PRAYER HEALS The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.…
Sermon Illustrations
Some church members are so introverted they can't even lead a silent prayer.
WET PANTS COMFORT Come with me to a third grade classroom... There is a nine- year-old kid sitting at his desk, and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet, and the…
WHERE IS THE WORLD? It is not the ship in the water, but the water in the ship that sinks it. So it is not Christian in the world but the world in the Christian…
ENEMY PRAYERS Two members of a congregation have been feuding for years. On Yom Kippur Eve, just before the synagogue service, the rabbi brings the two men together in his office. "You must make peace,"…
STOP PRAYING The Hasidic Jews tell the wonderful story of Morris Meltzer who went to his rabbi and said: "Rabbi, my wife is going to have a baby. It's our first child and my Lily…
THE LORD'S PRAYER - PARAPHRASED By Thomas L. Peacock Father of all! who dwell'st above! Thy praises we proclaim: To thee be endless fear and love; All-hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come: thy will…
CALLING FOR DADDY My two-year-old was having trouble falling asleep. For weeks my wife wrestled with the problem of my daughter's crying, etc. at bedtime. After several weeks I thought I should step in with…
THE FIRST OFFICIAL ACT A seminary president told this story: When candidates are ordained into the ministry, they have one thing to do in the service. At the conclusion of the worship, the candidate stands,…
THANKS FOR NOTHING Bart Simpson - praying at a meal: "Since we paid for all this ourselves, thanks for nothing." From Moody Pastors' Conference Guideline Book, 1994, pg. 2
COMPLETE FORGIVENESS In teaching my boys, ages four and three, the Lord's Prayer, I was startled to hear my oldest boy say "As we forgive those who pass gas against us."
WAITING IN THE MUD In the movie "The African Queen," Kathryn Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart play two people who sailed a small boiler- powered vessel down river in the heart of Africa. After braving the…
OBJECT LESSON ON PRAYER Recently, I distributed bags of M&Ms to each person in the congregation to illustrate my message on 1 John 3:21-22 "...we have confidence before God and receive from Him anything we…
WORK-PRAY-LEAVE- ACCEPT You work hard; you pray hard; you leave it in God's hands and you accept God's will. By Elizabeth Dole in an interview by Barbara Walters on ABC's December 6, 1996 show 20/20
MOBILIZE THE CHURCH The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution in history to world evangelism." Andrew Murray
PRAYER BEFORE EVANGELISM The man who did more for biblical evangelism internationally than anyone in our generation was the late Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Dr. Lloyd-Jones saw himself primarily as an evangelist. Those who knew him…
WANTING GOD'S FILLING The problem is not to ask God to fill us, but to want God sufficiently to permit Him to do so. From Born After Midnight
PREACHER'S WASTED PRAYERS The preacher's little girl noticed that her father would always bow his head for a moment just before his sermon. She finally asked her father, "Why do you always bow your head…
THE BEGINNING OF PRAYER The beginning of prayer is silence .... God speaking to us in the silence of the heart. And then we start talking to God from the fullness of the heart. And…
PLANET PLUTO DISCOVERED How long since you considered it? Give thanks to an amateur astronomer, a farm boy from Kansas named Clyde Tombaugh, if you ever think about that distant wanderer at all. In 1929…
