February 27

“My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.”  (1 Corinthians 2:4)

Many people think that we need new measures, that we need new churches, that we need new organs, and that we need new choirs, and all these new things. But what the Church of God needs to-day is the old power that the apostles had: if we have that in our churches, there will be new life. Then we will have new ministers—the same old ministers renewed with power, filled with the Spirit.

I remember when in Chicago many were toiling in the work, and it seemed as though the car of salvation didn’t move on, when a minister began to cry out from the very depths of his heart, “Oh, God, put new ministers in every pulpit.” The next Monday I heard two or three men say, “We had a new minister last Sunday—the same old minister, but he had got new power.” I firmly believe that is what we want to-day all over the land. We want new ministers in the pulpit and new people in the pews. We want people quickened by the Spirit of God.