I managed to find the following excerpt about the power of prayer. When i read it again yesterday, my spirit leaped, burning with intense passion, and tears threatened to spill out of my eyes... really... i'm not being dramatic... thinking: "Yes, this is how it should be!"
I remembered reading it in April or May this year, and i was reminded by the Holy Spirit to share it in a class i was going to teach yesterday (this was just a few hours before the class). But i could not find it on the internet as i could not remember who it was, and kept on looking for the wrong person. The two other persons i searched were ALSO prayerful and powerful men of God!
Finally, just an hour before class, i asked my husband whether he remembered who it was that had 700 men praying in the basement before and during his meetings. It took him just 3 seconds before he replied (he's the one with the better memory): "Spurgeon".
I googled that and here it is...
"A group of seminary students decided to visit Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, to hear the "Prince of Preachers," Charles Spurgeon, and hopefully discover the secret of his spiritual power. An elderly man greeted them as they walked in and asked, "Would you like to see the church's heating plant?"
"Stacks of coal and dirty pipes in a dark basement were among the last things that the students wanted to see, but out of respect they followed him down into a large open room where they saw over 700 people in earnest prayer for the meetings of the day.
"This," said the wise old man (aka Spurgeon), "is what heats this church." Judging from the thousands who sought and found Christ at the church, God blessed where He was invited."
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