A SIMPLE PRAYER

A Simple Prayer

"I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me" (Acts 27:25).

 I went to America some years ago with the captain of a steamer, who was a very devoted Christian. When off the coast of Newfoundland he said to me, "The last time I crossed here, five weeks ago, something happened which revolutionized the whole of my Christian life. We had George Mueller of Bristol on board. I had been on the bridge twenty-four hours and never left it. George Mueller came to me, and said, "Captain I have come to tell you that I must be in Quebec Saturday afternoon." "It is impossible," I said. "Very well, if your ship cannot take me, God will find some other way. I have never broken an engagement for fifty-seven years. Let us go down into the chart-room and pray."

I looked at that man of God, and thought to myself, what lunatic asylum can that man have come from? I never heard of such a thing as this. "Mr. Mueller," I said, "do you know how dense this fog is?" "No," he replied, "my eye is not on the density of the fog, but on the living God, who controls every circumstance of my life."

He knelt down and prayed one of the most simple prayers, and when he had finished I was going to pray; but he put his hand on my shoulder, and told me not to pray. "First, you do not believe He will answer; and second I BELIEVE HE HAS, and there is no need whatever for you to pray about it."

 I looked at him, and he said, "Captain, I have known my Lord for fifty-seven years, and there has never been a single day that I have failed to get audience with the King. Get up, Captain and open the door, and you will find the fog gone." I got up, and the fog was indeed gone. On Saturday afternoon, George Mueller was in Quebec for his engagement.
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***"If our love were but more simple,
We should take Him at His word;
And our lives would be all sunshine,
In the sweetness of our Lord."

Streams In The desert

THE NECESSITY OF PREACHING ON HELL

THE NECESSITY OF PREACHING ON HELL

(Friday Church News Notes, August 19, 2011, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org) –

The following is from James Wigton, “Lee Roberson: Always about His Father’s Business”, pp. 272, 273:

“In his sermon, Do We Need A New Gospel? Dr. Roberson stated that he did not enjoy preaching about hell--that he would rather preach about God’s love and about heaven. ‘But one day I shall give an account of myself and of my ministry to God,’ he said. ‘In that day I do not want my hands to be stained with the blood of others. Therefore, I must faithfully proclaim the truth of God’s wrath upon all who reject the Savior.”

Roberson recalled the day when he preached strongly on hell in a week-long series of revival meetings at Woodlawn Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Many people were saved in the meetings. The church was the second largest church in Birmingham at that time. ... Roberson related the story in his sermon, Seventy-One Years of Fundamentalism.

‘[The pastor] called me back in his office one night toward the end of the week,’ Roberson remembered. ‘He said, I promised the deacons when I came to this church that I would not preach on hell. So, I have not preached on hell one single time in these five years! Now, I regret it so much when I see what God has done here in just a week’s time. My church has been dying because I have been holding back from them the Word of God!’”

To My Fellow Pastor,

Are you holding back from your brethren in your church God’s Precious Pure Word? When was the last time you preached on the Doctrine of Hell? Remember, we who are called to preach the Gospel is not only responsible but ACCOUNTABLE to Him who called us even our God and Saviour the LORD Jesus Christ! There is a day of reckoning.

Evangelist Emmanuel P. Salvador