OFF TO A GOOD START Dear God, so far today, I have done all right. I have not gossiped, and I have not lost my temper. I have not been grumpy, nasty, or selfish, and…
Sermon Illustrations
If you worry, why pray? If you pray, why worry? From Bruce Rowlison, Gilroy, California
WHERE PRAYER FOCUSES "I happen to believe that where prayer focuses, power falls." Harold G. Henricks in Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper
TALK TO THE SHEPHERD If you can't sleep, don't count sheep. Talk to the Shepherd. From Bruce Rowlison, Gilroy, California - This is an excerpt from the poem "When I Can't Sleep" in the October…
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,…
KEEP KNOCKING A Christian lady once dreamed that she died and went to heaven. As an angel was showing her around, she saw a stack of boxes in the corner of a room--and they had…
PRAYER DEFINED Pray often: for prayer is a shield for the soul, a sacrifice to God and a scourge to Satan. By Paul Bunyon
LAWYER THANKS GOD It was a banquet of celebrities in New York City. The toastmaster discovered there was no clergyman present to bless the food. So he asked a lawyer to say grace. The lawyer…
FIRST THINGS FIRST A priest and a rabbi were playing golf together for the first time. The rabbi noticed that the priest was an excellent putter. He also saw that before every putt, the priest…
PUT THE WALNUT IN FIRST I once read a story about a small jar filled with tiny grains of rice and one large walnut in their midst. If you emptied the jar and put the…
THE REACH OF PRAYER Nothing lies outside the reach of prayer, except that which lies outside the will of God.
QUOTES FROM IRENE WEBSTER- SMITH Everything by prayer -- Irene Webster- Smith Faith has the key of heaven, and prayer has the ear of God. -- Irene Webster- Smith Prayer is so simple; it is…
DIETER'S PRAYER Lord, grant me the strength that I may not fall/into the clutches of cholesterol./At polyunsaturates, I'll never mutter,/for the road to hell is paved with butter./And cake is cursed and cream is awful,/And…
SMALL CARES & PRAYERS If a care is too small to be made into a prayer, it's too small to be made into a burden.
NEED FOR AWAKENING ...The greatest sin of the Christian is prayerlessness... The problem of prayerlessness is not a matter of discipline. It is a matter of lost love relationship with our Lord... For you to…
NOT SO FAITHFUL PRAYER I am reminded of a cartoon that I saw a couple of weeks back. In the first frame is a man, let us call him Joe. Joe is standing by himself…
BEGS IN AN ASKIT Prayer is putting all your begs in one askit.From Norm and Becky Wretlind, Neighborly Evangelism Ministries, Littleton, Colorado
PRAY IT THROUGH The testimony of Rees Howells, the renowned intercessor and leader of a powerful corporate prayer gathering, introduced me to the concept of gained ground in prayer. Once we pray through to a…
PRAY FOR PREACHING The preacher's little daughter noticed that her father always bowed his head for a minute before starting his sermon. One day she asked him why. "Well," he replied, "I'm asking God to…
PUTTING OFF FOR TOMORROW The unconverted man says, "Conversion is easy tomorrow, but hard today. I'll put it off." Even so, prayer that now is difficult appears easy in the future. Alas, you will find…
