People God Uses - Part 3

I found a little booklet while cleaning out the old offices in North Miami. It is entitled "Why God Used D.L. Moody". I was interested in reading it as it was written by R.A. Torrey and is about (obviously) the reasons why this evangelist lived such a powerful life and seeks to find out if God can still work powerfully through people today. I am going to share a section of this book over the next few days....

The third reason God used D.L. Moody was the fact that he was a "deep and practical student of the Bible". Torrey writes that Moody would often rise early in the morning (before anyone else was up) and spend time reading and studying the Scriptures. He writes...

"...if you neglect the one Book that God has given you as the one instrument through which He imparts and exercises His power, you will not have it. You may read many books and go to many conventions....but unless you keep in constant and close association with the one Book, the Bible, you will not have power. And if you ever had power, you will not maintain it except by the daily, earnest, intense study of that Book. Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service."

In talking about the crowds that came to hear Moody, even in the middle of the day during the work week, Torrey writes....

"Because though Mr. Moody knew little about science or philosophy or literature in general, he did know the one Book this old world is perishing to know and longing to know; and this old world will flock to hear men who know the Bible and preach the Bible as they will flock to hear nothing else on earth...oh, men and women, if you wish to get an audience and wish to do that audience some good after you get them, study, study, study the one Book, and preach, preach, preach the one Book, and teach, teach, teach the one Book, the Bible, the only Book that is God's Word, and the only Book that has power to gather and hold and bless the crowds for any great length of time."

Have you read and studied your Bible lately?