The Story of God's Mighty Acts

Spurgeon urges believers to remember and retell the great works God has done—from the Red Sea to Pentecost—so that past wonders might stir present expectation. He recounts how God overthrew Pharaoh, routed Sennacherib, and empowered early Christians so that within a century “the gospel had been preached in every nation,” and then traces later revivals through Chrysostom, Luther, Calvin, the Lollards, and the explosive ministries of Whitefield and Wesley, when “England was permeated with evangelical truth.” Spurgeon emphasizes that God’s greatest works are often sudden, overwhelming movements of the Spirit, such as the revival at Cambuslang or the contemporary awakening in Belfast, where even “the lowest and vilest men” were struck with deep conviction and transformed. He notes that God typically uses insignificant instruments—a David, a Luther, a Whitefield—and always honors great faith and great prayer, pointing to the American revival that began with one man praying alone in a hired room. Finally, Spurgeon challenges his hearers to reject the idea that such wonders belong only to the past, insisting that God is unchanged and urging them to praise Him for former mercies and to plead earnestly for a fresh outpouring of the Spirit in their own day.Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on July 17th, 1859.