| › Preface - Lectures on Revivals
of Religion
By
CHARLES G. FINNEY
THE LECTURER'S PREFACE.
Let it be remembered, that these Lectures were delive ...read |
| › 1: Lecture 1 - What A Revival Of Religion Is - TEXT. -- O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. --HAB. iii. 2.
IT is sup ...read |
| › 2: Lecture 2 - When A Revival Is To Be Expected - TEXT. --Wilt thou not revive us again; that thy people may rejoice in thee? --PSALM lxxxv. 6.
THIS Psalm seems to have been written soon after the ...read |
| › 3: Lecture 3 - How To Promote A Revival - TEXT. --Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.--HOSEA X. 12.
THE Jews were a n ...read |
| › 4: Lecture 4 - Prevailing Prayer - TEXT. --The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.--JAMES V. 16.
THE last lecture referred principally to the confession of si ...read |
| › 5: Lecture 5 - The Prayer Of Faith - TEXT. --"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." --MARK xi. 24. ...read |
| › 6: Lecture 6 - The Spirit Of Prayer - TEXT. --Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercessi ...read |
| › 7: Lecture 7 - On Being Filled With The Spirit - TEXT. --Be filled with the Spirit. --EPH. v. 18.
SEVERAL of my last lectures have been on the subject of prayer, and the importance of having the s ...read |
| › 8: Lecture 8 - Meetings For Prayer - TEXT. --"Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Fat ...read |
| › 9: Lecture 9 - Means To Be Used With Sinners - TEXT.--Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen. --ISAIAH xliii:10.
IN the text it is affirmed of the children of God ...read |
| › 10: Lecture 10 - To Win Souls Requires Wisdom - TEXT. --He that winneth souls is wise. --PROVERBS xi. 30.
THE most common definition of wisdom is, that it is the choice of the best end and the se ...read |
| › 11: Lecture 11 - A Wise Minister Will Be Successful - TEXT. --He that winneth souls is wise. --PROVERBS xi. 30.
I PREACHED last Friday evening from the same text, on the method of dealing with sinners ...read |
| › 12: Lecture 12 - How To Preach The Gospel - TEXT. --He that winneth souls is wise. --PROVERBS xi. 30.
ONE of the last remarks in my last lecture, was this, that the text ascribes conversion t ...read |
| › 13: Lecture 13 - How Churches Can Help Ministers - TEXT. --And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses's hands w ...read |
| › 14: Lecture 14 - Measures To Promote Revivals - TEXT. --These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city and teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Rom ...read |
| › 15: Lecture 15 - Hindrances To Revivals - TEXT. --I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you."-- NEHEMIAH vi. 3.
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| › 16: Lecture 16 - The Necessity And Effect Of Union - TEXT. --Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth, as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Fathe ...read |
| › 17: Lecture 17 - False Comforts For Sinners - TEXT.--How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood.--JOB xxi. 34.
JOB'S three friends insisted on it that the ...read |
| › 18: Lecture 18 - Directions To Sinners - TEXT --What shall I do to be saved.--ACTS xvi. 30.
THESE are the words of the jailor at Philippi, the question which he put to Paul and Silas, who ...read |
| › 19: Lecture 19 - Instructions To Converts - TEXT. --Feed my lambs.--JOHN xxi. 15.
YOU, who read your Bibles, recollect the connection in which these words are found, and by whom they were spo ...read |
| › 20: Lecture 20 - Instructions To Converts (Continued) - TEXT.--Feed my lambs.--JOHN xxi. 15.
I REMARKED on this text in my last lecture, and was obliged, for want of time, to omit many of the points whic ...read |
| › 21: Lecture 21 - The Backslider In Heart - TEXT.--The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways.--Prov. xiv. 14.
I CANNOT conclude this course of lectures, without warning conver ...read |
| › 22: Lecture 22 - Growth In Grace - TEXT--But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.--2 Pet. iii.18.
I must conclude this Course of Lectures by givin ...read |
