POWER IN THE HEART by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 49.

POWER IN THE HEART.

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

THE zeal that God arouses within us is often the means of effecting the purpose which we desire. After all, God does not give conversion to eloquence, but to heart. The power in the hand of God's Spirit for conversions is heart coming into contact with heart. This is God's battle-ax and weapon of war in this crusade. He is pleased to use the yearnings, longings, and sympathies of Christian men as the means of compelling the careless to think, constraining the hardened to feel, and driving the unbelieving to consider. I have little confidence in elaborate speech and polished sentences as the means of reaching men's hearts; but I have great faith in that simple-minded Christian woman who must have souls converted, or she will weep her eyes out over them, and in that humble Christian who prays day and night in secret, and then avails himself of every opportunity to address a loving word to sinners. The emotion we feel and the affection we bear are the most powerful implements of soul winning. God, the Holy Ghost, usually breaks hard hearts by tender expostulations.—Spurgeon.