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Example sentences for "earnest prayer"

  • Earnest prayer failed to bring me light on this matter.

  • May God forever bless Henry, his faithful companion, and his dear children, is my earnest prayer.

  • God; which must be implored by earnest prayer, seconded by watchfulness and fasting.

  • Now this will not be got but by earnest prayer, and much attending upon God; also there must not be admitted by thee that thy heart be stuffed with cumbering cares of this world, for they are of a choking nature.

  • The astonishing fact is, that one so unlettered should, by intense thought, by earnest prayer, and by comparing one passage with another, arrive eventually at so clear a view both of the external and internal meaning of the whole Bible.

  • It is my earnest prayer, that ye be not like unto this, but rather that ye keep your faces steadfastly turned to the light, so that ye may be as lighted torches in the dark places of life.

  • It is my earnest prayer that we may all be in the Kingdom of God, and near Him.

  • It is my earnest prayer to God that by His Mercy and Loving Kindness you may all be united, and filled with the utmost joy.

  • Finally I went to the Lord one morning in earnest prayer.

  • I went to my room that evening with a heavy heart and spent some time on my knees in earnest prayer.

  • Going to the Lord in earnest prayer, I made a perfect consecration of all to God.

  • Brother Bolds and I both went to God in earnest prayer, and the Lord revealed to each of us independently of the other that we had on hands a case of evil spirits.

  • When the letter came, therefore, we felt very reluctant to leave, and after going to God in earnest prayer, we could not feel that he wanted us to start that day.

  • I came to God in earnest prayer, claimed my privilege as a minister, and obtained the gift of miracles.

  • Who can tell of the gratitude and gladness that sprang up in this woman's heart in answer to earnest prayer on her behalf, for her recovery which God was graciously pleased to bestow?

  • Many mothers are, through their children, interested in religion, and come gladly to the mothers' meetings, and my earnest prayer is that the Lord will help me in the future as He has done in the past.

  • But the idea of their being driven away from the land of Zion pained their very souls, and they desired of God, by earnest prayer, to return with songs of everlasting joy, as said Isaiah, the prophet.

  • May God grant us to know more fully the true place and value of simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and of earnest prayer in the Holy Ghost.

  • But it would not be the less refreshing because they were intensely interested in the conversion of souls, and in earnest prayer to God in the matter.

  • Such persons have never known what it was to deny themselves a single meal, or to spend an hour in real, earnest prayer, or to open their hand, in true benevolence, to meet the wants of the poor.

  • After the ceremony Chaplain Eaton offered an earnest prayer; all kneeling.

  • A few days of earnest prayer determined me to go to Louisville jail with a trunk of bed clothes and under flannels.

  • After making it a subject of earnest prayer, I became settled as to the course to pursue, and concluded to unburden my heavy heart to my parents as I had done, to my beloved companion, which I did after our Sabbath meeting.

  • And as he watched for final victory He saw that light flash through the silent cave, And heard the Buddha breathe that earnest prayer, And fled amazed, nor dared to look behind.

  • All gave consent, and forth there rose no lack Of earnest prayer to Him who safely brought them back.

  • For this I urge an earnest prayer To God who makes my joys increase.

  • I dare rest upon Thy word; therefore my earnest prayer is, that he may be a man of God.

  • But knowing the good that is done on the earth, the Lord doeth it, I have made it matter of earnest prayer, for she is much laid upon my mind.

  • After committing herself to God in earnest prayer, she retired to rest with the conviction, that she was the greatest sinner in the world; but the next morning, which was the holy Sabbath, broke upon her with healing in its wings.


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