The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.
Christians don’t tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven’t given Him one ounce?
LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it ‘legalism.’
The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!
It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
No man is greater than his prayer life.
You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there’s a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.
The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can’t stick in an hour with God down here?
Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.
Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion! If a man can’t preach with passion he shouldn’t preach at all.