Oxford Screams - Keith Daniel


"Faith, cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." (Romans 10:17)

"Oh," D.L Moody said, " I’ll never pray to ask God to give me faith again. God told me where to get it! I’d read about six, seven verses of the bible," he says, "in a day. I meditated, but I was held on them, I didn’t go further. And now I just stopped everything. All my running around. All my preparation, everything. I just said, "No – this is what I need now. I don’t need anything else." "I read chapters. I laid down everything in life and I read chapters, and chapters, and chapters. Days, just reading, soaking. And from that time, God began to answer my prayers."

Ah, God took Moody. There was a movement of God across Chicago that had never been seen. Never been seen. He didn’t go "sheep stealing", he wouldn’t bypass a soul, Moody. And suddenly God was working. God took this man to Scotland. And the greatest revival in the history of Scotland came through a man who had a six-grade school level. Moody was taken there. The great John Knox was used, to turn Scotland away from Rome, and the heresies of the Roman Doctrine. But it was Moody, it was Moody that turned the nation to God and the greatest revival that has ever been seen. Do you know what Moody prayed when he stood in Scotland? Can you imagine a man praying this prayer? And God answering it?

He stood in the pulpit and said, "Oh, God! Bring this land back to Thyself, through me." He’s an American man! The first pulpit he stands in Scotland. Praying that prayer - wasn’t that presumptuous? Wasn’t that Presumptuous? Oh no! God swept down from heaven, and across that land from the moment Moody prayed that prayer, and the greatest revival came, that has ever been seen in Scotland. People turning to God across the land. Everywhere just seeking God. As Moody crossed the land, the whole world trembled. The whole world trembled, as they looked at what was happening in Scotland. A land seeking God! And here was the man, Moody.

He then went to Oxford and Cambridge you know. Can you imagine Oxford and Cambridge combining in the Great Hall to hear a man who had a six- grade school level? Ah, they laughed when they heard his American accent. The English didn’t quite like that; they thought it was murdering their accent. Murdering their language. There he stood with a big Bola hat. He wasn’t really the best dressed man on earth. He had this old, shabby type of jacket on. He’s like me – my wife goes through a terrible time to get me to have different clothes. Well, there he stood. Not exactly looking like a great orator – I mean the greatest orators of the world would come to speak to this people, the most privileged students on earth at Oxford and Cambridge in those days, the future leaders of the Empire, the British Empire! And there they sat, and as they heard this man they began to roar with laughter. The roars just came, and the dean, everyone screaming, "Stop this, this is outrageous!" They couldn’t stop laughing. Moody just prayed in his heart for God to come. He raised his voice above all the laughter.

As he stood up there after ten minutes, there was a stunned silence. After a few minutes more there was weeping. A few minutes later, the whole hall, thousands of them, on their faces, screaming – not just crying - screaming for mercy. Why did God use this man and not the great Spurgeon - the greatest preacher that ever lived? Spurgeon stood in there, and t hat never happened with Spurgeon. How does a man with a six-grade education level stand up? Oh you see, one reason. God answered his prayers because he found the source of faith. He stood in his old age, this godly Moody. In the end when the whole world would stagger. The unsaved, in their millions, knew the name Moody. Moody was the name known across the world as the greatest soul-winner alive.

In his old age, Moody said these words: "I attribute everything that God ever did through me, whether to a town, city or nation, to one reason. The faith that came into my heart as I began to soak myself in the Word of God, the source of hope."

Now tell me; how many times have you read through the Bible? Can I ask every one of you to answer God? If you read three chapters a day, in one year, you’re through the Bible once. Just three chapters. Now that would take you fifteen minutes and you have to go pretty slow to not read more. If you haven’t read through the Bible once, this means you didn’t give God three chapters, you didn’t give God fifteen minutes? You wonder why your life is worthless? You wonder why your prayers aren’t answered? You wonder why you have no faith?
Shame on you. I can think of no other word but shame on you.

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