Try Tears

This is my favorite, so I will start here. I have never forgotten this quote by Charles Spurgeon “Winners for souls must first be a weepers for souls”. You see the more time we spend with the Lord the more we get his heart and that is for the lost. Jesus’s heart is that no one should perish and their are souls every minute going to eternity. I have learned this thru trial and error. A lot of us want to just pray a couple minutes and then hit the streets to share the gospel. That is like going out to chop down a tree with a dull axe. The tree would get chopped down, but it would take a lot longer. The work would go much quicker with a sharp axe. I love this story that I heard from back in the early days of the Salvation Army. Some of William Booth’s leaders wrote him a letter. They were distraught because they were not seeing a whole lot of fruit happening in the ministry. General Booth would write back to them to “Try Tears”. These leaders took his advice and they saw the Lord move powerfully. I will never forget the times I saw Evangelist Steve Hill preach at the Brownsville Revival. You could tell he spent time with the Lord weeping for the lost. When he would come out to preach, you could see the tears running down his face. Steve would preach an extraordinarily strong message against sin and declare that folks come repent at the altars if they had sin in their lives. No matter how hard the message was, we knew that Steve had been with the Lord and cared about us because of the compassion he had for the lives of the people. He got it from spending time with the Lord. The anointing was strong and people would run to the altar by the thousands. That is what we need in the US again. Believers that would go into the secret place and weep again for the state of our country and lost souls. When we go, we go out with the compassion the Lord has for the lost. Here is the method I learned. When we go out to pray for someone, we look them in the eyes with tears and tell them not to lie to us. We ask them if they know Jesus, not if they know about him. As Steve would say “religion is hanging around the cross, but Christianity is getting on the cross”. There is a lot of people especially in the US that just want a get out of hell free card and want to live for themselves. We need full surrender to Jesus. That is what the Lord wants! Getting on the cross, dying to self and then having the Lord raise us up! Praise God that is the answer!