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Presidential Prayer Team; J.R. – Powerful Preaching

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They called him the “Prince of Preachers,” and Charles Haddon Spurgeon often spoke to crowds of more than 10,000 at London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle. He was a wonderful orator, but the secret to his success was not in his skills.

Strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ.  Romans 16:25

Visitors who came to observe Spurgeon’s methods were often escorted by the pastor to a basement prayer room below the church. There, scores of people would be found on their knees praying. “Here is the powerhouse of this church,” Spurgeon informed the visitors. He once boldly said, “If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.”

The preaching of Jesus Christ is not a one-person operation. Preaching is only made powerful and effective by the consistent and faithful prayers of the body of Christ. Before you criticize a pastor’s Sunday sermon, ask yourself whether you were bold and strong in prayer for him in the week preceding. Remember, also, that America will remain a beacon of home and freedom to the world only to the extent you are on your knees, pleading for God’s divine blessing upon her leaders.

Recommended Reading: Ephesians 6:10-20

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Charles Spurgeon – The tabernacle of the Most High

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“In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.” Ephesians 2:22

Suggested Further Reading: Colossians 1:15-27

At last they come to these stones. But how rough, how hard, how unhewn. Yes, but these are the stones ordained of old in the decree, and these must be the stones, and none other. There must be a change effected. These must be brought in and shaped and cut and polished, and put into their places. I see the workmen at their labour. The great saw of the law cuts through the stone, and then comes the polishing chisel of the gospel. I see the stones lying in their places, and the church is rising. The ministers, like wise master-builders, are there running along the wall, putting each spiritual stone in its place; each stone is leaning on that massive corner stone, and every stone depending on the blood, and finding its security and its strength in Jesus Christ, the corner stone, elect, and precious. Do you see the building rise as each one of God’s chosen is brought in, called by grace and quickened? Do you mark the living stones as in sacred love and holy brotherhood they are knit together? Have you ever entered the building, and seen how these stones lean upon one another bearing each other’s burden, so fulfilling the law of Christ? Do you mark how the church loves Christ, and how the members love each other? How first the church is joined to the corner stone, and then each stone bound to the next, and the next to the next, till the whole building becomes one? Lo! The structure rises, and it is complete, and at last it is built. And now open wide your eyes, and see what a glorious building this is—the church of God. Men talk of the splendour of their architecture—this is architecture indeed.

For meditation: Here, two days before the laying of the first stone of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Spurgeon gave a timely reminder that the word “church” is a description of Christian people, not of any building in which they gather. Are you a living stone, built into the spiritual household of God (Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:4,5)?

Sermon no. 267

14 August (1859)