Evangelism

May 28, 2012

The prayer that prevails with God is the prayer into which we throw our whole heart, the prayer of intense earnestness; and it is the Holy Spirit who inspires us to that intense earnestness in prayer. Oh, how cold and formal we are in many of our prayers. How little intense longing there is in our souls to obtain the thing that we ask. We pray even for the salvation of the lost with much indifference, though we ought to realize that if our prayers are not heard they are going to spend eternity in hell. But men and women whose prayer life is under the control of the Holy Spirit, pray with intense earnestness; they cry mightily to God; there is a great burden of prayer in their hearts; they pray sometimes with groanings which cannot be uttered.

– RA Torrey –

May 24, 2012

Does your one goal, one drive, all of your plans day and night focus on how to redeem your world? What you cry about, what upsets you, your tiredness, is it all focused on the one thing that beats in the heart of God? Do you see every person with the question of how you can be a redemptive force in their lives? Is every situation of your life viewed with a focus on redemption for the world? May I boldly say that if this is not true for you, you have missed the impact of the Gospel of Matthew and especially this initial call to His disciples [Matthew 4.19].

– Stephen Manley –
from his chapter “A Call to Continuity” in Commentary on Matthew 3-4

May 17, 2012

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

– CS Lewis –

April 28, 2012

Others before me have gone  much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame.

– AW Tozer –
from Pursuit of God 

April 20, 2012

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

– Jim Elliot –

April 8, 2012

Not somehow – but triumphantly!

– V. Raymond Edman –
in They Found the Secret, page 11

March 27, 2012

The secret of the success of the Apostles lay not in what they did and said, but in the presence of Christ in them and with them. They saw with the eyes of Christ, felt with His heart, and worked with His energies. They were nothing; Christ was everything. Christ was living, breathing, and triumphing in their personal lives. Their entire nature being replete with His life, their spirits bathed in His light, and their souls kindled with the fires of His love, they moved in the midst of men as embodiments of supernatural power… Brethren, this is what we must be, if this mighty Empire (China) is to be moved through us. But to be this, the throne of grace must be our refuge, the secret place of the Most High must be our daily and hourly habitation.

– Griffith John –

March 22, 2012

We shall not get revival by filling our churches with men, but by getting the men who already come to our churches filled with God.

– Duncan Campbell –

March 17, 2012

I started at the bottom and loved just one; and if you love one, you can love many; and if many, you can love all.

– Rees Howells –
from Rees Howells Intercessor, 47