Theme: Calling
To-day is the golden opportunity, to-morrow will be the silver season.
I had rather bless the soul of the poorest crossing-sweeper, or rag-gatherer, than please a prince of the blood, and fail to convert him to God.
My soul, you are made for God, woe be to you if you stop short in anything short of Him!
I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service,
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.”
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
If we are going to be successful, we have got to take our stand for God, and let the world and everyone know we are on the Lord’s side.
If I tell the world about Jesus, then will He tell the Father about me.
Remember, O soul, it may be now or never with you. Let it be NOW; it would be horrible that it should be never.
I should desire to have my Lord well spoken of, and honored, howbeit He should make nothing of me but a bridge over a water.
A different exercise of devotion is required of each—the noble, the artisan, the servant, the prince, the maiden and the wife; and furthermore such practice must be modified according to the strength, the calling, and the duties of each individual.
Men, only men, can carry out this work. This humanness, this inwardness, of the Kingdom is one reason why some scarcely see that it exists at all.
His immediate work was to enlist men in His enterprise, to rally them into a great company or Society for the carrying out of His plans.
None but praying leaders can have praying followers. Praying apostles will beget praying saints. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews.
This unction is the art of preaching. The preacher who never had this unction never had the art of preaching. The preacher who has lost this unction has lost the art of preaching. This unction vitalizes God’s revealed truth, makes it living and life-giving.
To make Cities—that is what we are here for. To make good Cities—that is for the present hour the main work of Christianity. For the City is strategic.
Winning souls is converting men.
God neither chose them nor called them because they were holy, but he called them that they might be holy.
God has given me two little children, and ever since I can remember I have directed them to Christ, and I would rather they carried this message to Jesus--that I had tried all my life to lead them to Him--than have all the crowns of the earth; and I would rather lead them to Jesus than give them the wealth of the world.
With all my weakness I had a great desire to live wholly for God.
The preacher must, by prayer, put God in the sermon. The preacher must, by prayer, move God toward the people before he can move the people to God by his words. The preacher must have had audience and ready access to God before he can have access to the people.
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