Prayer | Short Shorts
ANSWERED PRAYER Whoever riseth from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. George Meredith
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Prayer
Burden | Children | Dependence | Guidance | Leadership | Love | Prayer
A TEACHER’S PRAYER Lord, give me the wisdom to discover in each child his spark of divinity, the gift which You have given him, and through love and guidance nurture
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Atonement | Communion | Fellowship With God | Peace | Position | Prayer | Reconciliation | Salvation
ENTRY There was a soldier in the Union Army, a youngest son who had lost his older brother and his father in the war. He went to Washington, D. C.
Greed | Humor | Money | Perspective | Prayer
PUTTING IT ALL IN PERSPECTIVE A man asked God how long a million years was to Him. God replied, “It’s just like a single second of your time, my child.”
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Children | Humor | Prayer
WHEN GOD ANSWERS PRAYER During the minister’s prayer one Sunday, there was a loud whistle from one of the back pews. Gary’s mother was horrified. She pinched him into silence,
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Fear | Humor | Ministry | Power | Prayer
POWERFUL POSITIONS FOR PRAYER It seems these three ministers were talking about prayer in general and the appropriate and effective positions for prayer. As they were talking, a telephone repairman
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Commitment | Prayer | Preaching
SPIRITUAL ELOQUENCE IN COMMUNICATION Eloquence isn’t necessarily flowery language so much as heartfelt expression. Consider this prayer of a country preacher in Red Rock, Mississippi: “Oh Lord, give Thy servant
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Angels | Burden | Miracles | Prayer | Promise | Service
ANGELS ON ASSIGNMENT This happened in 1956 during the Mau Mau uprisings in East Africa and the story is told by missionary Morris Plotts. A band of roving Mau Maus
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Children | Evangelism | Love | Prayer | Salvation
A FATHER WITH A MOTHER’S LOVE Perhaps a strange title, but I knew such a father whose love was comparable to that of a loving mother. I was gifted in
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Evangelism | Faith | Obedience | Prayer | Salvation | Youth
GOD’S HAND Two teenage sisters moved to a new community. Not having any friends there, they eagerly accepted an invitation to a Christian Youth gathering. After attending several times, the
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Apathy | Desire | Greed | Mercy | Prayer
FORGIVENESS This prayer was found in a church bombed in World War II. It would help if we could let it sink into our spirit: The hatred which divides nation
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Fellowship With God | Guidance | Miracles | Prayer | Trust | Trustworthy
LISTEN TO YOUR FATHER’S VOICE I feel constrained to share something with you that was a tremendous blessing and inspiration to me. Lisa Groves is one of our Overseas Crusades
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Bitterness | Forgiveness | Hate | Love | Prayer | Success | Violence
FORGIVENESS Jesus expects us to love our enemies. And we say, “Dear God, how can we?” How can you love persons who are against you, who are determined to demean
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Adversity | Prayer | Short Shorts
ASSUME THE POSITION FOR TROUBLES If all your troubles are deep-seated and of long-standing, try kneeling. Bits & Pieces
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Anger | Dependence | Fellowship With God | Prayer
PRAYER People approach prayer in many different ways. In Life With Father, Clarence Day describes his father’s approach: “Father expected a good deal of God. He didn’t actually accuse God
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Authority | Humor | Prayer
PRAYER IN CONGRESS When Edward Everett Hale was Chaplain of the Senate, someone asked him, “Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?” He replied, “No, I look at the
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Example | Faith | Freedom | Prayer
WASHINGTON — SPIRITUAL IMPACT Parson Weems relates the story of a Quaker who abandoned his pacifism after hearing Washington pray. In the winter of 1777, with the American Army encamped
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Bible Study | Burden | Freedom | Prayer | Providence
LINCOLN’S BIBLE Abraham Lincoln’s well- thumbed Bible in the Lincoln Museum in Washington, among other things, would abundantly prove that he was a Christian. Listen to him, as on his
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Burden | Freedom | Health | Poetry | Prayer | Strength
WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE The sun went down o’er Valley Forge In the cheerless wintry air; Day after day the sun went down, And no man seemed to care; For
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Freedom | Goodness | Prayer | Purity | Success
AMERICA’S GREATNESS I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. I sought for the greatness and
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