We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of prayer meetings in fostering positive change within churches.
Charles Spurgeon suggests that for churches to improve and evolve in a meaningful way, there must be a shift in how prayer meetings are valued by Christians. He implies that when prayer takes a central role in the community's spiritual life, it can lead to transformative change within the church itself, highlighting the connection between prayer and a thriving faith community.
In practice
During a sermon about community involvement, this quote can be used to emphasize the value of prayer gatherings.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.
My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.
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