My brother if pastors begins to explicitly expound the word of God,His principles and most especially the book of revelation and the destiny of deprave humanity,unbelievers will see and par-adventure some will repent,you don't pray prosperity upon a sinner,unbelievers,what are you doing? Telling them they are bless in gross sinful and sinking state! Wao this is stupidity,and demeaning the value of God's word and our high calling.
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The man who can get believers to praying would under God, usher in the great revival the world has ever known.
God’s problem today is not Communism nor yet Rommanism, nor Liberalism nor Modernism. God’s problem is dead Fundamentalism.
God never intend His church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety, He intend it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts.
In terms of doctrine, we have enough and to spare, while a sick, sad, sin-sodden, sex-soaked world perishes with hunger.
Years ago, a minister put this sign outside of his church ‘This church will have either a revival or a funeral’. With such despair, God is well pleased, though hell is despondent. This sounds like madness, well, a sober church never does any good. At this hour, we need men drunk with the Holy Ghost. Has God excelled Himself? Were Wesley, Whitefield, Finney, Hudson, Taylor special editions of ministers? Never my preacher brethren, these days, we are more fund of traveling than travailing, hence, no births.
Right now, God is preparing His Elijah's for the last great earthly offensive against militant godless, (whether political or wearing a mask of religion). The last great outpouring of revival, Holy Ghost born and operated, will be new wine bursting the skins of dried-up sectarianism. Hallelujah!
In Ezekiel 37, Ezekiel did not mistake commotion for creation, nor action for unction, nor rattle for revival.
My fellow brethren, do we have a pain in our hearts for perishing men? Does the toil of 85 or more dying without Christ every minute turn our moisture into drought, take away our garments of praise, or give us the spirit of heaviness.
If we decide to save our lives, we not only loose them, but we loose other people too.
These men cry for souls, mourn for sins, Jeremiah cried: ‘Oh that my head were waters’ while the psalmist says ‘rivers run down my eyes continually’
Dear brethren, our eyes are dry because our hearts are dry. We leave in a day when we can have piety without pity.
There was a time when a couple of struggling Salvation Army officers wrote to William Booth telling him they tried every way to get a move and failed, he sent this terse reply, ‘try tears’, they did, and they had revival.
A repeated cry of David Livingstone was ‘Lord when will the wounds of this world’s sins e healed’? But are we grief-stricken in prayers? Do we soak our pillows as John Welch did, in our soul travail?
Oh that believers will become eternity conscious!
If we could live every moment of every day under the eye of God
If we did every act in the light of the Judgment Seat,
If we sold every article in the light of the Judgment Seat,
If we pray every prayer in the light of the Judgment Seat
If we tithed all our possession in the light of the Judgment Seat
If we treat our fellow Christians in the light of the Judgment Seat
If we preachers prepared every sermon with one eye on damned humanity and the other on the Judgment Seat, then we will have a Holy Ghost revival that would shake this earth and that in no time at all, would liberate millions of precious souls.
This generation have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers and yet what sin! Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and they forget them. How are we going to come out of all this?
Revival tarry because evangelism is so highly commercialized, the tithes of widows and of the poor are spent in luxury-living by many evangelists.
Revival tarries because of cheapening the gospel.
Revival tarries because of carelessness at the altar, too little time is spent with those souls who come to do eternal business. The evangelist is happy seeing his friends and while sinners groan at the altar, he is drinking in the rich cream of men’s praises.
Wesley feared neither men nor devils. If Whitefield was burlesqued on the English stage in the basest way, and if in the New Testament Christians were stoned, suffered every ignominy, how is it then since sins and sinners have not changed, that we preachers no longer raise the wrath of hell? Why are we so icily regular, so splendidly null We can have riot without revival but in the light of the Bible and church history, where can we have revival without riots?
Revival tarries because we lack urgency in prayer. We are substituting propaganda for propagation. How insane! We have not yet resisted unto blood in prayer; nay, we do not even get a sweat on our souls as Luther put it we pray with a ‘take it or leave it’ attitude, we pray chance prayers; we offer that which cost us nothing! We have not even ‘strong desire’, we rather have fitful, moody, and spasmodic.
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