UNTIL WE CHRISTIANS
Charles Finney 1792-1875
"Until the church is sanctified, the world cannot be converted. Until Christians can testify with their lips and lives, it cannot be expected that the truth will take effect.”
UNTIL WE CHRISTIANS
Charles Finney 1792-1875
"Until the church is sanctified, the world cannot be converted. Until Christians can testify with their lips and lives, it cannot be expected that the truth will take effect.”
LIVE A HOLY LIFE
Charles Finney 1792-1875
"No man has any right to hope unless he is really committed to holiness and
in all honesty and earnestness intends to live so. If he does not intend to live
a holy life, let him know that he is not in the way to heaven. If he is in his sins and
indulges himself in sinning, by what right or reason can he suppose himself traveling towards the abodes of infinite purity? If he hopes for heaven at the end of such
a life, he is egregiously self-deceived.”
WAIT FOR IT
Dwight L. Moody 1837-1899
“There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing his time after all. So we are not going to lose anything if we tarry till we get this power. That is the object of true service, to wait on God, to tarry till we receive this power for witness-bearing.”
BURN EVERYTHING
Dwight L. Moody 1837-1899
“I tell you when the Spirit of God is on us the world looks very empty; the world has a very small hold upon us, and we begin to let go our hold of it. When the Spirit of God is on us we will just let go the things of time and lay hold of things eternal. This is the Church's need today; we want the Spirit to come in mighty power, and consume all the vile dross there is in us. Oh! that the Spirit of fire may come down and burn everything in us that is contrary to God's blessed Word and Will.”
WRESTLE NOT
Leonard Ravenhill 1907-1994
Prayer is battle. Could it be that in our churches the right slogan over the door of most of our prayer rooms would be "We Wrestle Not"? I often see listed in churches names of athletes who will play ball of some kind, but I would like to see these "muscle men" operating where strength really counts - that is, in the place of prayer. Prayer taxes even the physical frame; prayer wears on the nerves; prayer involves the whole man. Prayer must have priority. Prayer must be our bolt to lock up the night, our key to open the day. Prayer is power. Prayer is wealth. Prayer is health of the soul.