“Man can no more organize revival than he can dictate to the wind.” —Author Unknown “How careful we should be lest we misrepresent a real work of grace because of some things which occasionally may accompany it! When Whitefield was once preaching in Boston, the place was so packed that the gallery was thought to...
We have lost the eternal youthfulness of Christianity and have aged into calculating manhood. We seldom pray in earnest for the extraordinary, the limitless, and the glorious. We seldom pray with any confidence, for any good to the realization of which we cannot imagine away. And yet, we suppose ourselves to believe in an Infinite...
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 3:13-14) FORGETTING THE PAST. Paul was not only...
“Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives” (1 Pet. 3:1). This final chapter is for a special group of ladies: wives with unsaved husbands. Over the years, I have met scores...
A prayer burden is a spiritual concern on the heart of God that is imparted by the Holy Spirit to someone whose intercession the Holy Spirit desires to use. Jesus has been interceding for this need, and now the Spirit needs you to join with the intercession of Jesus. It is a specially sacred level...
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it” (Ephesians 5:25). As a father, I would go to any length to ensure my children’s stability and safeguard their wellbeing, as I am sure almost every other dad would happily do. Perhaps the most significant instrument at a father’s...