Me: I got some wisdom for you.

Prodigal: I’m all ears.

Me: Make sure you taste your words before you spit them out.

This is from the book The Soul Winner by C.H. Spurgeon

It is not our way of putting the Gospel, or even our method of illustrating it, that wins souls, but the Gospel itself does the work in the hands of the Holy Spirit. We must look to Him for the thorough conversion of men. A miracle is to be worked, by which our hearers will become the products of the mighty power that God worked in “Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power” (Ephesians 1:20-21). For this glorious power, we must look outside of ourselves to the living God, must we not? We desire thorough conversion, and therefore we must rely upon the power of the Holy Spirit. If it is a miracle, God must work it, that is clear. It is not accomplished by our reasoning, persuasion, or warning. I can come only from the Lord.

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. Jeremiah 50:22

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org