The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ. Now, there is a significant insight for those who desire a serious walk with God.
We are not built for ourselves, but for God – not for service for God, but for God.
Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I may be a man of prayer!
Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer MUST be aflame.
Revival and evangelism, although closely linked, are not to be confused. Revival is an experience in the Church; evangelism is an expression of the Church.
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or cleverness of expression, but operates in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected.
The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.
Tearless hearts can never be the heralds of the Passion.
God’s cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans. Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
It is well to get rid of the idea that faith is a matter of spiritual heroism only for a few select spirits. There are heroes of faith, but faith is not only for heroes. It is a matter of spiritual manhood. It is a matter of maturity.
Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die – or if need be, to win and die! “The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
What are Christians put into the world for except to do the impossible in the strength of God.
All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!
Prayer and Pains, through faith in Jesus Christ will do anything.
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE.
And finally a comment from a gathering for Prayer at the time of the Hebrides revival on the west coast of Scotland – Brethren, it is just so much humbug to be waiting for this night after night, month after month, if we ourselves are not right with God. I must ask myself “Is my heart pure? Are my hands clean?”
These are challenging sentences which we can use to inspire and motivate us to come before almighty God in fervent prayer. If that is all they do, they will have achieved a wonderful purpose, because from prayer will flow fruit, of which we have no idea at this present time.
Sandy Shaw is Pastor of Nairn Christian Fellowship, Chaplain at Inverness Prison, and Nairn Academy, and serves on The Children’s Panel in Scotland, and has travelled extensively over these past years teaching, speaking, in America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, making 12 visits to Israel conducting Tours and Pilgrimages, and most recently in Uganda and Kenya, ministering at Pastors and Leaders Seminars, in the poor areas surrounding Kampala, Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.
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