by Tim Cameron | Jan 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Provoking Thoughts on Prayer
The secret of the success of the apostles lay not in what they did and said, but in the presence of Christ in them and with them. They saw with the eyes of Christ, felt with His heart, and worked with His energies. They were nothing: Christ was everything. Christ was living, breathing, and triumphing in their personal lives. Their entire nature being replete with His life, their spirits bathed in His light, and their souls kindled with the fires of His love, they moved in the midst of men as embodiments of supernatural power…Brethren, this is what we must be, if this mighty empire (China) is to be moved through us. But to be this, the throne of grace must be our refuge, the secret place of prayer before the Most high must be our daily and hourly habitation.
Griffith John
Who was Griffith John?
Griffith John served in China for 55 years. He was among the first to begin Christian missionary work in there. He set up schools, hospitals and training colleges, with a permanent base at Hankou (now part of Wuhan city) in Hubei. In 1861 he went from Shanghai through the provinces of central China, and established over 100 mission stations. During a career spanning 60 years John left China only three times. He became fluent in Chinese. He fought the opium trade and established one of the first major thrusts to address its impact on Chinese culture.
by Tim Cameron | Jan 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Do You Really Believe the Boundless
Possibilities of Prayer?
The scripture reveals the possibilities of prayer to be as great as the boundless measure of redemptive grace. The unsparing God places no limit on our praying because there is no limit placed on His giving. If we believe that Christ was sacrificed to save us to the uttermost, we must likewise believe that He is able to supply our needs to the uttermost.
The lamentable fact is we have been exceedingly slow to comprehend the unlimited possibilities of prayer revealed in Christ’s plain words. When we fully understand His instructions about praying and grasp the promises by faith, we will not find it difficult to pray the effectual fervent prayer of achieving faith.
T. M. Anderson
by Tim Cameron | Jan 4, 2017 | T. M. Anderson
Are You Too Sleepy to Watch and Pray?
I am thoroughly convinced that a great spiritual awakening will come to this benighted world if the people of God will deny themselves of sleep and seek God in the peaceful hours of the morning. It is my firm conviction that the Asbury revival set the pattern to be followed in order to have a great revival in this day and age of the world. But, Is it possible that we are too indolent and indifferent to pray? Is there no passion for souls? Is there no sincere concern for the lost? Can it be that we are too sleepy to watch with Christ in the Gethsemane of prevailing prayer? Are our physical comforts more important than or praying for others?
We are woefully wanting in natural ability to help others spiritually; we have nothing to set before them (Gala. 5:17). Unless we avail ourselves of the abundant resources of Christ through Holy Spirit empowered prayer, we will never have anything of spiritual worth to set before a starving world.
T. M. Anderson
by Tim Cameron | Dec 30, 2016 | Oswald Chambers
Provoking Thoughts on Prayer
This is Intercession
When we pray for others the Spirit of God works in the unconscious domain of their being that we know nothing about, and the one we are praying for knows nothing about, but after the passing of time the conscious life of the one prayed for begins to show sigs of unrest and disquiet. We may have spoken until we are worn out, but have never come anywhere near, and we have given up in despair. But if we have been praying, we find on meeting them one day that there is the beginning of a softening in an inquiry and a desire to know something.
It is that kind of intercession that does the most damage to Satan’s kingdom. It is so slight, so feeble in its initial stages that if reason is not wedded to the light of the Holy Spirit, we will never obey it, and yet it is that kind of intercession that the New Testament places most emphasis on.
Oswald Chambers
by Tim Cameron | Dec 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
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