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In his autobiography, Charles Finney goes into great detail about his ministry and the many revivals he spearheaded. He gives incredibly valuable details about how he operated in those revivals, the strategies he used to bring them about, his response to the constant controversies surrounding him, and much more. This book is, without a doubt, one of the greatest treasures in church history.

Experience the logic of one of America's most prolific evangelists, brilliant lawyer-turned-preacher Charles Finney (1792-1875). This audio includes performances of two of his famous sermons: "How to Change Your Heart," and "God Cannot Please Sinners."

The great American revivalist Charles Finney, without a doubt, left an enduring impression on Earth. To this day thousands of lives are impacted and transformed by his ministry. He is largely known for the incredible miracles that God worked through him during his ministry years, and many have sought to walk in the same level of power he did. However, Finney was very clear that the only way to walk in any significant level of anointing was through the doorway of prayer. Not dead, formulaic, religious prayers, but deep, intimate time with God; especially the Holy Spirit.

Charles Finney was one of the most influential and powerful ministers throughout the Second Great Awakening during the 1800s. He is most widely known for his incredible revivals, which contain some of the most amazing God stories in modern church history. The most retold of which is on the day when he visited a cotton factory at New York Mills for a simple tour.

For two to be in agreement implies something more than to agree in theory, or in understanding, for we often see persons who agree in theory, but who differ vastly in feeling and practice. Their understandings may embrace the same truth, while their hearts and practice will be very differently affected by them. Saints and sinners often embrace in theory the same religious creed, while it is plain that they differ widely in feeling and practice.

The injunction to seek God's kingdom first, implies that we seek it first in point of time. It should be the first thing attended to. It is not merely to be admitted as of first importance, but should really be put first in point of time. The first thoughts of each morning should be given to it. And whenever God's word, or his providence brings before our mind the invitations or the claims of this kingdom, we are to remember that now is the accepted time.