'Nothing short of being red hot for God, can keep the glow of heaven in our hearts, these chilly days.
The early Methodists had no heating apparatus in their churches. They declared that the flame in the pew and the fire in the pulpit must suffice to keep them warm. And we, of this hour, have need to have the live coal from God's altar and the consuming flame from heaven glowing in our hearts.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 20)
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'These chilly days.'
WE ARE SLEEPING!
WE ARE LUKEWARM!
DON'T YOU FEEL IT?!
YES! I'M YELLING!
WAKE UP! WAKE UP! We need to wake up out of the awful slumber we are in. We need to get out of the comfortableness of being lukewarm! We have to STOP believing that we have need of nothing! More than ever we have to realize that we are POOR, we are WRETCHED, we are MISERABLE, we are BLIND, and we are NAKED!
WAKE UP!
RIP THE BLINDERS OFF OUR EYES!
We've placed God behind Self not in front of Self. We've put ourselves FIRST in so much. We put ourselves in the place of God when we adjust the blinders on our eyes that allow us to place God behind our comforts, our desires, our needs, our wants. The idea that God should be in the forefront of our lives, that heaven should be a reality desired desperately daily, is foreign to us! We save all that for those called to be preachers, and teachers, evangelists, and prophets. We regulate ourselves to a lower place and content ourselves that it is not up to us to be truly on fire for God, that's for others. And when we put ourselves down on the rung of those called of God to be His, we fall into a deadly sleep, a sleep without any extra oil in our lamps, a sleep that has us putting blinders on our eyes so no real light can get in. We LOVE our lukewarmness, and we should despise it, repent of it! We need to pray for that LIVE COAL from GOD'S altar! WE need HIM IN US, alive, on fire! We need Him REALIZED in our LIVES as our SAVIOR.
Please, LORD, wake us up!
Please.
The early Methodists had no heating apparatus in their churches. They declared that the flame in the pew and the fire in the pulpit must suffice to keep them warm. And we, of this hour, have need to have the live coal from God's altar and the consuming flame from heaven glowing in our hearts.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 20)
*******
'These chilly days.'
WE ARE SLEEPING!
WE ARE LUKEWARM!
DON'T YOU FEEL IT?!
YES! I'M YELLING!
WAKE UP! WAKE UP! We need to wake up out of the awful slumber we are in. We need to get out of the comfortableness of being lukewarm! We have to STOP believing that we have need of nothing! More than ever we have to realize that we are POOR, we are WRETCHED, we are MISERABLE, we are BLIND, and we are NAKED!
WAKE UP!
RIP THE BLINDERS OFF OUR EYES!
We've placed God behind Self not in front of Self. We've put ourselves FIRST in so much. We put ourselves in the place of God when we adjust the blinders on our eyes that allow us to place God behind our comforts, our desires, our needs, our wants. The idea that God should be in the forefront of our lives, that heaven should be a reality desired desperately daily, is foreign to us! We save all that for those called to be preachers, and teachers, evangelists, and prophets. We regulate ourselves to a lower place and content ourselves that it is not up to us to be truly on fire for God, that's for others. And when we put ourselves down on the rung of those called of God to be His, we fall into a deadly sleep, a sleep without any extra oil in our lamps, a sleep that has us putting blinders on our eyes so no real light can get in. We LOVE our lukewarmness, and we should despise it, repent of it! We need to pray for that LIVE COAL from GOD'S altar! WE need HIM IN US, alive, on fire! We need Him REALIZED in our LIVES as our SAVIOR.
Please, LORD, wake us up!
Please.
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