The Good Old Days
May God turn the church back to the old paths again!
Written by Bill Burkett
Some modern Christians don't like to hear the older believers
speaking of the "The good ole days when...." Contemporaries
say we are living in the greatest days of the church's history.
I beg your pardon! The greatest days of the church are recorded
in the Book of Acts. Here is our origin, our precedent, our
criteria for spiritual power. There have been visitations and
revivals and reforms, but through the church age there has also
been a digression of character and power from the beginning.
But we who have been in the fires of Pentecostal revival as it
has swept across our land in years gone by know that what the
church is experiencing today, and believing today, is different
from the faith of yester year. We were born in the fire and
can't stand the smoke.
The early church had power because it had holiness of life.
Only a return to that original praying faith will bring back
that power to the church.
In Acts there were ...
Earthquakes accompanying prayer meetings!
Angels visiting on the housetops!
Lying Christians dropping dead at the apostles' feet!
Persecutors knocked down blind and turned into chief apostles!
The sick were healed by the shadows of the apostles as they
walked by!
Deacons were translated through thin air to heathen chariots.
The early church transformed cities, challenged the pagans on
Mars hill
- and rocked the Roman empire!
Angels picked the lock on Caesar's prison and set the captive
free!
The apostles had such an anointing the world is still talking
about what
- they did 2000 years ago!
Those were the good old days! Nothing today matches it -
and we should be praying earnestly in our secret closets of
prayer for such manifestations - God visit us again before His
return.
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Bill Burkett
~ "Every one that doeth righteousness is born of him." - 1 John 2:29 ~
Web site - http://www.goshen.net/amen/amen.htm
Copyright ?1996 - Bill Burkett
Box 90/ Anderson, MO 64831/ U.S.A.
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