Are you prepared? Oh Lord let us be. August 28, 2010

I’ve been reading a book on campus revivals and came across this sermon by Charles Spurgeon. In it he says:

“Let us be silent, now, for a minute, and consider what is the that we desire of the Lord. The conversion of thousands, the overthrow of error; the spread of the Redeemer’s kingdom. Think if your minds what the blessings are which your soul pants after. Get a correct idea of them, and then inquire whether you are to receive them. Suppose they were to be now bestowed, are you ready? If thousands of converts were to be born unto this one church, are you prepared to teach them, instruct them, and comfort them? Are you doing it now, you Christian people? Are you acting in such a way that God knows you to be fit to have the charge of those converts that you are asking for?”

Let us get ready now. Lets love our friends more intensely, train, teach and disciple with greater passion that we might withstand the flood of blessings that the Lord might bring to us this year.

You shall hold your next meeting in my parlour August 26, 2010

“At Hampden-Sydney College there was also revival….Three students exercising their faith int he privacy of their dorm room were surrounding by agnostic peers who demanded they cease their personal acts of devotion. The disturbance grew so severe that the president, Dr. John Blair Smith, was called to investigate. When he realized that the charges against the young men were the “sins” of private worship and prayer, he replied with tears: “Oh. is there such a state of things in this college? Ten God has come near to us. My dear young friends, you shall be protected. You shall hold your next meeting in my parlour, and I will be one of your number.” Amazingly, half the college was at that meeting and what one nineteenth century writer terms as glorious revival sept not only the college, but the surrounding countryside as well.” Excerpt from “When God walked on campus: A brief history of evangelical awakening at American colleges and universities”