TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION -- 9
AUTHOR’S PREFACE -- 11
PART ONE: THE NATURE OF PRAYER
1. A PRAYER-HEARING GOD -- 17
(1) It is God’s nature to hear and answer prayer.
(2) It is impossible to come to God or to please Him without believing that He is a prayer-hearing and a prayer-answering God.
(3) Every attribute of God is implied in the fact that He hears and answers prayer.
(4) Nature itself points to a benevolent God who hears and answers prayer.
2. WHY PRAY? -- 28
(1) Because God insistently commands it in the Bible.
(2) Because prayer is God’s appointed way for Christians to get things.
(3) Because prayer is God’s way for Christians to have fullness of joy.
(4) Because prayer is the way out of all trouble, the cure for all worry and anxious care.
(5) Because answered prayer is the only unanswerable argument against skepticism, unbelief, modernism and infidelity.
(6) Because prayer is the only way to have the power of the Holy Spirit for God’s work.
(7) Because “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
3. PRAYER IS ASKING -- 46
(1) Prayer is not praise, adoration, meditation, humiliation nor confession, but asking. (2) Bible prayers were asking.
(3) Hypocrisy is so-called praying that does not ask for something.
4. THE ANSWER TO PRAYER IS RECEIVING -- 56
(1) The Scriptures teach that an answer to prayer і getting what you asked for.
(2) How to pray in the will of God for a “yes” answer.
PART TWO: WHAT TO PRAY FOR
5. PRAYING FOR DAILY BREAD -- 69
(1) How God gives food, clothes, money, job, other material blessings in answer to prayer. (2)Personal testimony of prayers answered for material blessings.
6. ASKING BREAD FOR SINNERS -- 79
(1) “Lord, teach us to pray.” (2) Grade school praying: “The Lord’s Prayer.” (3) Bread for others Christ’s college course in prayer. (4) Confession before importunity. (5) Importunity or praying through for bread for sinners. (6) God does not always mean “No” when He says “No” (7) Don’t be afraid to ask; God will not give bad gifts. (8) Asking for the Holy Spirit.
7. PRAYING FOR HEALING -- 99
(1) Sickness is a proper subject of prayer. (2) Prayer for the sick is proper during this age.(3) prayer of faith shall save the sick.” (4) Is healing in the atonement?
8. PRAYING FOR HEALING, Continued -- 112
(1) It is not always God’s will to heal. (2) But it usually God’s will to heal in answer to prayer (3) Should Christians use doctors and medicine? (4) hinders healing: should be confessed and forsaken.(5) A personal testimony of healing in answer to prayer.
9. PRAY FOR ANYTHING AND EVERYTIHNG YOU WANT -- 129
(1) Christians invited to ask for literally anything want. (2) It is not wrong to ask it if it is not wring to want it. (3) Philippians 4:6 says pray about “everything.” (4) Open the door of every closet in your heart to God!
PART THREE: HOW TO PRAY
10. PRAYING IN THE WILL OF GOD -- 137
(1) Jesus in Gethsemane our example. (2) Assurance
in prayer. (3) Asking in Jesus’ name. (4) Faith comes when praying in the will of God.
11. DEFINITE PRAYING -- 145
(1) The Bible teaches that prayer should be definite, explicit requests. (2) What is wrong with indefinite prayer. (3) How to be definite in prayer.
12. “HAVE FAITH IN GOD” -- 159
(1) The great importance of faith. (2) What is faith?
(3) How to exercise faith and grow greater faith in God.
13. JUST PRAY -- 181
All conditions of prayer mentioned in the Bible are simply extra encouragements and opportunities to pray; all fulfilled in asking. (1) God’s promises mean exactly what they say. (2) Not extra “conditions,” but additional promises. (3) Asking really fulfills all other specific conditions of prayer, (a) Asking in faith, (b) Asking according to His will, (c) Asking in Jesus’ name, (d) Where two are agreed in asking.
(e) Persistence in prayer, (f) What about hindrances to prayer?
PART FOUR: PERSISTENCE IN PRAYER
14. PRAYING THROUGH -- 199
(1) Sinners never need to pray through to be saved. Trusting Christ gets instant salvation without begging. (2) Bible proof that a sinner need never pray through to be saved. (3) Bible examples of people saved instantly without “praying through.” (4) But Christians ought often to “pray through” with long continued supplications and waiting on God until God answers their prayers.
15. WHY FAST AND PRAY? -- 215
(1) What is fasting and prayer? (2) Things we can
get by fasting and prayer. (3) Revival brought by prayer and fasting.
16. BIG PRAYERS TO AN ALMIGHTY GOD -- 233
(1) God invites and commands us to ask big things.
(2) Bible examples of prayers demanding great things from God. (3) The blessings of big prayers.
17. DOES GOD WORK MIRACLES TODAY? -- 254
(1) The Bible certainly promises miracles in answer
to prayer and faith. (2) Christianity, a miracle religion. (3) Miracles of the Bible are given as examples for US.
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18.MIRACLES TODAY, Continued -- 268
(1) Some objections answered. (2) Many authenticated miracles in modem times.
PART SIX: SIN AND PRAYER
19. HINDRANCES TO PRAYER -- 281
Daily, regular answer to prayer should be normal for all Christians. (1) Wrong relationship of wives to husbands and of husbands to wives hinders prayer. (2) Prayers blocked by wrongs unnghted debts unpaid, offended brothers unreconciled. (3) Unforgiveness grieves God and hinders prayers.
20. HINDRANCES TO PRAYER, Continued -- 301
(1) Covetousness puts one under a curse, hrnde s praver. (2) Self-will, rebellion, disobedience hinder prayer. (3) A disinclination or indifference toward the Bible makes prayer an abomination to God!
(4) Any unconfessed, unlamented, unrepented sin grieves God and hinders the prayers of His children.
(5) How to get the hindrances removed.
21. THE SIN OF PRAYERLESSNESS -- 314
(1) Proof that prayerlessness is a sin. (2) The sad results of prayerlessness. (3) What the sin of prayer-lessness shows about our wicked hearts. (4) How to overcome the sin of prayerlessness.

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