Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of group prayer and sincere devotion in accessing divine power.
Charles Spurgeon highlights the significance of communal prayer as a means to engage with the Holy Spirit and receive His power. He suggests that true effectiveness in prayer comes from unity, fervency, earnestness, and unwavering faith among believers, pointing to the prayer meeting as a crucial setting for spiritual empowerment.
In practice
In a church sermon, to encourage attendance at a prayer meeting.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.
Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.
Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering.
In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.
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