He made the distinction at the beginning of the book, that God can save without the need of anyone else, but that God has chosen, chooses, to work through men and women to bring people to Himself. It felt like, even as He was saying that it’s the Spirit who saves, it’s the Spirit of God who does the work, he was really saying by our actions or our level of energy or our commitment, that’s how people will see God (and be saved). There were sections that convicted my heart (that probably says more about me than the book), but I struggled with the tone of his writing the whole way through. Moody loved God and men, and the power of a love like that impacts generations. Today, Moody’s name still graces a church, a mission, a college, and more. But Christ found him and his energies were redirected into full-time ministry. Moody, determined to make a fortune, arrived in Chicago and started selling shoes. Do you know what heaven’s measure is? Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together and running over (Luke 6:38).ĭwight L. Then the measure of our blessing will be full. Let it be God’s glory and not our own that we seek, and when we get to that point, the Lord will bless us for good. He will never give it to an ambitious man whose aim is selfish, until he is first emptied of himself – emptied of pride and all worldly thoughts. But remember, He is not going to give this power to an impatient man He is not going to give it to a selfish man.

Have we been toiling all night? Let us throw our net on the right side let us ask God to forgive our sins and anoint us with power from on high. But if we look to the Spirit of God and expect that power to come from Him and Him alone, then we shall honor the Spirit, and the Spirit will do His work. If we only look to ministers, if we only look to Christ’s disciples to do this work, we shall be disappointed. And if we want that power to quicken our friends who are dead in sin, we must look to God and not to man to do it. No other power on earth can quicken a dead soul except the same power that raised the body of Jesus Christ out of Joseph’s sepulcher. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes in me, the works that I do he shall do also and greater works than these shall he do because I go unto my Father.

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