At the height of WWII RAF Officer Tom Allan, seeking peace and solace for his soul wandered in to a service in London where Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was to preach. Allan spoke of the inauspicious beginning of the service and the earnest, unadorned demeanor of the pastor. As Allan explains, things changed when the word of God was opened and the pastor began to expound the Scriptures.
“Then a curious thing happened. For the next 40 minutes I became completely unconscious of everything except the word that this man was speaking – not his words mark you, but something behind them and in them and through them. I didn’t realize it then, but I had been in the presence of the mystery of preaching, when a man is lost in the message he proclaims.” (The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 258)
Oh! for that unction again in our day! Oh, that God would so visit our services and that His anointing would fall upon me and all who speak His Word in these tumultuous days. May God come in mighty expressions of self-disclosure as His Word is opened, read, and expounded in simple clarity!
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