William J. Seymour Quotes

       William J. Seymour
       1870-1922
      
       William Joseph Seymour was an African American minister, and an initiator of the Pentecostal religious movement. Seymour not only rejected the existing racial barriers in favor of "unity in Christ", he also rejected the then almost-universal barriers to women in any form of church leadership. This revival meeting extended from 1906 until 1909, and became the subject of intense investigation by more mainstream Protestants.
      
       Some felt that Seymour's views were heresy, while others accepted his teachings and returned to their own congregations to expound them. The resulting movement became widely known as "Pentecostalism". While there had been similar manifestations in the past, the current worldwide Pentecostal and charismatic movements are generally agreed to have been in part outgrowths of Seymour's ministry and the Azusa Street Revival.

There are many wells today, but they are dry. There are many hungry souls today that are empty. But let us come to Jesus and take Him at His Word and we will find wells of salvation, and be able to draw waters out of the well of salvation, for Jesus is that well.     Topics: Jesus, Contentment Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.     Topics: Justification, Renewal The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.     Topics: Power, Love Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.     Topics: Salvation Sanctification makes us pure in heart.     Topics: Sanctification Any man that is saved and sanctified can feel the fire burning in his heart, when he calls on the name of Jesus.     Topics: Sanctification Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter than snow. Bless His holy name!     Topics: Sanctification The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business.     Topics: Satan Let us honor the blood of Jesus Christ every moment of our lives, and we will be sweet in our souls.     Topics: The Cross I can say, through the power of the Spirit, that wherever God can get a people that will come together in one accord and one mind in the Word of God, the baptism of the Holy Ghost will fall upon them, like as at Cornelius' house.     Topics: Unity, Holy Spirit So many today are worshiping in the mountains, big churches, stone and frame buildings. But Jesus teaches that salvation is not in these stone structures--not in the mountains--not in the hills, but in God.     Topics: Worship