Need of the Holy Spirit
By C. H. Spurgeon
MENTAL power may fill a chapel; but spiritual power fills the church. Mental power may gather a congregation; spiritual power will save souls. We want spiritual power. O my brethren, we know some ministers before whom we shrink into nothing as to talent, but who have no spiritual power, and when they speak they have not the Holy Spirit with them; but we know others, simple-hearted, worthy men, who speak their country dialect, and who stand up to preach in their humble sanctuary, and the Spirit of God clothes every word with power, hearts are broken, souls are saved, and sinners are born again. Spirit of the living God, we want Thee. Thou art the life and soul of all our hopes; Thou art the source of all our success; without Thee we can do nothing; with Thee we can do everything.—C. H. Spurgeon.