Sermons & Devotionals by Classic Christian Writings

Fasting is the abstention from food for a period of time. Various forms of fasts are possible. First of all, there is what I call the absolute fast. The absolute fast is one in which the person fasting eats no food whatsoever and drinks no water for a certain length of time. Moses underwent two abso... Read More

A remarkable account of God’s working in the Belgian Congo in 1935, as reported in Worldwide Magazine, former publication of WEC International. What a shock it was when news of the Belgian Government’s edict reached us! It looked as though we would not only have to close some of our existing station... Read More

"What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not!" (Jonah 1:6). Arise, Church of the living God! Call upon your God! The sands of time are swiftly running out. Night has almost come. Judgment's clouds are heavy in the eastern sky! Yet ... Read More

The lives of most Christians are not full, much less overflowing. Most Christians live far beneath the Scriptural pattern of victorious living. There are far too many sub-standard Christians. The Spirit-filled, Spirit-ruled, Spirit-guided life is the norm for every Christian. The Word of God abounds... Read More

"And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house" (Acts 16:31). The same God who said if you believe you shall be saved, also said if you believe your house shall be saved. God has committed Himself to this fact. This may not sound reasonable to an individual,... Read More

“Revival!” is the focused, pointed, piercing cry of vast numbers of God’s own Blood-bought people around the world today. Does God stir our hearts to pray so earnestly for revival—for a mighty, fresh outpouring of His Spirit—just to mock us? Indeed not! He who puts these prayers of faith in our burd... Read More

"All Thy works shall praise Thee, O Lord; and Thy saints shall bless Thee" (Psalm 145:10). When you and I praise God, there is the element of will, of intelligence, of desire, of intent; and in the saints of God there is another element, namely, that love to Him of reverent gratitude toward Him, and... Read More

It was the hours Gladstone spent alone with God in prayer that made him a wise and safe leader of England. It was the hours Spurgeon spent alone in prayer that made him the great preacher that he was. It was in the hour when defeat seemed inevitable that Joshua stood in prayer to God, and the answer... Read More

“What is wrong with the church?” many are inclined to ask. The church is not simply the man who stands in the pulpit to preach. It is not simply the deacons and office bearers, teachers in the Sunday School, or those engaged in visitation and bus ministry. The church is made up of ordinary men and w... Read More

Horatius Bonar, a Scottish Presbyterian minister of Scotland (1808-1889) wrote the following particularly for ministers of the Gospel, but it contains good exhortation for all of us today. We have not been people of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered amongst us. The closet has been too littl... Read More

"Redeeming the time, because the days are evil" (Ephesians 5:16). Life is made of moments. Time is golden. It has fleeting wings. As the years advance time becomes increasingly precious. We have twenty-four hours to each day, three hundred and sixty-five days to a year and 3,692 Sabbaths to a life o... Read More

Nearly everyone agrees that "time flies!" "There just aren’t enough hours in the day!" is a common complaint. Yet each of us receives an equal "income" of this valuable commodity--168 hours a week--whether we are a person of prominence or a little-known John Doe. The difference is how we spend it. N... Read More

Consecration is not a religiously selfish thing. If it sinks into that, it ceases to be consecration. We want our lives kept, not that we may feel happy, and be saved the distress consequent on wandering, and get the power with God and man and all the other privileges linked with it. We shall have a... Read More

We busy folk in this age of rush don’t seem to have time to pray until we are weeping and mourning out our hearts before our loving Heavenly Father. But God is not changing His terms. He calls for us to put everything we have into this matter of praying for a Holy Ghost revival. If the stark terror ... Read More

Joel, the prophet of the coming of the Holy Ghost, held up as the first of Israel’s prophets the immense beaconlight of His coming. But it remained unfulfilled for eight hundred years, until Pentecost. Meanwhile, revival after revival swept through Israel. Exactly so, the advent of the Holy Ghost in... Read More

The Church of God is the creation of the Holy Spirit. It is a community of believers who owe their religious life from first to last to the Spirit. Apart from Him there can be neither Christian nor Church. The Christian religion is not institutional but experimental. It is not by an ordained class, ... Read More

We can lay up treasure in heaven by observing three things: 1. By giving our best to God. The best of time, of thought, of health, of influence, and by giving the best percentage we can of our earnings or our income. 2. By giving everything in the best spirit. Cheerfully, gladly, without grumbling o... Read More

A comprehensive view of true and successful prayer will show that there are nine essential elements included. The first is adoration; we cannot meet God on a level at the start. We must approach Him as One far beyond our reach or sight. The next is confession; sin must be put out of the way. We cann... Read More

The world is still sleeping its sleep of death. It has been a slumber of many generations; sometimes deeper, sometimes lighter --yet still a slumber like that of the tomb, as if destined to continue till the last trumpet sound, and then there shall be no more sleep! Yet God has not left it to sleep ... Read More

Jesus never preached an easy Gospel, a soft, compromising way of salvation. Before we are saved, we live to please ourselves. When we get saved, we give up our own ways and seek to please God. "No man can serve two masters" (Matt. 6:24). "Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, h... Read More