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    Prayer meetings: Preparing for the week of prayer
    Prayer meetings: Preparing for the week of prayer
    Prayer meetings: Preparing for the week of prayer
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    Prayer meetings: Preparing for the week of prayer

    By C. H. Spurgeon

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    "All these continued in common agreement in prayer and supplication." Acts 1:14.

    In all churches that are not fully bound and bound by liturgies and rituals, it has been common to hold meetings for social prayer.
    We call them prayer meetings.

    Now, it may be profitable, from time to time, to look at some of our institutions, see if they are scriptural to realize their defects, see in what sense they can be improved or observe their merits so that we can be further induced to carry them .

    The subject of this message was suggested by the fact that we will meet for a day of prayer tomorrow, it is the prayer meetings assemblies of the people of God for worship of this peculiar kind that consists of each expressing his desire before the Lord. Let me share with you this message
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBible Study Books
    Release dateJan 29, 2018
    ISBN9788582184011
    Prayer meetings: Preparing for the week of prayer
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    C. H. Spurgeon

    CHARLES H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) was known as England's most prominent preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. He preached his first sermon at the age of 16, and by 22, he was the most popular preacher of his day, habitually addressing congregations of six to ten thousand. In addition, he was active in philanthropic work and evangelism. Spurgeon is the author of numerous books, including All of Grace, Finding Peace in Life's Storms, The Anointed Life, and Praying Successfully.

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      Prayer meetings - C. H. Spurgeon

      SUMMARY

      PREFACE

      THE APOSTOLIC HISTORY OF MEETINGS FOR PRAYER

      WHAT ARE THE USES OF THE PRAYER MEETING?

      WHAT ARE THE HINDRANCES TO THE PRAYER MEETING?

      WHAT SHOULD BE THE GREAT OBJECTIVE OF THE PRAYER MEETING AND THAT FOR WHICH WE SHOULD SEEK THE ANSWER?

      PREPARING FOR THE WEEK OF PRAYER

      PRAYER MEETINGS

      These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication. Acts 1:14.

      IN all those churches which are not altogether tied and bound by liturgies and rituals, it has been common to hold meetings for social prayer.

      We call them prayer meetings.

      Now, it may be profitable, now and then, to look over some of our institutions, to see whether they are Scriptural to notice their defects, to see in what respect they may be improved, or to observe their merits that we may be induced still further to carry them on.

      The subject, therefore, this evening, suggested to me by the fact that we are going to meet for a day of prayer tomorrow, is that of prayer meetings assemblies of the people of God for worship of that peculiar kind which consists in each one expressing his desire before the Lord. Let us, then, go through very briefly.

      THE APOSTOLIC HISTORY OF MEETINGS FOR PRAYER

      These meetings must have been very common, indeed. They were, doubtless, everyday things, but still there are some few records of the facts connected with them which may be instructive.

      The first meeting for prayer which we find after our Lord’s ascension to heaven is the one mentioned in the text and we are led from it to remark that united prayer is the comfort of a disconsolate Church. Can you judge of the sorrow which filled the hearts of the disciples when their Lord was gone from them?

      They were an army without a leader, a flock without a shepherd, a family without a head. Exposed to innumerable trials, the strong, brazen wall of His presence, which had been round about them, was now withdrawn. In the deep desolation of their spirits they resorted to prayer.

      They were like a flock of sheep that will huddle together in a storm, or come closer, each to its fellow, when they hear the sound of the wolf. Poor defenseless creatures as they were, they yet loved to come together and would die together if necessary.

      They felt that nothing made them so happy, nothing so emboldened them, nothing so strengthened them to bear their daily difficulties as to draw near to God in common supplication! Beloved, let every church learn the value of its prayer meetings in its dark hours! When the pastor is dead, and when it has been difficult to find a suitable successor.

      When, it may

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