The Wonders of Prayer

About this eBook

Editor

Whittle, D. W. (Daniel Webster), 1840-1901

Title

The wonders of prayer : A record of well authenticated and wonderful answers to prayer

Credits

Produced by John Hagerson, Kevin Handy and PG Distributed Proofreaders

Language

English

LoC Class

BV: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Practical theology, Worship

Subject

Prayer

Category

Text

eBook-No.

11553

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11553

Release Date

March 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FACTS STRANGER THAN FICTION
2. 2.The Wonders of Prayer: — A Record Of Well Authenticated And Wonderful — Answers To Prayer. — New Edition. — Revised By D.W. Whittle. — 1885 — Introduction To First Edition. — Discerning Prayer.
3. 3.Introductory. — By D.W. Whittle.
4. 4.John 3: 27. — His Covenant. — Answers To Prayer — A Wonderful Answer to Prayer and Proof of the Existence of the Holy Spirit. — The Prayer Of Faith. — Almost A Bankrupt. — "He Could Not Flee from the Power of the Holy Spirit." — Life Brought Back Again in the Midst of Death. — Saved From The Hands Of A Desperado. — The Prayer of a Missionary in Mexico Answered.--Saved from Banditti. — An Infidel's Life Spared A Few Days. — Remarkable Preservation from Brain Difficulties. — Little George's Prayer. — A Prayer For A Horse. — A Prayer For A Wife. — Church Troubles Quelled. — A Minister's Supplies Fall Short. — A Prayer For A Servant. — Healing. — That $18.75. — God Sent The Bag Of Flour. — Incidents from the Experience of a City Missionary.--A Prayer for Supper Answered. — Relief From A Creditor's Demands. — Two Hundred Dollars Needed and Given at the Last Moment. — How The Lord Repaid A Generous Gift. — The Astonished Giver. — All Saved. — "The Lord Woke Me Up in Time to Save My Clothes." — The Lord Takes Away the Custom of a Liquor Saloon. — Help In Time Of Need. — Cast Out Into The Street, Yet Not Forsaken. — A Persecutor Punished by the Lord. — How God Answered My Prayer for $90. — From Wealth, To Poverty. — A Prayer For Fifty Dollars. — Concurrent Testimony of the Value of Prayer. — A Worldly Man Surrenders. — A Servant's Prayer For A Good Home. — "Before They Call I Will Answer."--A Pastor Prays for Decision as to Good Choices. — A Family Pray For A Good Servant. — A Recovery From A Death-Bed. — A Poor Student Prays For Money. — "I Can't Stop To Pray." — Remarkable Healing Of A Child. — God Paid The Rent.--Answer To Prayer. — He Forgetteth Not The Cry Of The Humble. — Incidents in the Life of an Invalid.--How God cares and comforts in small things. — Giving Her Last Money To The Lord. — Money Wanted To Pay Railroad Fare. — Prayer Saves The Life Of A Little Child. — The Lost Thimble. — A Prayer for $25. — Praying For Others. — A Visit To Friends. — Praying For A New Hat. — Praying For A Sewing Machine. — Money For Postage. — Praying For A Bible. — A Spring Mattress. — The Healing Of Mary Theobald. — How Prayer Helped him to Keep the Pledge. — One Who Refused The Holy Spirit. — The Praying Shoe-Maker. — How the Lord Controls even the Locomotive and the Railroad Train. — Another Instance of Superhuman Control of the Locomotive, in Answer to Prayer. — Another Wonderful Record Of $25. — Mr. Spurgeon's Cow. — "Trust In The Lord." — Exactly Eighty Dollars.--"They are Safe that Trust in Thee." — A Prayer For Four Dollars. — "Aunt Sally's" Faith. — God Careth For You. — A Prayer Not Answered. — Trust In The Lord. — The Necessity of Asking God's Blessing Every Day, upon Your Daily Work. Every Work, however Good, Needs Special, Specific, Daily Prayer for its Prosperity. — Prayer Found The Remedy For The Disease. — Prayer Instantaneously Answered for Conversion. — Help For The Shipwrecked. — Samuel Harris's Lawsuit, and How the Lord Settled it for Him. — A Wagon-Load Of Food. — "God's Raven." — How the Stolen Sleigh was Returned by a Thief. — "None Of The Lord's Children Left Desolate." — The New Coat That Fitted Exactly. — Praying to Stop the Wind and the Sailing of a Vessel. — Insanity Cured And Suicide Prevented. — Answers To Prayer. — Bishop Simpson's Recovery. — The Seven Letters. — The Lord Did Not Forget The Potatoes. — The Prayer In The Woods. — The Lord Can Do It. — Answer to Prayer in all the Little Temporal Anxieties of Life — Bread To The Hungry. — No "Ifs." — The Horse Is His. — All Our Needs. — He Healeth The Sick. — A Powerful Dream. — Ask And Ye Shall Receive. — Casting All Your Care On Him. — In Everything Make Known Your Wants. — The Great Physician. — Shall Save The Sick. — All-Sufficient For All Need. — A Very Present Help In Trouble. — He Shall Direct Thy Paths — How the Lord is Constantly Caring for His Trusting Poor. — A Prayer For Bread. — The Daughter's Prayer. — The Lord Will Provide. — A Prayer For A Load Of Wood. — A Refractory Man Compelled to Pay a Debt. — A Hurricane Passes Around A Ship. — Recovery From Spinal Disease. — Prayer For A Pair Of Boots. — Under Garments In Answer To Prayer. — Unexpected Relief. — That Beautiful Christmas Gift. How the Lord Used it. — The Widow's Wood and Flour.--The Unbelieving Ones Made Speechless. — A Pair of Shoes.--The Lord's Rebuke to those who "Didn't Believe." — The Lame Healed. — The Wonderful Cure Of Mrs. Sherman. — Dr. Newman Hall's Testimonies to the Value of Prayer. — A Prayer For Thirty Pounds. — Recovery From Dangerous Illness. — A Sunday School Teacher In Distress. — Rescued In Peril. — A Physical Impediment Removed. — Restoration From Death. — The Help Of The Lord In Little Things. — A Boy's Faith In Prayer — A Prayer For Five Dollars. — Go To The Post-Office. — The Widow's Tree — The Lord Paid His Interest. — Will the Lord Deliver from Bad Habits of Tobacco, Rum, Liquor, Licentiousness, etc., in Answer to Prayer. — Cured Of Tobacco Appetite. — Bad Habits Wholly Overcome. — Was It Instantaneous? — The Lord Delivers From Bodily Sins. — Another Deliverance. — Not Your Own Strength Can Break the Habit. — A Double Cure. — A Special Word to all Seeking to Escape Evil Ways. — Help at the Very Last Moment. Faith Rewarded. — Spinal Disease Cured. — An Old Man's Prayer. — The Mysterious Leadings Of Providence. — Life Spared For Two Weeks. — A Missionary's Experience In Mexico. — The Greatest Of Physicians. — How The Lord Paid Back The $5. — Praying For Money For A Journey. — Employment Found. — A Barrel Of Flour. — Wonderful Ways of the Lord in Guiding His People. — Wonderful Conversion Of A Roman Catholic. — Remarkable Preservation of Life from Lightning in Answer to Prayer. — God Never Failed Her. — His Mother's Prayer. — The Heart Of Stone Relents. — A Discouraged One Revived. — The Prisoner Loosed. — Praying for Tea. — Giving Her Last Dollar To The Lord. — The Danish Girl's Blessing. — The Swedish Girl Blessed. — Saved From Drowning. — The Widow In "Want". — The Sewing Girl Relieved Just In Time. — Praying For A Home. — How Much Good Two Dollars Did. — Saved From Starvation. — God With Us. — A Vessel Saved. — A Remarkable Prayer Concerning a Remarkable Text. — How She Learned To Love The Bible. — The Blind Restored To Sight. — The Widow's Shoes. — A Remarkable Dream. — "You Must Not Go." — Evil Averted. — How a Poor Little Cripple Converted a Village. — Please God, Give Us A Home. — "Of Course He Will." — Striking Answer. — A Remarkable Case. — A Little Girl's Beautiful Faith. — The Lord Helps to Pay Debts. — Praying for a Lost Pocket-Book. — Lives Of Faith And Trust — An Extraordinary Life of Faith and Trust. — The Consumptive's Home. — A Bad Debt Paid. — Help In Need. — Praying For Stoves. — Praying For A Furnace. — The Lord's Return for Giving unto the Poor. — A Watch given to the Lord--How the Lord returns a better one. — The Lord Gave Double what was Asked for. — Blessings Amid Calamities. — A Remarkable Promise. — A Woman Delivered from the Habit of Drinking. — Prayer For Purchasers. — Asking For Large Gifts. — A Severe Tumor Healed. — Faith Cured Her. — Cured Of Cancer. — Cured Of Neuralgia. — Cured Of Spine Disease. — An Injured Leg Restored to Proper Length. — A Lost Voice Regained. — Cured Of St. Vitas' Dance. — Hip Disease Cured. — A Bad Debt Paid. — Consumption Instantly Healed. — Cured Of Catarrh. — A Mother's Faith--The Life of Beate Paulus. — The Persecutor's Fate. — The Captain And The Quadrant. — The Faith Of Dorothea Trudel. — Remarkable Cures. — Cured Of The Small-Pox. — Cured Of Severe Fits. — Buying A Cow. — A Lady Cured, who had been rejected from an Asylum. — The Soul Cured As Well As The Body. — Prayer, Not Mesmerism. — Help In Pecuniary Affairs. — The Faith Life Of Mr. Zeller. — The Blind Restored To Sight. — The Bank Of Faith. God The Guardian Of The Poor. — The Life Of His Child Saved. — God Sent Supplies. — The God who Supplied Elijah by a Raven Supplied me with Fish. — God Takes Away The Snow. — Sight Restored. — Praying For Tea. — The Lord Paid His Debt. — The Faith Of Little Children.
5. 5.HOW GOD HONORS THEIR TRUST, AND ANSWERS THEIR PRAYERS. — God Keeps Hold Of The Other Hand. — A Child whose Life was Saved in Answer to Prayer--by his own Prayer the Life of his Sister is Saved. — Trusting In God's Promises. — The Faith Of A Little Child. — The Wanderer Found. — Are You There. — God Knows The Bottom Of The Barrel. — God's Care for Little Children in Little Wants. — A Child's Prayer For Papa. — A Little Quaker Boy's Prayer right out in Meeting. — What The Little Children May Do. — The Unbelieving Father led to go to Church. — A Child's Prayer For Relief — God's Care over His People--The Praying Widow — God Saved A Family Mercifully. — A Child's Faith In The Lord's Prayer. — A Child Preserved From Wolves. — Jesus Cured Me. — The Little Boy who Wanted His Sister to Read the Bible. — Nettie's Daily Bread. — The Brother's Prayer. — Light Given To A Blind Child. — Asking The Lord to Help Him in his Lessons. — Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread. — God Will Take Care Of Me. — Laura Healed. — A Little Slave's Faith. — A Good Reason For Praying. — My Heart Talked. — Why, Sir, I Begged. — A Little Child's Prayer For Healing. — The Blessedness Of Giving
6. 6.God Loveth A Cheerful Giver. — How the Lord Blesses Those "Who Give Liberally to His Cause. — Dividing With God. — Prosperity And Liberality. — The Deacon's Singing School. — It Pays To Give To The Lord. — Another Example Of Beneficence. — Commendable Examples. — System In Giving. — Lending To The Lord. — A Steward Of His Lord's Bounty. — The Five-Dollar Gold Piece. — A New Year's Incident. — Feneberg's Loan To The Lord. — Compound Interest. — The Brown Towel. — Giving Blessed. — Lending To The Lord. — The Liberal Farmer. — Experience Of A Saddler. — Jacob Not Blessed Until He Became A Liberal Giver. — The Lord's Insurance Money. — Give And It Shall Be Given. — "Lending To The Lord." — The Praying Shoe-Maker. — The History And Business Successes Of Liberal Givers. — Faith In God's Liberality. — He Gave His Last $5 To The Lord.
7. 7.--Pres. Edwards.
8. 8.--Tennyson. — Prayers Answered
9. 9.In Business and Social Anxieties. — Help In Paying A Mortgage. — A Remarkable Prayer And Its Answer. — Recovery From Insanity. — Seeking Direction In Business. — Seeking Guidance Of The Lord. — Saved From Cholera. — The Aid of the Lord in Business and Social Prosperity. The Wonderful Deliverance of Daniel Loest. — Spurgeon's Prayer For Money. — The Prayer Of Latimer. — A Mother's Prayers Answered. — How The Lord Rescued Him. — Jesus Keeps Me From Drinking. — Mr. Moody's Faith, in Prayer. A Remarkable Answer. — The Wonders Of A Single Prayer. — The Tavern Keeper Overcome. — Victories over Bad Habits, Tobacco, Opium, etc. — Mrs. Whitney's Cure in Answer to Prayer. — President Finney's Prayer For Rain. — Luther's Mighty Prayer And Prophecy. — John Knox And His Prophetical Prayer. — Melancthon's Life saved from Death in Answer to Luther's Prayer. — The Wonderful Power of Faith and Trust in the Lord to deliver wholly from Bad Habits. — Recovery From Paralysis. — The Stolen Bonds Returned. — Mr. Moody's Answers To Prayers. — No Flour in the House--In the days of Famine, his Soul shall be Satisfied. — Persevering Prayer. — Noah's Prayer.--He Did Not Get Discouraged. — Samuel Hick's Prayer For Rain. — Praying For The Wind To Come. — Snails In The Ark. — He Gave All The Money He Had. — "The Lord Will Provide." — Abraham Lincoln's Faith In Prayer. — Extraordinary Care of the Lord in Answer to Prayer. — A Remarkable Decision By A Jury. — That Wonderful $25. Another Evidence of the Ever-Present Spirit of God. — Why He Failed. — How The Lord
10. 10.Controls the Winds and the Waves — John Easter's Prayer. — The Hushed Tempest. — Praying In Fair Weather. — The Rescue from the Ville du Havre, and the Loch Earn. — The Storm Made Calm. — No Fear Of Thunder. — The Prayer of the Pilgrims for Rain Answered. — The Enemies Of A God Fearing Nation. — Changing The Course One Point. — The Fulton St. Prayer Meeting.
11. 11.ANSWERS TO PRAYER FROM ITS HISTORY, RECORDS AND CORRESPONDENCE. — Saved From A Life Of Degradation. — Recovery Of An Invalid. — Relief In Business. — A Daughter Saved from Marriage with a Corrupt Man. — A Skeptic Overpowered. — Saved From Death. — An Intemperate Young Man Reclaimed. — The Conversion Of Intimate Friends. — Raised up from Death's Door. — The Desire Of The Heart Fulfilled. — A Poor Old Sick Lady Restored. — A New Birth. — A Church Saved From Strife. — Reason Restored. — The Appetite for Strong Drink Taken Away. — Spiritual Strength. — Healing Of Soul And Body. — An Intemperate Husband Saved by Prayer. — Religion Lost, Religion Regained. — Drunkards Reformed. — A Hopeless Case. — A Harvest Of Conversions. — A Family Made Happy. — The Power Of The Holy Spirit — Hearts Made Glad. — Given Up by Man, but Rescued by the Great Physician. — The Story of a Wayward Life, Saved by Prayer. — A Wonderful Cure. — Given Up. — Chains Broken At Last. — Better Than We Expected. — Prayer Answered For Employment. — Found Employment. — An Old Lady Saved From Little Annoyances. — Insanity Dispelled. — Reclaimed. — Restored To Health. — Temptations Removed. — The Heart of a Clergyman Turned from Thoughts of Ambition. — A Grateful Tribute. — Was A Perfect Slave To Liquor. — Always Answered. — Cured Of Epilepsy. — Almost Lost. — A Situation Obtained By Prayer. — A Bountiful Blessing. — Saved From The Company Of A Bad Lover. — Away From Home, But Not Away From God. — God Always Answers Believing Prayer. — The Hardest Heart Yields At Last. — Up From The Lowest Depths. — Saved And Honored. — Almost Persuaded. — Answered The Same Day. — Oh, How Precious. — Praying For A Pastor. — A Telegram Of Prayer. — He Did not Keep His Promise, but God Did. — A Double Prayer Answered. — How The Lord Blessed An Old Advertisement. — Hating The Accursed Drink. — A Drunkard For Thirty Years. — The Hopeless One Brought Home. — "No Man can pluck them out of my Father's Hand." — Answer To Prayer In Temporal Matters. — The Lord Proved True. — A Little Boy's Question. — A Little Girl's Question. — God Cared For Me. — The Blind Can See.

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