item: #1 of 23 id: 11553 author: None title: The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer date: None words: 124647 flesch: 80 summary: The old man was fervently praying; but when he saw young C. with the pail of provisions, he held up both hands and said, Now I know that God heareth prayer. Every step was accomplished by the simple way of prayer; and, when I slept, late that night, in a cosy room at the Methodist parsonage in N.B., I could look back over the last few weeks, and thank God for the _power of prayer_. keywords: answer; bed; business; case; children; christian; church; come; day; days; death; dollars; faith; family; father; friend; god; good; hand; heart; help; home; house; husband; jesus; lady; left; letter; life; little; lord; man; means; meeting; mind; missionary; money; months; morning; mother; need; new; night; pay; power; prayer; praying; room; sick; thought; time; trust; way; weeks; wife; woman; work; years cache: 11553.txt plain text: 11553.txt item: #2 of 23 id: 12042 author: Byrum, Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) title: The value of a praying mother date: None words: 27238 flesch: 84 summary: Bessie Sees Her Duty CHAPTER XXIV. With throbbing heart Bessie ran to her room, which was already getting hot from the fire: she fell upon her knees by the window where she could see the flames leaping from tree to tree, and began to call mightily upon God. keywords: bessie; chapter; child; children; father; god; heart; help; home; life; lord; love; mother; mrs; parents; prayer; time; way; worthington cache: 12042.txt plain text: 12042.txt item: #3 of 23 id: 13196 author: Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey) title: Quiet Talks on Prayer date: None words: 53955 flesch: 85 summary: If fatigued in body or wearied in spirit, He had recourse to His one unfailing habit of _prayer. How plain it becomes that all the marvellous power displayed in His brief earthly career _came through prayer_. keywords: action; bit; book; day; earth; father; god; heart; human; jesus; know; life; love; man; master; men; night; paul; place; plan; power; prayer; praying; purpose; satan; second; service; spirit; thing; thinking; thought; thy; time; touch; way; word cache: 13196.txt plain text: 13196.txt item: #4 of 23 id: 14543 author: Unknown title: False Friends, and The Sailor's Resolve date: None words: 6047 flesch: 83 summary: Page 25._] Philip, your conduct has distressed me exceedingly, said Lady Grange, laying her hand on the arm of her son, as they entered together the elegant apartment which had been fitted up as her boudoir. Lady Grange pressed her hand over her eyes, and a sigh, a very heavy sigh, burst from her bosom. keywords: grange; johnny; jonas; lady; man; mother; philip; son; way cache: 14543.txt plain text: 14543.txt item: #5 of 23 id: 20245 author: Müller, George title: A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 4 date: None words: 162760 flesch: 84 summary: Lord help me, not only to trust in Thee more and more, but also to love Thee more and more, seeing that Thou dost condescend to use such a poor sinful servant! My assurance has been more and more increasing that God will build for Himself a large Orphan-House in this city, to show to the inhabitants, and to all who may read and hear about it, what a blessed thing it is to trust in Him.--Of late I have seen, by God's grace, more and more, how entirely unworthy I am of being used by God for this glorious and honourable service, and I can only say, Lord here is thy servant, if thou art pleased to use such a one as I am. keywords: 10l; 10s; account; articles; boxes; brethren; bristol; brother; building; children; come; day; days; dear; ditto; donation; evening; expenses; faith; fund; god; half; hand; having; help; house; institution; labourers; left; little; lord; means; money; morning; need; new; objects; orphan house; orphans; prayer; reports; sale; sum; time; today; tracts; way; week; work; year cache: 20245.txt plain text: 20245.txt item: #6 of 23 id: 20379 author: Müller, George title: A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 1 date: None words: 84214 flesch: 78 summary: May we not belong to those who say and write continually,' Lord,' 'Lord,' but who have Him not deeply in their hearts. Lord, when saw we Thee an hungered, and fed Thee? or thirsty, and gave Thee drink? keywords: account; brethren; bristol; brother; children; craik; day; days; evening; father; god; having; heart; house; left; lord; matter; means; mind; money; morning; orphan; prayer; read; scriptures; state; things; time; today; way; word; work; years cache: 20379.txt plain text: 20379.txt item: #7 of 23 id: 21351 author: Jackson, Percival title: The Prayer Book Explained date: None words: 46505 flesch: 80 summary: The verse _Remember not Lord_ &c. was introduced at the beginning of the same Service, as an Anthem to Psalm cxliii. And if the prophet David did think that the very meeting of men together and their accompanying one another to the House of God should make the bond of their love insoluble, and tie them in a league of inviolable amity (Ps. lv. 14); how much more may we judge it reasonable to hope that the like effects may grow _in each of the people towards other_, in them keywords: acts; bible; book; chapter; christ; church; collects; creed; day; evening; father; form; god; great; holy; hymn; iii; jesus; john; lessons; life; litany; lord; man; morning; order; people; praise; prayer; psalms; second; service; time; use; words; worship cache: 21351.txt plain text: 21351.txt item: #8 of 23 id: 22034 author: Müller, George title: A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 2 date: None words: 75590 flesch: 85 summary: Lord�s day. Lord�s day. keywords: 10s; bread; brethren; bristol; brother; children; day; days; evening; father; god; hand; help; house; labourers; left; little; lord; means; money; morning; need; orphans; prayer; sister; time; today; work; yesterday cache: 22034.txt plain text: 22034.txt item: #9 of 23 id: 22148 author: Müller, George title: A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 3 date: None words: 99381 flesch: 79 summary: Lord�s day. How truly precious, to see thus so manifestly the hand of God day by day stretched out on our behalf! Feb. 20. keywords: articles; brethren; brother; children; church; day; dear; evening; faith; god; hand; having; help; house; left; lord; lord jesus; means; money; morning; need; orphans; prayer; sale; sister; things; time; today; way; word; work; yesterday cache: 22148.txt plain text: 22148.txt item: #10 of 23 id: 22295 author: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint title: On Prayer and The Contemplative Life date: None words: 74334 flesch: 77 summary: But _contemplation_ is concerned with the simple dwelling upon the truth itself. Further, _latria_ seems to come under religion. keywords: acts; angels; charity; consequently; contemplative; desire; devotion; divine; end; faith; god; good; gregory; heart; holy; iii; knowledge; life; lord; love; man; means; men; mind; order; prayer; reason; religion; s. augustine; s. gregory; s. thomas; saints; sense; soul; thee; things; thomas; thou; thy; truth; virtue; way; words cache: 22295.txt plain text: 22295.txt item: #11 of 23 id: 25891 author: Müller, George title: Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives date: None words: 32465 flesch: 73 summary: The Moody Press 153 Institute Place Chicago I never remember, in all my Christian course, a period now (in March, 1895) of sixty-nine years and four months, that I ever SINCERELY and PATIENTLY sought to know the will of God by _the teaching of the Holy Ghost_, through the instrumentality of the _Word of God_, but I have been ALWAYS directed rightly. But if _honesty of heart_ and _uprightness before God_ were lacking, or if I did not _patiently_ wait upon God for instruction, or if I preferred _the counsel of my fellow men_ to the declarations of _the Word of the living God_, I made great mistakes. keywords: answer; children; come; day; faith; god; hand; heart; help; house; lord; means; müller; orphan; prayer; time; trust; work; years cache: 25891.txt plain text: 25891.txt item: #12 of 23 id: 26033 author: Goforth, Rosalind title: How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time date: None words: 32298 flesch: 83 summary: The first indication we had of coming danger was when our mail carriers running to and from Tientsin were stopped and our mails returned. Hints had been given us of coming danger, but that was all; none spoke of what all felt,--that we were probably going to our death. keywords: answer; children; china; christ; come; day; days; god; goforth; help; home; husband; life; lord; man; mission; need; people; power; prayer; time; way; work; years cache: 26033.txt plain text: 26033.txt item: #13 of 23 id: 26522 author: Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan) title: George Müller of Bristol, and His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God date: None words: 138622 flesch: 68 summary: Such love is benevolence rather than complacence, and so it is of God, for He loveth the unthankful and the evil: and he that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. The well-known autobiography, entitled Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with George Muller, had been, and was still being, so greatly used by God in the edification of believers and the conversion of unbelievers that I hesitated to countenance any attempt to supersede or even supplement it. keywords: answer; believers; blessing; brethren; bristol; brother; children; christ; church; come; day; days; divine; faith; father; george muller; god; good; grace; hand; heart; help; holy; house; human; institution; jesus; knowledge; left; life; living; lord; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; means; men; mind; money; months; muller; need; new; orphan; orphan work; place; pounds; power; prayer; self; servant; service; soul; spirit; step; things; thought; time; trust; truth; way; witness; word; work; years cache: 26522.txt plain text: 26522.txt item: #14 of 23 id: 26709 author: Murray, Andrew title: Lord, Teach Us To Pray date: None words: 7974 flesch: 84 summary: Let His name, His infinite Father-love, the love with which He loved Thee, according to Thy prayer, BE IN US. Thy Father_ shall recompense thee;' _ keywords: father; god; lord; prayer; spirit; worship cache: 26709.txt plain text: 26709.txt item: #15 of 23 id: 27288 author: Müller, George title: The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller date: None words: 161111 flesch: 74 summary: While reading the account about the centurion and the raising from death of the widow's son at Nain, I lifted up my heart to the Lord Jesus thus: Lord Jesus, thou hast the same power now. Lord, do with me as seemeth thee best! keywords: account; answer; brethren; brother; building; children; day; days; dear; desire; evening; expenses; faith; father; god; hand; having; heart; help; house; institution; lord; lord jesus; matter; means; mind; money; months; morning; need; new; number; orphan house; orphans; pounds; prayer; present; schools; shillings; sum; things; time; way; word; work; year cache: 27288.txt plain text: 27288.txt item: #16 of 23 id: 28102 author: Kingsley, Florence Morse title: The Transfiguration of Miss Philura date: None words: 5783 flesch: 76 summary: But the twenties, with their attendant dreams and follies, were definitely past; just how long past no one knew exactly--Miss Philura never informed the curious on this point. Not that Miss Philura ever admitted such dubious thoughts to the select circle of her conscious reflections; more years ago than she cared to count she had grappled with her discontent, had thrust it resolutely out of sight, and on the top of it she had planted a big stone marked Resignation. keywords: deuser; eyes; god; good; miss; mrs; philura; rev; rice; van cache: 28102.txt plain text: 28102.txt item: #17 of 23 id: 36891 author: Conwell, Russell H. title: Health, Healing, and Faith date: None words: 11974 flesch: 65 summary: The records of many praying churches probably show the same conditions. We must reassert that this fact is not recorded here to sustain any idea that the Temple is a sacred place above many other churches, cathedrals, and holy places, but to sustain the opinion that there are places more sacred than others to certain people, and that burdened hearts and minds would act wisely if they sought some such place when the answer to their prayer seems especially vital. keywords: bible; cases; church; faith; god; home; lord; man; men; number; people; prayer; spirit; temple; work; years cache: 36891.txt plain text: 36891.txt item: #18 of 23 id: 36899 author: Conwell, Russell H. title: Praying for Money date: None words: 14115 flesch: 70 summary: Praying for Money Spiritual Telepathy Day of Pentecost Axioms Praying for Money Unanswered Prayers Prayer for Others Forms of Prayer _ The reports of the answers to prayer so often use the words happened to think that the observer cannot escape the conviction that either the living human mind does send spirit messages or that some mysterious power acts for it in forwarding messages. keywords: bible; business; child; church; day; father; god; good; home; life; lord; man; men; new; offering; people; prayer; spirit; time cache: 36899.txt plain text: 36899.txt item: #19 of 23 id: 37143 author: Conwell, Russell H. title: Subconscious Religion date: None words: 11668 flesch: 74 summary: I Does God Answer Christians Only? What might be the consensus of opinion found in a digest of all the testimonies of mankind cannot be surmised, but it did not appear that God was a respecter of persons through those years of prayer at the Baptist Temple. Such servants of God can offer prayer which avail much more than the frightened call of the worldly minded, egotistic, and selfish enemy of good people and good principles. keywords: ask; christ; day; faith; god; good; heart; lord; man; men; prayer; praying; soul; spirit; thou; thy; world cache: 37143.txt plain text: 37143.txt item: #20 of 23 id: 37501 author: Knox-Little, W. J. (William John) title: In Answer to Prayer date: None words: 20017 flesch: 74 summary: God does not deal with all alike, either in His gifts of faith or in those of experience. The soul which waits upon God finds out sooner or later that the prayers which seem to be unanswered are those which may be most truly answered. keywords: answer; children; christ; christian; church; day; faith; friend; god; home; life; lord; man; men; money; new; place; prayer; rev; time; work; years cache: 37501.txt plain text: 37501.txt item: #21 of 23 id: 41641 author: Coolidge, Susan title: Just Sixteen. date: None words: 62070 flesch: 86 summary: She saw her mother, still a young woman then, and pretty with the faded elegance which had been her characteristic, weighing the sugar and plums, and slicing the citron, while her own daring little hands plied the chopper in that very bowl. You are embalmed in the thoughts and loves of thousands of little men and women._--EXCHANGE. keywords: children; come; cousin; day; days; dear; door; etelka; eyes; face; family; father; fire; georgie; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; idea; jan; john; left; life; little; look; man; mind; miss; mother; mrs; new; night; pair; people; place; room; sea; set; sort; stockings; things; thought; time; way; white; work; years cache: 41641.txt plain text: 41641.txt item: #22 of 23 id: 44950 author: Optic, Oliver title: Plane and Plank; or, The Mishaps of a Mechanic date: None words: 56799 flesch: 89 summary: I explained to Mr. Gracewood that I had left Mr. Rockwood and an officer outside of the house. Leaving Mr. Rockwood in the entry, I went in to see Mr. Gracewood again. keywords: boat; boy; brother; captain; dollars; door; farringford; father; good; gracewood; greenough; house; left; lynch; man; money; mrs; night; phil; rockwood; room; sir; street; time; want; work; young cache: 44950.txt plain text: 44950.txt item: #23 of 23 id: 7026 author: Shaw, S. B. (Solomon Benjamin) title: Children's Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer date: None words: 26377 flesch: 88 summary: Little children not only have a deep faith but a childlike trust in believing that God answers their prayers. [Illustration: THE CRIES OF THE DROWNING CHILD GREW FAINTER AND FAINTER] They threatened to duck him, for these wicked big boys had often frightened little boys into robbing gardens for them. keywords: boy; child; children; eyes; face; father; girl; god; heart; heaven; home; illustration; jesus; little; mama; man; mother; poor; prayer; sir; years cache: 7026.txt plain text: 7026.txt