Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill, Revival God’s Way
Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”
“No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.”
“A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.”
“Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy. ”
“The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.”
“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don’t even have the strength to turn off your TV?”
“There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.”
“Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.”
“If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?”
“You can’t live wrong and pray right.”
“When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it legalism.”
“The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”
“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”
“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF…my GOD.”
“But you know if God should stamp eternity or even judgment on our eyeballs, or if you’d like on the fleshy table of our hearts I am quite convinced we’d be a very, very different tribe of people, God’s people, in the world today. We live too much in time, we’re too earth bound. We see as other men see, we think as other men think. We invest our time as the world invests it. We’re supposed to be a different breed of people. I believe that the church of Jesus Christ needs a new revelation of the majesty of God. We’re all going to stand one day, can you imagine it- at the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for the deeds done in the body. This is what- this is the King of kings, and He’s the Judge of judges, and it’s the Tribunal of tribunals, and there’s no court of appeal after it. The verdict is final.”
“Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”
“There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.”
“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”
“LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!”
“Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?”
“Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the “exceeding greatness of God’s power to us.”
“The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.”
“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”
“If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.”
“Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.”
“The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.”
“One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour – the church, the true Church.”
“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed).”
“If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!”
“Who or what takes priority over God in our lives?”
“The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm?”
“if we will do God’s work in God’s way at God’s time with God’s power, we shall have God’s blessing”
“The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.”
“The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.”
“The evangelists today are very often prepared to be anything to anybody as long as they can get somebody to the altar for something. They glibly call out: ‘‘Who wants help? Who wants more power? Who wants a closer walk with God?’’ Such a sinning, repenting ‘‘easy believeism’’ dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone!”
“Sodom, which had no Bible, no preachers, no tracts, no prayer meetings, no churches, perished. How then will America and England be spared from the wrath of the Almighty, think you? We have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers—and yet what sin!”
“A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.”
“Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity’s values in view?”
“there is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.”
“Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.”
“Today God is bypassing men—not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks!”
“Preacher brethren, this is the time to blush that we have no shame, the time to weep for our lack of tears, the time to bend low that we have lost the humble touch of servants, the time to groan that we have no burden, the time to be angry with ourselves that we have no anger over the devil’s monopoly in this ‘‘end time’’ hour, the time to chastise ourselves that the world can so easily get along with us and not attempt to chastise us.”
“If Christ waited to be anointed before He went to preach, no young man ought to preach until he, too, has been anointed by the Holy Ghost. —F. B. MEYER”
“We are not Protestants any more—just ‘‘non-Catholics’’! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.”
“To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied,”
“Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God’s view to us.”
“John the Baptist’s training was in God’s University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.”
“Oh that believers would become eternity-conscious! If we could live every moment of every day under the eye of God, if we did every act in the light of the judgment seat, if we sold every article in the light of the judgment seat, if we prayed every prayer in the light of the judgment seat, if we tithed all our possessions in the light of the judgment seat, if we preachers prepared every sermon with one eye on damned humanity and the other on the judgment seat—then we would have a Holy Ghost revival that would shake this earth and that, in no time at all, would liberate millions of precious souls.”
“Unctionized by the Spirit’s might, John cried, ‘‘Repent!’’ And they did! Repentance is not a few hot tears at the penitent form. It is not emotion or remorse or reformation. Repentance is a change of mind about God, about sin, and about hell!”
“Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.”
“Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal”
“We have not yet resisted unto blood in prayer; nay, we ‘‘do not even get a sweat on our souls,’’ as Luther put it. We pray with a ‘‘take-it-or-leave-it’’ attitude; we pray chance prayers; we offer that which costs us nothing! We have not even ‘‘strong desire.’’ We rather are fitful, moody, and spasmodic. The only power that God yields to is that of prayer. We will write about prayer-power, but not fight while in prayer.”
“It has been well said that there are only three classes of people in the world today: those who are afraid, those who do not know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.”
“The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.”
“And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction—and whatsoever else there be of self—must die.”
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“God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. —F. LINCICOME”
“The tragedy of this late hour is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.”
“The secret of praying is praying in secret.”
“Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.”
“When the hammer of logic and the fire of human zeal fail to open the stony heart, unction will succeed.”
“Almost every Bible conference majors on today’s Church being like the Ephesian Church. We are told that, despite our sin and carnality, we are seated with Him. Alas, what a lie! We are Ephesians all right; but, as the Ephesian Church in the Revelation, we have ‘‘left our first love!’’ We appease sin—but do not oppose it. To such a cold, carnal, critical, care-cowed Church, this lax, loose, lustful, licentious age will never capitulate. Let us stop looking for scapegoats. The fault in declining morality is not radio or television. The whole blame for the present international degeneration and corruption lies at the door of the Church!”
“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed). The fact beats ceaselessly into my brain these”
“At this grim hour, the world sleeps in the darkness, and the Church sleeps in the light;”
“How many Christians there are who cannot pray, and who seek by effort, resolve, joining prayer circles, etc., to cultivate in themselves the ‘‘holy art of intercession,’’ and all to no purpose. Here for them and for all is the only secret of a real prayer life—‘‘Be filled with the Spirit,’’ who is ‘‘the Spirit of grace and supplication.’’ —REV. J. STUART HOLDEN”
“Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him. —JAMESGILMOUR OF MONGOLIA”
“True preaching is the sweating of blood. —DR. JOSEPH PARKER”
“Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him.”
“Yearly we use mountains of paper and rivers of ink reprinting dead men’s brains, while the living Holy Ghost is seeking for men to trample underfoot their own learning, deflate their inflated ego,”
“The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. The prayer meeting is dead or dying. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. What church ever asks its candidating ministers what time they spend in prayer? Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.”
“Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him. —J”
The fact that all men are judgment-bound is the most sobering thought I know.
It seems to me we are advertising and advocating a Christianity that has the colour but not the character of the real thing. Anything in the spiritual life that savours of discipline or of really “taking up the cross” is termed legalism and is despised.
God-hungry men find God.
Without question, the greatest need of this hour is that the church shall meet her ascended Lord again, and get an enduement that would usher in the revival of revivals just before the night of nights settles over this age of incomparable corruption.
The Spirit comes upon praying people.
An old mystic once said, “There are only two places for God’s people –in the dust and in heaven”.
God pity us that we have swung from the Upper Room with its fire to the church with the supper room and its smoke.
God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church-age since Pentecost.
The chair of the prophet of the Lord is vacant.
Pale, pathetic, palliating preaching must go. The pulpit never needed voices more that it does at this hour.
Easy-going preachers produce easy-going believers. We have more star preachers that scarred preachers.
The Word helps the suffering as a as a mother hugs a weeping child; but it also slaps us in the face.
No good can come out of evil men and evil plans.
Revival is worthwhile at any price.
We are all as spiritual as we want to be.
No nation is better than its church, and no church is better than its people. Only God-transformed personalities can change the moral fibre of the nation.
The answer to militant godlessness is militant godliness.
I fear cheap emotionalism. I also fear not to have emotion. The man who has no emotion is an animal or a Hitler. I fear the Christian who has no emotion –his soul needs a tombstone.
It is far easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.
The world boasts its atomic power; some cults boast their satanic power; but where are those who boast Holy Ghost power?
I believe the failure stems back to our poverty in prayer.
It is my solemn conviction that the most glorious hour of the church has yet to be born. All the heroes of faith have not yet been listed. All the chapters of the church, “fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners”, have not yet been written. The greatest exploits of faith have yet to be done.
Are we Christians playing on the lawn while men perish? This go-to-church-once-a-week-and-pay-your-tithes-and-sing-in-the-choir Christianity is a farce, if that is the limit of our Christian service and the extent of our passion for souls.
We will learn to pray, I am sure, for God will see to that. He is not concerned about our happiness but about our holiness.
Because of Hannah’s silent prayer Eli thought she “had been drunken”. If you get Spirit-intoxicated about revival, if you get to the place where there is little relish for food, somebody is going to start jeering.
We need prayer to obtain victory and then prayer to maintain victory.
The prayer meeting is a prayer meeting. The fact that far too many churches are combining the prayer meeting with a Bible study is the church’s self-acknowledged prayer weakness. In short, the church is saying that it cannot hold out in prayer, so it fills in the time with Bible study.
Without prayer we cannot live the Christian life.
The place where the Christian stops to refuel is prayer.
These days we are spiritually so subnormal that to be just normal (according to the New Testament pattern) seems to make us abnormal.
If God were to commission angels to serve Him down here, heaven would be empty of angels in five minutes. But God wants men! He wants obedient men, broken men, weeping men, resolute men –men strong in courage, men strong in will, men of ability, men of durability.
Prayerlessness is sin.
When preachers lack unction, no one is fooled. That preacher has not gone far who, after he has ministered the Word, needs the back slap of friends or the stimulant of others’ flattery in order to “feel good”. The preacher who is elated over human praise for his preaching will sink under human criticism. This proves that he is walking in the flesh. A pastor can be inexpressibly happy after preaching a word from heaven even if his congregation storms at him.
The preacher must pray. It is not that he can pray or that he could pray but that he must pray if he intends to have a spiritual church. There is no other way to power but by prayer.
A praying preacher is never envious of another man whose pulpit mastery exceeds his own. He glories that another can explain the way of the Lord more perfectly and glue the ears of a shifty congregation to the Word of the living God.
We preachers must teach prayer; if we do not, we are unfaithful ministers of the New Testament. But we must do more than teach prayer; we must teach it by practicing it.
It is my solemn conviction that if a man is a preacher, he can be nothing else.
Praying is something we love or we loathe. There is hardly a middle course. Reading one hundred expositions about prayer will never equal one vital experience of prayer.
No man is greater than his prayer life.
Revival must not be just a once-a-week concern in the midweek church prayer meeting. Would any girl become an opera singer by practicing once a week? No! She must give herself to singing.
Prayer is another way of telling God that we have all confidence in Him but no confidence in our own native powers. Neglect of prayer is an effrontery to God, for by it we are saying that we have confidence in the flesh and can operate the spiritual life on a do-it-yourself basis. Strong men (self-strong) neglect prayer, or sometimes slight or ignore it, and therefore show their self-esteem and their near-independence of divine help. But weak men cry to God, because God’s strength is guaranteed to be made perfect in their weakness.
Dear reader, do you and I realize that we are just one heartbeat from a fixed state of reward, by it of joy or shame?
Our churches are more air-conditioned than prayer-conditioned.
Feelings or no feelings, we must pray.
There has never been a time since the Calvary-Pentecost birth of the church that she was not a conscious minority surrounded by an arrogant militant paganism.
There is but one way to save this generation. It is the way of the Christ, and the outpouring of the Holy Ghost.
Preacher, to no other man on earth does God give such an awesome task as to you. You trade in eternal things. Yours is a calling that angels might envy. To you is given a power that hell fears above all other powers on earth. You are a divine delegate, a God-endued ambassador, a plenipotentiary.
I believe the Christ who cleansed the Temple in the days of His flesh would, without question, cleanse the pulpit if He were here right now.
Who is spending more per annum on dog food than on propagation of the Gospel?
To me it is a shocking commentary on present Christian feebleness that while, in the first century, 120 men could move from an upper-room closet and shake Jerusalem, nowadays 120 churches claiming a like experience of the Holy Spirit can be in one of our cities and yet that city at large hardly know they are there.
Preacher, let’s all take a day off and examine ourselves, whether we be in the apostolic succession or not.
Shun that abomination, a book of sermon outlines. If God inspired that preacher who wrote the book, why cannot He inspire you?
We seem to this hour be as far removed from apostolic Christianity as the pope is from marriage. We are strangers from the commonwealth of the divine power of Pentecost.
The answer to our dilemma is not a new revelation from heaven. The answer is seeking the old paths and digging out the old wells which superior knowledge, human pride and flat disobedience have stopped up.
Do I handle the other person as though he were Jesus Christ in disguise?
Once again in many parts of the earth, the Word of the Lord is being blamed, burned or banned. History is repeating itself. But God’s Word is imperishable and infallible. Even in this super-scientific age we have no apologies to make for the Bible. It is God’s final word to man. It is at the present God’s only word to man. It is an infallible revelation from an infallible God to fallible man.
Has great preaching died? Is soul-hot preaching a lost art? Have we conceded to the impatient modern snack-bar sermons, spiced with humour to edge jaded spiritual appetites? Do we endeavour to bring the “power of the world to come” into every meeting?
Weakness in the pew may be because of wickedness in the pulpit.
I am increasingly convinced that tears are an integral part of revival preaching.
Pentecost meant pain, and we have so much pleasure. Pentecost meant burden, and we love ease. Pentecost meant prison, and most of us would do anything rather than get there for Christ’s dear sake. Pentecost re-lived would get many of us in jail.
Remember, what the apostle Paul said, "but test (or prove) everything; hold fast what is good!" (1 Thes 5:21 ESV)
Christians should not be afraid of investigating for the truth.
Remember as well, Eph6:12 For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age. These forces are running and ruining our world. They are in control of governments, industries and most people. You have to deal with this fact. Why hide the flat earth. Because Satan wants evolution and needs this spinning ball thing flying through space. He can't have people knowing there is a firmament over a motionless flat earth. That screams God made it. So he brain washes the people into believing a lie and we all bought the lie. This proves how effective Satan is at deceiving the nations. He has deceived even you and me. But God will allow us to see through Satan's lies if we will read and study His Word and observe His creation. Creation screams of the glory of God.
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