The Full Blessing of Pentecost: How little it is enjoyed - continued 4
The Full Blessing of Pentecost - The One Thing Needful By Andrew Murray How little it is enjoyed (Excerpts - continued 4) "My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." 1 COR. ii. 4, 5. Think how little there is of steadfastness and growth in faith. There is nothing of which ministers, and especially those who labour for the salvation of souls, have to complain more than that there are so many who for a time are full of zeal and then fall away. We see, not only among the young or in times of awakening, but even among many that have for years maintained a good confession, that whenever they enter into another circle of influence, and are put to the proof by prosperity or any special form of temptation, they forthwith cease to persevere. Whence does this unhappy result arise? From nothing but the fact that the preachin