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Five Ways to Grow in Prayer

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  • Nicholas Davis

Do you pray faithfully? Many Christians struggle to maintain a consistent prayer life. The article discusses five things that can help you grow and be more effective in prayer.

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How to Pray When You're Struggling to Understand the Bible

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  • Jen Wilkin

Prayer plays a supremely essential part of our study of the Bible. It is difficult to hear what God says in Scripture if you do not pray. The article provides a helpful guide for productive Bible study, especiall in cases where you are struggling to understand the Bible.

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When God Feels Far Away in Your Suffering

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  • Mark Vroegop

Is it acceptable to complain in prayer when God feels far away in your suffering? This article discusses the matter of lament in prayer, explaining that it is appropriate, yet needs to be done in the right way.

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The Hardest Words to Pray

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  • Hywel R. Jones

What were the hardest words the Lord Jesus ever said in prayer? This article considers his mention of "the glory" and "the hour" in his high priestly prayer in John 17.

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Five Reasons Even Church Leaders Don't Pray as We Should

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  • Chuck Lawless

Even church leaders struggle with prayer, not praying as they should. Here are five reasons explaining why church leaders struggle to pray.

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Is Your Church a Praying Church?

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  • Chuck Lawless

Prayer is the life of the church. Is your church a praying church? How do you know if you are in a praying church? Here are ten questions to help you discern how your church is doing.

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Nine Ways for Church Leaders to Pray More

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  • Chuck Lawless

As a leader do you long to pray more? What are the causes of prayerlessness? This article gives nine causes of prayerlessness, and nine ways to cure them in order to attain to a greater prayer life

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Knowing God Can Do the Impossible Should Affect the Way We Live

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  • Casey Lewis

The sovereignty of God implies that God can do the impossible. This reality should impact your prayer, giving, and evangelism, and the article fleshes this out.

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John Owen’s Four Motives for the Pastor’s Prayer Life

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  • Andrew Roycroft

Prayer is essential to the life and ministry of the pastor. What is it that should motivate the prayers of the pastor? This article offers such four motives.

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Prayer that is not the grateful response of the justified sinner is likely to degenerate into an attempt to gain acceptance with God, apart from Christ. Graeme Goldsworthy
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Prayer is the sweat of the soul. Martin Luther
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Public prayer ought to be the overflow of one’s private praying. D. A. Carson
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Prayer is God’s appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus. D. A. Carson
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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings. D. A. Carson
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Ascetics and Ethics

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  • Jochem Douma

This article considers the role of prayer in ethics. This is otherwise known as ascetics, a subject that has all but disappeared from theological education. The author explains the meaning and content of the term, why it fell into disuse, and why it should be considered indispensable to ethics.

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Six Truths about Weak Faith and Little Prayers

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  • Paul David Tripp

There are times in the Christian life where your faith is weak and you have low expectations regarding answers to your prayers. In Acts 12 we are shown how God works in the midst of weak faith and little prayers.

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Prayer in Worship

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  • Eric Kampen

In a Reformed worship service there are three prayers offered: the prayer before the sermon, after the sermon, and the congregational prayer through singing. This article explains their relevance and content.

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Rediscovering Prayer: The Day That Prayer Began

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  • Gary J. Millar

From Genesis 4:24-25 this article shows that prayer is rooted in the gospel.

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Five Benefits of Praying the Psalms

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  • Donald S. Whitney

This article presents five benefits for the believer praying with the Psalms as the guide for prayer.

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How I Started Praying the Bible

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  • Donald S. Whitney

This article discusses how the entire Bible is a prayer book. It shows how especially the Psalms allow the believer to pray in response to God.

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Rediscovering Prayer: Prayer in the Old Testament

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  • Gary J. Millar

Throughout the Bible, prayer is gospel shaped. This article show how in the Old Testament prayer is based on God’s covenant promises.

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Union with Christ Be instructed by Calvin This is no empty ritual or vain superstition

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  • Jared Hood

Taking its cue from John Calvin, this article gives ten things that must characterize our approach to God in prayer and the view we must have of God in prayer.

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A Silent God Between the prayer and the answer

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  • Frans Bakker

On what grounds does God answer prayer? It is not based on your worthiness or the amount of prayers you give. God has his grounds to answer prayer.

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Methodical Men Harold Lindsell offers the secret to success

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  • Harold Lindsell

This article shows that the question that begins with, "What is the best method for…?" is the wrong question for the church to ask. God does not delight in using methods or machinery. He delights in using men of prayer.

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A Joint Venture Prayer, revival and missions go together – or not at all

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  • J Herbert Kane

Prayer, missions, and revival go together. This article demonstrates this by looking at the history of missions and revival.

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Consistent Calvinists Christians must broaden the submission of prayer to all life

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  • James M. Boice, Philip G. Ryken

How do you spot a Calvinist? A Calvinist is someone who has surrendered his will to God’s will, which is reflected by a life of consistent prayer.

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Prevailing Prayer

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  • Peter Barnes

From the life of George Muller this article gives five principles of prevailing prayer.

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Speak Up Prayer is not a spiritual shopping list, it’s a conversation

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  • Richard Pratt

When prayer focuses on what we need, then we are bound to neglect the One we need. Prayer becomes a shopping list, not a gaze at God. How can you change such an approach? This article answers that question.

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James McInnes (Clachan, Kintyre)

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  • J. M. MacPherson

This biography of James McInnes is shared to demonstrate how God works salvation even in pain for a seven-year-old boy. The article demonstrates the fundamental role of biblical parenting and prayer.

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Public Prayer: Leading & Following

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  • Gavin Beers

Public prayer happens at an official gathering of God’s people, where one leads the congregation in prayer, and thus the congregation prays with the leader. The biblical norm for who is to lead in prayer is that it must be a male. The article expands on this.

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Secret Prayer Openly Rewarded

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  • Maurice Roberts

This article looks at the life of Simeon and Anna as examples of how God answers and rewards secret prayer. Their prayer was answered in the coming of Christ.

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Daniel 9:1-19 – Prayer with Feeling

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  • John W. Keddie

A clear understanding of God’s character produces humbleness and seriousness in prayer. It brings a true sense of sin, which leads to confession and pleading. The article discusses how this flows from Daniel 9:1-19.

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The Prayer-Life of Jesus Christ

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  • James Clark

Looking at the prayer life of Jesus, this article shows how in his practice of prayer he was moved by God’s will and glory and thus serves as a model for learning to pray.

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Praying for Bad Things to Happen to Bad People

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  • Jeremy Writebol

Should you pray for bad things to happen to bad people? This article looks at imprecatory psalms. It shows how they call believers to love and seek God's justice, and how this should shape our prayers.

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Eight Keys to Personal Prayer

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  • Winfield Bevins

Prayer should be warm and intimate. How can you make your personal prayer to be like that? The article considers eight keys to this.

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Response to Your Baptism: Chapter 15 – A Doxology

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  • Karel Deddens

What is a doxology? This article discusses what the Scriptures say on the matter, highlighting especially the connection to prayer.

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Ten Reasons Pastors Must Be Prayer Warriors

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  • Nathan Busenitz

This article, through the sayings of ministers from church history, provides ten key reasons why ministers need to cultivate their personal prayer life.

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You Can Pray – The Father Loves to Hear Us Pray

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  • Tim Chester

The emphasis of Chapter 1 is that prayer may be uttered in confidence, because God as Father of his children want to hear their prayers.

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Beholding the Glory of Christ in Prayer

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  • Jason Garwood

Prayer is a means of beholding the glory of Christ. This article explains what this means and how we behold Christ's glory in prayer.

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Belgic Confession Article 26: Intercession and Prayer

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  • Klaas Stam

This article explains article 26 of the Belgic Confession (on Christ as our Advocate, and prayer). It also provides content questions.

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Tertullian on Prayer

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  • O.W. Holmes

A theme for which the writings of Tertullian may be studied with profit is the place of prayer in the life of the church. This study draws attention to and serves as an introduction to a field of study on prayer that has many riches for those who will mine there.

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How the Lord’s Prayer Transformed My Heart

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  • Tracy Richardson

How can you find joy in prayer? If praying is hard for you, you can use the Lord's Prayer as a template to enrich your prayer life.

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Hallowed Be Thy Name

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  • Jason Garwood

When we pray, "Hallowed be your Name," what are we praying for? We want to see God's glory revered in our lives and the lives of others. Thie article shows how this prayer shapes discipleship.

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Prayer Is the Most You Can Do

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  • Joey Zorina

Prayer is not the least you can do; it is the most you can do. This article explains by discussing things that hinder us from praying, misconceptions about prayer, and the problem of legalistic prayer. It is when we understand the purpose of prayer that we come to realize that prayer is the most we can do.

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Connecting Prayer to Mission

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  • Aaron Morrow

For mission work to go well it must be linked to prayer, because in the Bible mission and prayer are related. This article looks at Ephesians 6:19-20 and Colossians 4:2-4 to show this relationship.

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The Church on Its Knees The Life of the Church Series: Sermon Ten

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  • Sinclair B. Ferguson

Our prayers should express our confidence in our sovereign God. Just as the believers of Acts 4:23-31, we can with confidence spread our needs before God, trusting that he hears and answers our prayers.

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Lessons from a Prayer Warrior

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  • Mike Phay

Prayer is difficult for many. How do you learn to pray? This article shares lessons that can help you in learning to pray, but the best way to learn is by getting a mentor.

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The Praying and Crying Spirit

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  • J. Jonkman

According to Romans 8:15 and Galatians 4:6 the work of the Holy Spirit is to help the believer raise their cries to God in prayer. The article explains that the Spirit points the believer to the Father and the future, and it shows how the Spirit does this in our weaknesses.

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Why Do We Pray?

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  • Stanley D. Gale

What is prayer and why do we have to pray? Prayer is the divinely appointed means through which we commune with the living God and advance his kingdom. This article explains this definition in order to clarify the necessity for prayer and the reason for prayer.

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Thoughts on Prayer

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  • George Ophoff

From Philippians 4:6-7 this article offers some thoughts on prayer.

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Reflections on Reformation: Why Pray the Hours?

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  • Timothy LeCroy

This article makes a case from church history and Scripture for prayer at set times of the day.

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Called by Name

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  • Margaret Manning

How should you deal with an unanswered prayer? Learn to see beyond your requests by understanding what prayer is.

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Prayer Societies

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  • Barry York

How can you encourage Christians to pray? Consider the use of prayer societies as an encouragement to prayer.

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Relating Prayer and Pain: Psychological Analysis and Lamentations Research

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  • Heath Aaron Thomas

This article exposes diverse applications of psychological approaches to the book of Lamentations. It gives an analysis of the benefits and limitations of this research. It then continues to relate prayer and pain in the poetry of Lamentations by exploring the connections between Lamentations and the psychology of prayer.

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Lamentations and the Poetic Politics of Prayer

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  • Robin Parry

This article wants to indicate the political dimensions of the book of Lamentations. The Babylonian politics of violence are vividly depicted in the poetry of Lamentations. In the second part of the article, the author argues that Lamentations contributes to modern theo-political reflections. Readers are encouraged to bring political calamity into God’s presence through prayer.

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Nine Reasons to Pray

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  • Jason Helopoulos

Why should you pray if God already knows your heart? This article offers nine reasons, going beyond the simple truth that the Bible commands prayer.

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The Religious Life of Theological Students

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  • Benjamin B. Warfield

This article considers what the devotional life of theological students might look like. Important are matters like study, devotion, prayer, and religious exercise.

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Prayer in the Life of Jesus

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  • Mark Dever

This article considers the prayer life of Jesus, taking its starting point from Mark 6:45-46. It considers where he prayed, with whom he prayed, and when he prayed, all the while outlining the significance for us as well.

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Seasoning the Heart for Prayer

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  • Ken Puls

How do you prepare for communion with God in prayer? This article discusses five ways we can prepare the heart and mind for prayer.

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Prayer and the Sovereignty of God

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  • David Overway

Does prayer change things? To answer this question one must understand the relationship between prayer and the sovereignty of God. It is through this understanding that one learns that prayer is submission to God’s will.

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Family Prayer

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  • Garry Eriks

Family prayer is a precious time of fellowship with God by speaking to him. This article explains the role of the father in leading family prayer, the reasons for practicing it, its importance, and then practical ways of conducting it.

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Congregational Prayer

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  • Ronald L. Cammenga

Congregational prayer is part of the worship of God’s people, so it must receive proper attention. This article looks at the role of the minister and congregation in congregational prayer.

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Cultivating Personal Prayer

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  • Jason L. Kortering

Personal prayer is one-to-one communion with God. This article explains the importance of personal prayer, and the way of cultivating it.

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Prayer: God’s Gift to His Covenant People

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

Prayer is a gift of God to his covenant people. Therefore, to understand the nature of prayer, one must understand the nature of the covenant. The article explains this, showing how this understanding shapes the practice of the believer in prayer.

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Prepare Your Public Prayers: Helpful Advice from D.A. Carson

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  • D. A. Carson

Prepare your public prayer. Why? Because public prayer is not only done in the presence of God, but also those listening. Therefore, it provides an opportunity to teach a congregation how to pray.

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Prayer

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  • Philip B. Power

This article seeks to encourage the believer on the importance of prayer and relying upon God rather than one's own wisdom. It impresses upon the believer the importance of seeking God's will, learning the ways of God, doing his will, and rejoicing in his ways.

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Prayer

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  • J. C. Ryle

The author states that prayer is the most important topic in practical religion. All other subjects are secondary. The author offers seven reasons why this is so. Included among these reasons are the subjects of salvation, the character of a true Christian, private prayer, prayer as a source of encouragement, and prayer as a recipe for happiness and contentment.

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New Life amid the Alien Corn: The Book of Ruth

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  • Michael E. W. Thompson

What is the role of prayer in the narrative of Ruth? The article gives particular attention to the providence of God, which is effected by the actions of God and the prayers of intercession and thanksgiving by Ruth and Boaz.

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How to Pray through the Psalms

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  • Donald S. Whitney

This article reminds us that God gave the Psalms to us so that we would, in prayer, give them back to him. It then provides a guide for how to pray daily through the Psalms.

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Seven Prayer Lists You Already Have

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  • Eric McKiddie

How do you organize your prayer life as a pastor? This article suggests seven prayer lists you can use for your pastoral prayer.

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Seven Principles of Prayer

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  • D. Broughton Knox

This article considers how we ought to pray. It outlines seven principles that essentially span the whole of a prayer: relationship, recognition, request, repetition, resignation, rejoicing, and realization.

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Philippians 4:6-7 – Prayer and the Peace of God

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  • Hugh M. Cartwright

This article, through the lens of Philippians 4:6-7, considers the blessing of prayer and the peace the believer has in Christ, in the face of frailty and danger.

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I’ve Prayed So Long!

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  • J. Van Amstel

Does God listen to and answer prayer? This is a question that some Christians ask, and that this article seeks to answer.

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A Searchlight on Daily Bread (Matthew 6:11)

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  • J. Duncan M. Derrett

How should the reference to bread in Matthew 6:11 and John 6:35 be best understood? This article argues that it is an error to presuppose that this is a prayer for physical bread. and wants to remind readers of the distinction between literal bread and its use as a metaphor. The author refers to texts like Deuteronomy 8:3 and Isaiah 55:1-4 as support of a metaphorical understanding.

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Persevere in Prayer!

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  • Tim Challies

Prayer is and always will be a battle, because of the temptation to give up. This article gives tips for persevering in prayer.

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When Ye Pray

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  • Martin VanderWal

This article is a Bible study on Matthew 6:5-15, the focus of which is prayer.

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How to Pray All Day

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  • Tim Challies

How can you pray without ceasing? Begin, spend, and close every day with God. This is the key to a life of prayer.

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A Powerful Practice for Prayer

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  • Tim Challies

Is prayer a struggle for you? There is a cure to this struggle: never resist the least urge to pray. The article explains how this can cure the struggle to pray.

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James 4:2-3 – Desperation and Hope

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  • Al Baker

What do your prayers look like? This article considers the meaning of James 4:2-3 as it pertains to prayer.

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Four Methods to Organize Your Prayer Life

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  • Tim Challies

Praying in concentric circles, praying with a prayer mate, and using prayer cards can help in organizing your prayer life. Let the article explain.

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How to Pray When Your Soul Is Bone Dry

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  • Tim Challies

Prayer is important in the life of every Christian. However, at times you do not feel like praying. What should you do when that happens. The article discusses the matter.

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3 Keys to A Powerful Prayer Life

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  • Tim Challies

A quiet hour and quiet heart are what you need for a life of powerful prayer. This article explains.

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Listening and Prayer

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  • John van Eyk

This article shows that prayer is essential for those who listen to preaching. It discusses four things that must shape such a prayer.

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Preaching and Prayer

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  • John van Eyk

The connection between preaching and prayer cannot be divorced. In fact this article argues that preaching advances through prayer. It then discusses how Christians should pray for the preaching and the preacher.

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Colossians 1:9-12 – Praying for Our Fellow Believers

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  • David Marshall

This article considers how we may pray for each other, through a study of the prayer of Colossians 1:9-12.

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The Prayer Meeting and Corporate Prayer

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  • William W. Harrell Jr.

Is corporate prayer important? This article looks at biblical examples on corporate prayer and it gives seven reasons why Christians should pray together.

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Leading in Public Prayer

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  • Stuart Olyott

This article touches on the purpose of prayer in the worship service.

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Treasuring Others

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  • Alasdair Groves

Have you realized that your brothers and sisters in Christ are one of your heavenly treasures, already for the here and now? This article explains that reality, and how it shapes your daily life, whether that's parenting, small talk, prayer, or confessing sin.

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A Sacrifice of Love

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  • Donald S. Stone

Corporate prayer is essential to the life of the church and believer. It expresses oneness, love, and sacrifice; it is a way of remembrance. Through corporate prayer we follow in the footsteps of those who went before us.

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The Prayer of the Lord – Our Father in Heaven

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  • Philip G. Ryken

From the Lord Jesus, Christians learn to make the fatherhood of God essential to prayer. In chapter 2 Ryken provides insight into the significance of this manner of addressing God.

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Praying with the Patriarchs

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  • Derek W. H. Thomas

This article is introduced with the question, "Does God take risks?" The intention is to answer the basic question whether God changes his mind due to human influence (such as prayer) and therefore whether he absolutely knows the future. Open theism takes as one of its key texts Genesis 18:22-23. The article considers this passage and concludes that here God is condescending to our human weakness and frailty.

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Taking Hold of God – Martin Luther on Prayer and Reformation

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  • Brian G. Najapfour

In this chapter the author first shows that prayer is an important key to understanding Martin Luther as a Reformer and theologian. He further addresses Luther’s basic theology of prayer, his emphasis on the Trinity in prayer, and his personal prayer life.

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The Minister’s Private Prayer

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  • Charles H. Spurgeon

The pastor should always be in prayer. Private prayer is the only place where he prevails. This article shows that the minister must pray in preparing a sermon, in preaching, and after preaching.

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Thoughts on Prayer from Charles Spurgeon

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  • Don Haddleton

This article gives some reflections of Charles Spurgeon on prayer.

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Lord Teach Us to Pray

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  • Kevin C. Carr

What is prayer? Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will. How can we know things agreeable to his will? In the Lord's Prayer Jesus answer this question. We learn to seek reverent regard for God's name, steady advancement of his kingdom, and obedient respect for his will. And we also learn to pray for humble dependency, a broken and contrite heart, and personal holiness.

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Praying with Paul – Lessons from the School of Prayer

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  • D. A. Carson

Chapter 1 is Carson’s summary of eight major lessons on prayer that he has learned from his interaction with Scripture and other mature Christians. At the end of the chapter there are questions for review and reflection.

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Praying with Paul – Neglected Prayer

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  • D. A. Carson

Carson sees prayer as the most urgent need of the church in the Western world today and he wants to encourage the practice of prayer in the church.

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What Matthew Henry Can Teach us about Prayer

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  • Joey Tomlinson

This article shows from the life of Matthew Henry that you can shape your prayer life with adoration, confession, petition, thanksgiving, and intercession.

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Three Critical Truths about the Sovereignty of God and Prayer

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  • Brian G. Hedges

If God is sovereign, why pray? Understanding the relationship between prayer and the sovereignty of God is important to the practice of prayer, for it protects one against fatalism. This article gives three important truths about the relationship between prayer and the sovereignty of God.

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The Case for Persistence in Prayer

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  • Curtis C. Mitchell

Persistence in prayer—should the same matter be brought before God in prayer again and again? The author demonstrates how it functioned in the life of Christ. Luke 11:5-8 functions as illustration.

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It is our bounden duty to live in obedience, but it would prove our utter ruin to live on obedience. William Secker
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