Finney – An Approving Heart

Charles Grandison Finney was one of the outstanding revivalists of the early nineteenth century.  Shortly after my conversion I started reading Finney’s Revival Lectures. What a powerful treatise on revival. Finney was a trained lawyer who came under conviction from reading Scripture. He noted that most of the law books of his day relied on the Old Testament law. Coming under conviction, Finney would go off into the woods to pray. Even the movement of a little bird caused him to see he was a proud man. Surrendering himself to God as best he knew how, Finney returned to his law office saying to himself, “If I ever am converted I will preach the Gospel.” And that he did.  His preaching was with such power and force that at one place where Finney preached everyone in the congregation fell on their faces before God. Finney later became president of Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio, from 1851 to 1866. There Finney taught his theology students to pray until they were exhausted if necessary, until they received from God.

Here is an interesting thought from Charles Grandison Finney on Prayer. Just click HERE.