Love Fulfilled Ministry

            Samuel Dickey Gordon was a widely traveled speaker in high demand in the early 1900's. A prolific author, he wrote more than 25 devotional books, most with the phrase " Quiet Talks " in the title. His first book sold half a million copies over 40 years. He was born in Philadelphia August 12, 1859 and died June 1936. A public school education was all the academic training he had. But, as a young man, he was hard working, consecrated and sought the best God had for him. He served as assistant secretary of the Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association in 1884-86. He did so efficiently that he became state secretary for the YMCA in Ohio, serving from 1886 to 1895. In this period he developed a quiet style of devotional speaking which was quite the opposite of the powerful forensics which dominated the pulpit style of that period. E.W. Kenyon said that "S.D. Gordon is a sporadic outburst of divine grace. He is unusua...

   " I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.     Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches ” (Revelation 3:18-22).   Malachi speaks of Christ's coming as a refiner of gold, " He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to Yahweh " (Malachi 3:3). And we know that righteousness comes throu...

“‘ And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams ;" (Acts 2:17). God uses a vision to restate the covenant with Abraham reminding him that he would have a son and be the father of many nations (Genesis 15:1-6). Jacob dreams of a ladder into the heavens where angels ascend and descend; in this dream God promises that Abraham's blessing would be carried on through him (Genesis 28:10-17). Joseph, a famous dreamer and interpreter of dreams in the Bible, has his first recorded dream in Genesis 37 and he interprets dreams for the Pharaohs in Genesis 40-41. Samuel, the prophet, first dream was as a young boy; it was message and he was faithful in delivering the message (1 Samuel 3). God placed Daniel in a position of power and influence in the Persian Kingdom through interpreting dreams (Daniel 2: 4). This is con...