how much our prayers are ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Dennis Selfridge avatar

    Will Your Prayer Make A Difference?

    Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on Jul 20, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,481 views

    Praying to change the world

    WILL YOUR PRAYER MAKE A DIFFERENCE? James 5:16 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 17 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 earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Freddy Fritz avatar

    Some Reasons For Unanswered Prayer Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Feb 20, 2007
    based on 15 ratings
     | 10,991 views

    In today’s sermon I want to suggest some reasons why perfectly proper prayers may go unanswered.

    Scripture Some time ago I read a story about a young boy who was praying for a bicycle for Christmas. But his family was very poor, and when Christmas morning came there was no bicycle. A family friend, who was not very sensitive, said to the boy, “Well, I see that God did not answer your prayer ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed