I want a place that vibrates with God, vibrates with eternity. One said, "If I lead somebody to Christ on the street, which church should I send him to?" (Sending someone to church today is) like taking a newborn baby and putting it in a refrigerator. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God). Someone asked me, "Do you pray for the dead?" I said, "No, I preach to them!" I think every pew in every church is death row. I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history let's make (some) by the grace of God! He came into the world to make dead men live! Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. to own our emotions? (If not) we're robbing God. ![]() for denying God the right to own our personality. We may call it business or something, but right down in the middle of those things is a rotten word called "covetousness." Paul called it idolatry!ĭavid had one of the most blessed experiences in the world, and the blessedness was that he was miserable about his sin.Īre we sorry for grieving the heart of God. Covetousness! We wrap it up and call it ambition. But never in 25 years had anyone ever confessed to be covetous. He met men and women who have broken every law of God and man with repetition. He said he heard (of) murders, rapes, adultery, and fornication. We've changed the terminology- iniquity is now infirmity wickedness is now weakness devilry is now deficiency.Ī Roman Catholic priest startled us not very long ago by saying that for 25 years he had been sitting in the confessional, listening to the confessions of men and women. We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin. There's one thing we need above everything else it's something we don't talk about these days. Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God. ![]() "Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy" "My main ambition in life is to be on the devil's most wanted list." "The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized within the lifetime of the opportunity." Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising." "The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. "A sinning man stops praying, a praying man stops sinning" "Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?" If weak in prayer, we are weak everywhere." "If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified." Leonard Ravenhill passed on in November 1994. Rather, the next generation builds his sepulcher and writes his biography – as if instinctively and awkwardly to discharge an obligation the previous generation to a large extent ignored. The curious thing is that she seldom tries to pay him while he lives. ![]() To such men as this, the church owes a debt too heavy to pay. ![]() He was a close friend of pastor and writer A. Among others influenced by Ravenhill were Ravi Zacharias, Steve Hill, Bill Gothard, Paul Washer, and David Wilkerson. He regularly taught classes at LDM and was a mentor to the late Keith Green. Ravenhill was educated at Cliff College in England and sat under the ministry of Samuel Chadwick. Things being normal I don’t have far to go." - Leonard Ravenhill People say, 'Can I get you a new candle?' No thank you, that candle is my life I have about 3 inches left on it. "I have a candle on my desk and a candlestick.
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