We are to find as much bitterness in weeping for sin as ever we found sweetness in committing it. Surely David found more bitterness in repenting then he ever found comfort in Bathsheba.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Doctrine of Repentance, 1668
What a Spiritual Awakening Is – Lewis Drummond
A spiritual awakening is no more than God’s people seeing God in His holiness, turning from their wicked ways, and being transformed into His likeness.
– Lewis Drummond –
God’s House Must Be a House of Prayer – Jim Cymbala
Only turning God’s house into a house of fervent prayer will reverse the power of evil so evident in the world today.
– Jim Cymbala –
Revealing What’s Inside You – John Owen
Temptations and occasions put nothing into man, but only draw out what was in him before.
– John Owen –
1616-1683
Delivered From Sin and the Power of Sin – J. Edwin Orr
God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well.
– J. Edwin Orr –
The Need of Deliverance from the Power of Sin – Andrew Murray
Believers must be brought into conviction of the shame and evil of the carnal state. God brings believers into, what may be called, a second conviction—conviction of a need of deliverance from the power of sin.
– Andrew Murray –
Convicted of Our Need of Holiness – Major Allistaire Smith
There will be no great Revival until the people of God are deeply convicted of their need of holiness.
– Major Allistaire Smith –
The Prayer That Sparks Revival – Wellington Boone
The prayer that sparks revival begins long before the countryside seems to awaken from its slumber in sin. It starts when men fall on their knees and cry out to God. That’s where true intimacy with God takes place and we begin the journey of being transformed into the image of Christ. And as men are transformed, the course of a nation can be changed.
– Wellington Boone –
No Such Thing as a Carnal Christian – Leonard Ravenhill
Get rid of this bunkum about the “carnal Christian.” Forget it! If you’re carnal, you’re not saved.
– Leonard Ravenhill –