Hymn Revival

5 d

WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND
Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758 (Former Vice President of the United States)
What is it in your own minds which makes you think it is safe for you
to delay turning to God? What is it that encourages you to run such a venture as you do by delaying this necessary work? Is it that you hope there is no such state as heaven or hell, and have a suspicion that there is no God? Is It this that makes you secure? Or is it that you are not much afraid but that you shall have opportunity enough a great while hence to mind such things? Is it an intention of a future seeking a more convenient season? And are you persuaded that God will hearken to you then, after you shall have so long turned a deaf ear to his commands and gracious? Are you encouraged to commit sin, because you hope to repent of it? Are you encouraged by the mercy of God to be his enemies? And do you resolve still to provoke him to anger, because you think he is easily pacified? Or do you think that your conversion is in your own power, and that you can turn to God when you please? Is it because you have been born of godly parents that you are so secure? Or do you imagine that you are in a fair way to be converted? Do you think that what you have done in religion will engage God to pity you, and that he never can have the heart to condemn one who has lived in so orderly a manner? Or do you think that you are indeed converted already? And doth that encourage you to take a liberty in sinning? Or are you secure, because you are so stupid as to think nothing about these things? Do you let these concerns wholly alone, and scarcely ever think at all how it will be with you after you are dead? Certainly it must be one or more of these things which keeps you in your security, and encourages you to go on in sin. Examine, therefore, and see which of them it is.

1 w

STRANGLEHOLD
BILLY SUNDAY 1862-1935
“I tell you that God is pretty wise to who are going to Hell and who are going to Heaven – The sooner you get that through your head and don't try to sidestep Jesus, the sooner the devil will let go the stranglehold he has upon most of you.”

3 w

BLOOD & TESTIMONY
Derek Prince 1915-2003
“In an earthly army a soldier who is enlisted is provided with appropriate weapons, and then he receives training to make him proficient in their use. It is imperative for us, as soldiers in the Lord’s end-time army, that we, too, become proficient in the use of the weapons that God has provided: the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. We must learn how to testify appropriately concerning each provision made for us through the blood of Jesus.”

3 w

STAY DELIVERED
Derek Prince 1915-2003
“I learned that it’s one thing to be delivered; it’s another
thing altogether to stay delivered. God began to show me that He had done His part, and now I had to do my part. He had set my mind free from this demonic pressure. Now it was up to me to re-educate my mind—to cultivate a totally different outlook and way of thinking.
Before I was delivered, I was not able to do it. After I was delivered, it was my responsibility to do it. God had done His part in delivering me, but I had to do my part in maintaining my deliverance. I believe this is true in almost any realm in which God intervenes on your behalf—salvation, healing, deliverance. God does His part and then it’s up to you to do your part. Your part is to maintain—to hold on to what God has given you.”

3 w

UNSCRIPTURAL LOVE
Derek Prince 1915-2003
“I agree that love is the greatest thing. But the trouble is that people are not always clear about the nature of love as it is described in the New Testament. First of all, love in us is expressed by obedience to the Lord. Any kind of love that does not result in obedience is unscriptural love.”