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God can withdraw His presence, and if He does, things just become normal and blah. Who wants that? What happens if we call on God to come near?
Recent Entries
Theological SteakApril 10, 2012
These words by P. T. Forsythe on the magnificence of Christ's work are to theology what Ruth's Chris is to a good steak.
Describing the Indescribable
February 11, 2012
What we have in Christ will take all eternity to describe. But for one segment of one sermon, a great preacher made a mighty attempt.
Making Sense Of It All
January 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
Suffering Saints
January 25, 2012
We get nervous thinking about it - suffering for the sake of Christ. How necessary is it, and what does it produce in us?
George Herbert on Prayer Meetings
January 21, 2012
Prayer Meetings are a thing of the past. Or so it seems. What has been lost? Maybe more than we realize.
When Fear Is Good
January 7, 2012
NO FEAR, we are told. And the point is well taken. But fear can be healthy, at least when it comes to eternal matters.
Happy, Happy, Happy
January 4, 2012
The declaration of independence holds up the pursuit of happiness as a right. Did you ever consider the reading the bible might be the one source that will never let you down?
Rend The Heavens And Come Down
July 8, 2008
….the people felt the weight of Divine truths.
John Wesley journal entry
Summer of 1837 – a prayer meeting was opened at the church. No visible or general movement among the people until August 1839, when….”the word of God came with such power to the hearts and consciences of the people here, and their thirst for hearing it became so intense, the evening classes in the schoolroom were changed into densely crowded congregations in the church, and for nearly four months it was found desirable to have public worship almost every night….” Robert Murray M’cheyne
“…you who call on the Lord, (you who are the Lord’s remembrancers) give yourselves no rest till he…” (fill in the blanks!) Isaiah 62:6,7
You have not called upon me, O Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves for me, O Israel. Isaiah 43:22
No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you… Isaiah 64:7
I lay prostrate before the Lord those 40 days and 40 nights….Deuteronomy 9:25
During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears….Hebrews 5:7
“While pursuing the revival, it seemed as if I must DIE in the pursuit, and never overtake it.” Edward Payson
When I first came to New Park Street Chapel, it was but a mere handful of people to whom I first preached, yet I can never forget how earnestly they prayed. Sometimes they seemed to plead as though they could really see the Angel of the covenant present with them, and as if they must have a blessing from Him.
More than once, we were all so awe-struck with the solemnity of the meeting, that we sat silent for some moments while the Lord’s power appeared to over-shadow us…..
M’Cheyne, in speaking of the revival in his church, speaks of seasons of remarkable solemnity when the house of God literally became ‘a Bochim, a place of weepers.’
Spurgeon continues…..all I could do on such occasions was to pronounce the Benediction, and say, “Dear friends, we have had the Spirit of God here very manifestly tonight; let us go home, and take care not to lose his gracious influences.”
Then down came the blessing; the house was filled with hearers, and many souls were saved. I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings in New Park Street that moved our very souls.
Every man seemed like a crusader besieging the New Jerusalem, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession, and soon the blessing came upon us in such abundance that we had not room to receive it. C.H. Spurgeon
M’Cheyne admits that the Holy Spirit can work in a “more quiet manner.” But he also comment, “it is the duty of all ministers to long and pray for such solemn times, when the arrows shall be sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies, and our slumbering congregations shall be made to cry out, ‘Men and brethren, what shall we do?’
These meetings were characterized by ‘the most solemn awe, the deepest compassion for conflicted souls, and an unutterable sense of the hardness of my own heart.”
John Wesley journal entry
Summer of 1837 – a prayer meeting was opened at the church. No visible or general movement among the people until August 1839, when….”the word of God came with such power to the hearts and consciences of the people here, and their thirst for hearing it became so intense, the evening classes in the schoolroom were changed into densely crowded congregations in the church, and for nearly four months it was found desirable to have public worship almost every night….” Robert Murray M’cheyne
“…you who call on the Lord, (you who are the Lord’s remembrancers) give yourselves no rest till he…” (fill in the blanks!) Isaiah 62:6,7
You have not called upon me, O Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves for me, O Israel. Isaiah 43:22
No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you… Isaiah 64:7
I lay prostrate before the Lord those 40 days and 40 nights….Deuteronomy 9:25
During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears….Hebrews 5:7
“While pursuing the revival, it seemed as if I must DIE in the pursuit, and never overtake it.” Edward Payson
When I first came to New Park Street Chapel, it was but a mere handful of people to whom I first preached, yet I can never forget how earnestly they prayed. Sometimes they seemed to plead as though they could really see the Angel of the covenant present with them, and as if they must have a blessing from Him.
More than once, we were all so awe-struck with the solemnity of the meeting, that we sat silent for some moments while the Lord’s power appeared to over-shadow us…..
M’Cheyne, in speaking of the revival in his church, speaks of seasons of remarkable solemnity when the house of God literally became ‘a Bochim, a place of weepers.’
Spurgeon continues…..all I could do on such occasions was to pronounce the Benediction, and say, “Dear friends, we have had the Spirit of God here very manifestly tonight; let us go home, and take care not to lose his gracious influences.”
Then down came the blessing; the house was filled with hearers, and many souls were saved. I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings in New Park Street that moved our very souls.
Every man seemed like a crusader besieging the New Jerusalem, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession, and soon the blessing came upon us in such abundance that we had not room to receive it. C.H. Spurgeon
M’Cheyne admits that the Holy Spirit can work in a “more quiet manner.” But he also comment, “it is the duty of all ministers to long and pray for such solemn times, when the arrows shall be sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies, and our slumbering congregations shall be made to cry out, ‘Men and brethren, what shall we do?’
These meetings were characterized by ‘the most solemn awe, the deepest compassion for conflicted souls, and an unutterable sense of the hardness of my own heart.”
