If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 90% of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. That is a very state of affairs because if the early church had experience the withdrawing of the Holy Spirit everybody would have noticed. It does not have to be that way; it should not be that way; we can remedy that problem and we must.
Tag: Christians
Do You really want to see Revival?
It is a waste of time for a group of believers to spend long hours begging God for revival. If we ourselves do not intend to reform then we may as well not pray.
Unless praying people have enough insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to be in complete conformity to the New Testament pattern then there will be no genuine revival.
Do you Truly Follow The Christ
What’s closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God’s close to your heart, you’ll talk about Him.
If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other, isn’t that proof that you aren’t [much] concerned about Him? – A. W. Tozer
So we find that there are a lot of Christians who fail to hear God’s voice because they’ve pretty much decided that they aren’t going to do what He says anyway. But “God’s commands are designed to guide you to life’s very best.” – Henry Blackaby
God Knows You
–Pastor Ward Clinton Author
A Great Awakening is Needed
Our situation is not yet hopeless, but it is quickly approaching that point.
Oh? I’m supposed to be preaching “Positive Mental Attitude”?
Funny…That is NOT what God told me to preach. I was instructed, as was every other preacher who was actually commissioned by God, to preach His Scriptural truths, not what man wants to hear. (Unless that man actually desires to hear from God.)
If you do not like it, then you may call “1-800- TELL GOD” and see what that gets you.
(Be forewarned: you might not like His response, but He is God; you ain’t.)
J.C. Ryle listed seven characteristics of the messengers during the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century:
- They taught the supremacy of Holy Scripture.
- They preached the total corruption of human nature.
- They taught that Christ’s death upon the cross was the only satisfaction for man’s sin.
- They preached the doctrine of justification by faith.
- They taught the universal necessity of heart conversion and new creation by the Holy Spirit.
- They spoke of God’s eternal hatred against sin and of God’s love for sinners.
- They preached that there was an inseparable connection between true faith and personal holiness. They never allowed for a moment that any church membership or religious profession was the least bit of proof of a man being a Christian if he lived an ungodly life.
These awakeners continually cried, “No fruit, no grace.”
We must learn that God is holy. If we are to experience the manifest presence of God’s glory; we must repent. When Isaiah saw the glory of God in the Temple, he was driven to brokenness, confession, and repentance. Too many in the West desire to know the manifest love of God without the manifest holiness of God. We have lost the message of true repentance. Now the church in the West is the sleeping Giant. Alarms have been sounded but there seems to be no great or even general awakening; if it doesn’t begin soon the giant may die in its sleep.
Let us pray
Good and Evil
Christians have no business voting Democrat
–Pastor Ward Clinton
A Great Awakening is Needed
Our situation is not yet hopeless, but it is quickly approaching that point.
Oh? I’m supposed to be preaching “Positive Mental Attitude”?
Funny…That is NOT what God told me to preach. I was instructed, as was every other preacher who was actually commissioned by God, to preach His Scriptural truths, not what man wants to hear. (Unless that man actually desires to hear from God.)
If you do not like it, then you may call “1-800- TELL GOD” and see what that gets you.
(Be forewarned: you might not like His response, but He is God; you ain’t.)
J.C. Ryle listed seven characteristics of the messengers during the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century:
- They taught the supremacy of Holy Scripture.
- They preached the total corruption of human nature.
- They taught that Christ’s death upon the cross was the only satisfaction for man’s sin.
- They preached the doctrine of justification by faith.
- They taught the universal necessity of heart conversion and new creation by the Holy Spirit.
- They spoke of God’s eternal hatred against sin and of God’s love for sinners.
- They preached that there was an inseparable connection between true faith and personal holiness. They never allowed for a moment that any church membership or religious profession was the least bit of proof of a man being a Christian if he lived an ungodly life.
These awakeners continually cried, “No fruit, no grace.”
We must learn that God is holy. If we are to experience the manifest presence of God’s glory; we must repent. When Isaiah saw the glory of God in the Temple, he was driven to brokenness, confession, and repentance. Too many in the West desire to know the manifest love of God without the manifest holiness of God. We have lost the message of true repentance. Now the church in the West is the sleeping Giant. Alarms have been sounded but there seems to be no great or even general awakening; if it doesn’t begin soon the giant may die in its sleep.
Let us pray
Let’s Pray
See also 2nd Chronicles 7:14
–Pastor Ward Clinton
Remembering
2nd Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN???
TERRORISM IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL IN AMERICA!!!
I remember the plethora of emotions when I heard and saw the planes fly into the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001. I remember churches were filled with people begging GOD for help and for Him to bless and heal our land. It looked like there was going to be a great turning to God in America.
I remember PEOPLE crying and proclaiming, “HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON…” WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT? WHAT HAPPENED TO TRUTH MARCHING ON? I can tell you that ABORTION is marching on. PROSTITUTION is marching on. PORNOGRAPHY is marching on. GAY MARRIAGE is marching on! WHY AREN’T GODS PEOPLE MARCHING ON??? Isn’t it time we said, “Enough is enough?”
Oh yes, IT CERTAINLY IS TIME WE SAID ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THIS IS GOD’S LAND AND, I hope, WE WILL NOT SURRENDER IT TO THE ENEMY!!!
2nd Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
“That Day” is Approaching
The God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who is the one true God is not bringing people against Israel, either. It is the sad state of this fallen world that it would listen to the god of this world instead of the God who sees and loves and saves.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
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