When a man really prays it is not a question whether God will hear him or not, He must hear him; not because there is any compulsion in the prayer, but there is a sweet and blessed compulsion in the promise. God has promised to hear prayer and He will perform His promise. As he is the most high and true God, He cannot deny himself. Oh! to think of this; that you, a puny creature, may stand here and speak to God, and through God may move all the worlds. – C.H. Spurgeon
Help in the Time of Need
Help in the Time of Need
Are you looking for help in the time of need in your life? Look no where else other than the throne of Grace.
My Wife the Mulberry Tree, Saved After Praying for 19 Years
My Wife the Mulberry Tree, Saved After Praying for 19 Years
Craig preaches on Luke 17:5-6 and how it relates to finally seeing his wife saved after 19 years of praying.
The Spirit is Willing, the Flesh is Weak
The Spirit is Willing, the Flesh is Weak
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Matthew 26:41
Song of Solomon (Prayer as Communion)
Song of Solomon (Prayer as Communion)
Oh the love of God for his bride is just unbelievable. It is incredible. Paul talks about the Son of Solomon and how it is a picture of Christ and His Bride.
How Should I Pray?
How Should I Pray?
In this Ask Pastor Tim the question of "How Should I Pray" is answered. This is very important because many people will have the wrong motives in prayer, or will believe they are praying in the Spirit when it is not the case.
Does Your Prayer Life Look Like Devotion to Prayer?
Does Your Prayer Life Look Like Devotion to Prayer?
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Romans 12:12
Who Shall Ascend the Hill of God
Who Shall Ascend the Hill of God
This is a Bible study where Tim talks about Duncan Campbell and the Hebrides island revivals. Are you hands clean? Is your heart pure? For you to ascend the hill? Psalm 24:3-4 - Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
Anointing
Anointing
I told a story once let me tell you it again. I was going in Dr. Tozer's study one day and there he had a bit of paper he was stroking and he said...
It’s Time to Pray
It’s Time to Pray
It's Time to Pray - Don Johnson Grace Baptist Church Batesville, Arkansas
I learned by experience that much prayer is the only means to success.
Ministers, in order to be burning and shining lights, should walk closely with God, and keep near to Christ; that they may ever be enlightened and enkindled by Him. And they should be much in seeking God, and conversing with Him by prayer, who is the fountain of light and love.
We must deliberately seek to meet with God absolutely alone, and to secure such aloneness with God we are bidden to ‘enter into the closet.’ God absolutely insists on this ‘closet’ communion with Himself. One reason, no doubt, that He demands it is to test our sincerity. There is no test for the soul like solitude. Do you shrink from solitude? Perhaps the cause for your neglect of the ‘closet’ is a guilty conscience? You are afraid to enter into the solitude. You know that however cheerful you appear to be you are not really happy. You surround yourself with company lest, being alone, truth should invade your delusion.
The aim of Satanic power is to cut off communication with God. To accomplish this aim he deludes the soul with a sense of defeat, covers him with a thick cloud of darkness, depresses and oppresses the spirit, which in turn hinders prayer and leads to unbelief—thus destroying all power (instead of seeing Hebrews 11:1).
Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife—much labor expended to little purpose. For the work accomplished by labor in prayer depends on our faith: “According to your faith,” not labor, “be it unto you.”
Come, my soul, thy suit prepare,
Jesus loves to answer prayer;
He Himself has bid thee pray,
Therefore will not say thee nay.
Thou art coming to a King,
Large petitions with thee bring;
For His grace and power are such
None can ever ask too much.
Ask God for anything, but let Him judge as to the manner, measure, and timing of the giving.
Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.
George Muller was conscious of being too busy to pray as he ought. His outward action was too constant for inward reflection, and he saw that there was risk of losing peace and power and that activity even in the most sacred sphere must not be so absorbing as to prevent holy meditation on the Word and fervent supplication. The Lord said first to Elijah, “Go, hide thyself”; then, “Go, show thyself.” He who does not first hide himself in the secret place to be alone with God, is unfit to show himself in the public place to move among men.
You and I, in the last analysis, are what we are when we are alone. I confess that in a sense it is easier for me to preach from a pulpit than it is to sit alone in my study; it is probably easier for more people to enjoy the presence of our Lord in the company of other Christians than when alone. Paul would have us enjoy what he himself was enjoying. He had a love for the Lord that rendered him independent of all that was happening.
When a man is speaking to God, he is at his very acme. It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life. Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.
Some women spend hours preparing physically for church. What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing spiritually for church with prayer and meditation?
If I had spent more time alone with God rather than preaching and planning how I was going to change the world, I would be a very different man.