The average man is not going to be impressed by our publicity, our posters or our programs, but let there be a demonstration of the supernatural in the realm of religion, and at once man is arrested.
– Duncan Campbell –
Power
The Gift of Pentecost – Samuel Chadwick
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul’s safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.
– Samuel Chadwick –
Do you believe in the Holy Spirit? – Charles Spurgeon
My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?… Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?
– Charles Spurgeon –
Seeking God’s Mind – Watchman Nee
[Don’t] spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God’s mind, and on waiting for the power from above.
– Watchman Nee –
Powerful on your knees – Corrie ten Boom
Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.
– Corrie ten Boom –
Power and Life – David Wilkerson
When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That’s what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.
– David Wilkerson –
The testimony of the Church – Charles Spurgeon
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
– Charles Spurgeon –
A baptism of love and power – Winkie Pratney
The Holy Spirit is the gift of the Risen Christ. His anointing filling, empowering work is a baptism of love that gives power to make Jesus real to you and known to others.
– Winkie Pratney –
We need more Holy Spirit power – John Stott
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
– John Stott –