Prayers (Compilations) — Compilations

The Burden of God and the Cost of a Broken Heart

I wonder this Thursday evening if you would allow me to ask you, do you and I know something about the burden of God? You know what happens when God breaks my heart? I see people the way that God sees them.

Seeing People Through a Broken Heart

You say, why brother Gerard? Because the Prophet said, my eyes has affected my heart. You know what? Because the Prophet said, observation affects intercession. And when your heart is broken, you know what happens to you?

You see people the way that God sees them. So you say, oh, what will it cost me? What will it cost me for God to break my heart? You know what it will cost me? It will cost me absolutely everything. Absolutely everything.

A Call to Young Bible School Students

Can I ask you tonight, these beautiful young lives, you've come to this Bible school. Listen, it will be a tragic thing. If you've come to this Bible school and you've listened to all these wonderful messages that is coming during the day, your heart has been affected.

But listen, my young friend, it will be a terrible thing for you to leave this Bible school without trusting God for a broken heart.

Mercy, Redemption, and the Coming Kingdom

Father, we thank you tonight for every redeemed soul, not only here, but to the ends of the earth. Lord, I look at some of these men, I know, but for the grace of God, they'd be in prison tonight or in hell.

When they were ready to fall on the edge of the precipice, out of time into eternity. When there was no eye to pity them, your eye pitied them. When there was no arm long enough to reach them, your arm reached them.

When there was no hand strong enough to grasp them, you lifted the beggar from the dunghill. I look at these precious fellows here tonight, these Mexican brothers, these Indians tonight. Lord, I bless you that one day around the throne of God in heaven, they'll be from every kindred and nation and people and tongue.

Lord, whether some have been saved 10 minutes before they were raptured or served Christ for 50 or 80 years won't make any difference. We thank we're going into society which is ageless, endless, sinless, but not joyless, it's full of joy.

Jesus is going to reign forever and ever. Lord, we bless you for that day when you said every knee shall bow. Lord, we're anxious to see these villains who have ruled the empires of the world, Mussolini's and Stalin's and Hitler's.

These men who have written the history of their countries in human blood. We think of all the millions who have marched to war, devastating so much. And yet, Lord, we bless you, you're going to call, they're going to speak, and at the voice of the Son of God.

The Voice of the Son of God and the Need for Revival

Lord, there'll be millions of people who've heard your voice in church. They've heard it under conviction of sin. They've heard it under the wrath of God. And yet they never obeyed that voice. God, what an awful thing.

There are millions tonight who will never hear the voice of Jesus unless we have a Holy Ghost revival throughout the world. But we've millions of people who have heard and they've not obeyed. But Lord, one day at the voice of the Son of God, you said everybody shall come.

They're going to obey your voice that time anyhow. Blessed Lord, we pray, and thank you for mercy to us. Thank you for mercy to our nation, our so-called Christian nation. We've broken every commandment of God a million times today, and yet you seem to sit back and don't invade us.

And Lord, we're praying for a Holy Ghost invasion before we have a Russian invasion, before we have an invasion of war or death. We pray again, spare us, God, in our stupidity. Open our eyes, open our understanding, open our wills to do the will of God.

Lord, show us the dross of this world and the glory of the world to come. Lord, we bless you for this holy word you've given, this lamp for our feet, this light for our path. We praise you, Father, for all who down the ages, the men who were burned at the stake to give us this wonderful, wonderful book.

Faith in God's Promises and the Finished Work of Christ

I've been thinking tonight, Lord, of that wonderful young Scotsman, Hugh McHale, going to the marketplace as a young man, joyfully singing in front of the scaffold, because he knew in whom he had believed.

We thank you that we know that tonight. We know in whom we have believed. Heaven and earth may pass away, but Lord, you have never broken a promise, and you never will break a promise. Thy word, O God, is forever and ever, and the sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

We thank you, you've said this in Hebrews, thy throne, O God, shall last forever and forever. We bless you again, you've singled it down. He didn't need the help of the Virgin Mary, because you say that he by himself purged our sins.

Lord, I think at the moment when he said it is finished, I think every demon in hell must have been afraid. I believe every angel in heaven went into ecstasy, because he put an end to the old sacrificial system, and he abolished the priestcraft and made us a kingdom of priests unto God.

Equal Standing Before God and Transformed Lives

Lord, I bless you, these dear men, some here tonight may not have a penny in the bank, but they have the same standing at the throne of God as a multi-millionaire. We may not be brilliant and read our Bible in Hebrew and Greek, but we thank you we read the word of God, and we thank you that you speak to us, Lord God of hosts.

We thank you you do lift the beggar from the dunghill and make him a prince unto God. Lord, we've living testimony that you can not only turn warts into wine, you've turned sinners into saints, you've turned liars into truthful people, you've changed the dead from death to life, you've brought the hopeless into hope, you've brought the unbelievers into belief, you've brought the faithless into faith.

We thank you that even as the old song says, the hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets, before we reach the heavenly fields or walk the golden streets. Lord, we bless you, I thank you for everybody who's been added to your kingdom through the mysteries around the world this very day.

The Faith of Persecuted Saints

I remember the precious saints in Russia tied up in prison. Lord, they hardly can get a breath of fresh air, never mind a new suit and new clothes, and yet Lord, I bless you that they're not willing, they're like those wonderful people in Hebrews 11, not accepting deliverance.

God, I bless you for their stubborn faith. I thank you Lord, they refused to be intimidated by men or by guns or by a system. Dear Lord, in heaven we'll feel embarrassed at the sight of them, we've lived an easy life to date, and their daily toil is misery and grief and sorrow and anguish, and yet Lord, as the hymn says of Jesus, who every grief hath known that rings the human breast, and takes and bears them for his own that all in him may rest, we thank you for this.

Let's sing a verse, I know not why his wondrous grace...

Humbling Ourselves Before God

Our Father, as we just bow again this evening for another moment in the greatness of what the presence of God has been about this day, is it such a wonderful privilege for us to recognize again this first day night that the greatest desire in the heart of God is that you will bring us to a place where as your people we would be in the dust before you.

We are reminded that your word is said unto us that if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.

And our God and our Father, we thank thee tonight that we are thy people. We thank thee that we have been called by thy name. This evening we want to come and we want to humble ourselves before you. And God I confess tonight in your presence that there are so many times in the inadequacy of my own life that I don't really understand the depth of what it means to sit in the dust before God.

But Father this first day night to the best of our ability, do we want to come and sit before you and we want to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God. We thank you this evening for that which you are able to do within our hearts and our lives.

The Spirit's Work in Breaking and Sanctifying the Heart

We thank you tonight that we are serving a prayer answering God. We thank you this evening that there is absolutely nothing that you are not able to do. And Father thou knowest this evening the tremendous sense of fear and tremble that has been reigning in my heart as I contemplated this evening.

Realize the responsibility of coming in as an outsider in the midst of what God is doing. And yet God I am so grateful to know that our responsibility is the tremendous ability, is our response to the tremendous ability of God.

So this evening we pray that as we ponder upon your word we ask that there will be a moment in this gathering tonight that somehow that the Spirit of God will come to break our hearts. And Father we confess before thee that we cannot break ourselves.

But we acknowledge this night that when the Spirit of God comes something deep within our hearts will begin to break and melt. And we would recognize the depth of our need before thee. We ask that you would sanctify this place this night.

A Burning Heart for Christ

We thank you for these beautiful young lives. Lord I walk into this meeting tonight and as I saw these young lives I felt if I could go and climb underneath a blanket somewhere for days and sought my heart out before God.

For the tremendous potential that is in store in every one of these precious lives. So this evening we pray that you will come and that our lives will become intoxicated with the presence of God. And that we would become saturated with the life of Christ.

So that we would be ablaze for the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for your word that you have given unto us this evening. We submit ourselves under the authority of scripture. And Father God we pray this night that we would be like those disciples of old.

That when you departed out of their presence on the way to Emmaus that they turned to one another and they said did not our hearts burn within us when he spoke to us on the way. We ask tonight in Jesus name that you will give us the burning heart.

And as you give us the burning heart we pray that you will give us the broken heart. As we submit ourselves to the blessedness of what your word is about. In Jesus name. Amen.

My lips I'm feeling. Somebody touched the throne of grace. And somebody pleaded to faith. And there they said.