Sermons & Devotionals by Classic Christian Writings

George Whitefield was the son of an innkeeper in England who figured largely in "The Great Awakening" of the 18th century. When he began to preach, a great gift of eloquence was revealed in him. Soon the complaint was rife that he was driving people mad, and the churches began to close upon him. One... Read More

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee” (Isaiah 26:3). A wonderful promise is that, and it ought to be the aim of every one of us to make it our experience. The way to do this is simple: it is to keep our minds stayed on our Lord. But while it... Read More

Perseverance counts much with God as well as with man. If Elijah had ceased at his first petition, the heavens would have scarcely yielded their rain to his feeble praying. If Jacob had quit praying at decent bedtime, he would scarcely have survived the next day's meeting with Esau. If the Syrophoen... Read More

D.L. Moody once heard a man say that the world has yet to see what one man, fully surrendered, can accomplish for God. Moody said he would be that man, and he wrought great things for the Kingdom, and moved two nations Godward. A New York business man paraphrased that statement that stirred Moody’s ... Read More

The following message was given at the Heart-Cry for Revival Conference, April 2004, at The Cove, Asheville, North Carolina U.S.A. Let us turn in the book of Genesis to chapter 18: "Now the Lord appeared to him [Abraham] by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the ... Read More

“Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name, that will I do” (John 14:12-13). As the Savior opened His public ministry with His disciples b... Read More

The purpose of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ every day from the crowning to the coming. Our Lord did not permit His chosen followers to witness a word in His name until endued with power from on high. It is true that before Pentecost they were "born again" and had the witness o... Read More

"Power belongeth unto God" (Psa. 62:11). "Ye shall receive power, after…." (Acts 1:8). In the valedictory service of Acts chapter one, our Lord holds before His disciples the promise of power. The word is "dunamis" – ability (Young). We have gravely pauperized this text. We have held it before convi... Read More

Before sinners will be won to the Lord, there must be revival in the hearts of the believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. We need, desperately need, the filling of the Holy Spirit from on high. Winning men and women to Christ Jesus is a miracle. It requires supernatural power. Nothing less than the Hol... Read More

Some of my most poignant and gratifying memories as a parent are of the snowy winter mornings when our youngest son would quietly slip into our room and snuggle down between my husband and me as we were having our prayer time together. (In warmer weather, we find we stay awake better by getting out ... Read More

Prayer and praise must never be separated. Prayer and praise are the two wings by which our souls mount into the heavenlies. If either one is neglected, we fail to mount up with wings as eagles (Isa. 40:31). Prayer and praise are the two steps by which the army of the Lord marches forward. As surely... Read More

The last direct message from Heaven is contained in Revelation 22:20: "Surely I come quickly." Who is the speaker from yonder glorious heights? Our much-loved Lord and Saviour. Heaven has kept silent for nearly 2000 years. Next time the voice of the Saviour is heard it will be in the air, calling fr... Read More

America's greatest need is to re-establish the Christian homes it once had. The family altar is eliminated from many homes these latter days. God always has blessed the home where parents and children gather once a day to read the Bible and pray together. That kind of home does not disintegrate. Chr... Read More

"Go, lead the people" (Ex. 32:25-35). As Jesus, Paul, Elijah and Moses met God in prolonged periods of testing, overcoming through prevailing prayer, so must the leaders who would lead us out of our quagmire, meet God in periods of fasting and seclusion. There is no doubt that prayer is the key to a... Read More

The affairs of the nations are not something for the politicians alone. They must also be the concern of religious leaders because "righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people" (Proverbs 14:34). Let us not drift into the election in our nation in November without sensing the... Read More

God loves to have His children pray for the impossible. "With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible" (Matthew 19:26). That is God’s invitation to ask Him to do that which no man can do. Someone has said: "We have lost the eternal youthfulness of Christianity, and have aged int... Read More

It is 24 years ago in July that God took Sarah Foulkes Moore, co-founder of Herald of His Coming, to her rest. In tribute to this saint of God who poured out her life as few others have, in passion and prayer for world evangelization through world revival, we reprint this anointed plea from her pen.... Read More

On every hand God’s children are crying to Him for revival. “Wilt Thou not revive us again: that Thy people may rejoice in Thee?” (Psa. 85:6) – and God is not unmindful of their cries by any means. “For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are open unto their prayers” (1 Peter 3... Read More

Is it not true that the prayers of Hezekiah and Isaiah turned back the great army of Sennacherib? Did not Daniel alone, in fasting and prayer, pray Cyrus into a disposition to send the Jews back into their land? And did not the prayers of Nehemiah turn the heart of Artaxerxes to send Nehemiah again ... Read More

Today’s culture is in trouble! The devil’s conspiracy is to dismantle and destroy the Christian heritage of America and other countries. Sacred biblical principles are under attack. Satan will stop at nothing to defeat us. No nation can survive when there is a moral and social breakdown. What an opp... Read More