Monday, August 31, 2009

The battle is always the Lord's....

Listen to the words of one of the greatest evangelists ever:

"Envied by some, despised by many, hated by others, often blamed for things I never heard of or had nothing to do with... often sick in body as well as perplexed in mind and embarrassed by circumstances-had not the Lord been specially gracious to me, had not my mind been sustained by the conviction that the work is His and that He is with me in what it is no empty figure to call "The think of the conflict," I must have fainted or broken down. But the battles is the Lord's, and He will conquer. We may fail-do fail continually-but He never fails. Still, I need your prayers more than ever." ~ James Hudson Taylor, missionary to China & founder of the China Inland Mission

"'Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater power with us than with him. With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.'" ~2 Chronicles 32:7-9

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Are you sharing the Gospel with others?

"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for." ~ Charles Spurgeon

"Preach abroad. It is the cooping yourselves up in rooms that has dampened the work of God, which never was and never will be carried out to any purpose without going into the highways and hedges and compelling men and women to come in." ~ Jonathan Edwards

"Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'" ~ C.S. Lewis

"When Andrew went to find his brother, he little imagined how eminent Simon would become....You may be very deficient in talent yourself, and yet you may be the means of drawing to Christ one who shall become eminent in grace and service." ~ Charles Spurgeon

"I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou can eat it all to thyself." ~ Charles Spurgeon


"Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?" ~ Leonard Ravenhill

"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth." ~ John Wesley

"As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others." ~ Charles Spurgeon


"The world is my parish." ~ John Wesley

"There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven." ~ Dwight L. Moody

"Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself, be sure of that." ~ Charles Spurgeon

"And he said unto them, 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.'" ~Mark 16:15