Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord.

Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?

If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.