Anahiem Talk on Revival — Leonard Ravenhill

Nils has been here for several weeks now. Leonard's been preaching four and five times a week, and it's been wonderful. It's been glorious. Prayer meeting attendance, which we thought was good to begin with, is up four to five times now.

It's numbered, and the meetings have gone, extended now for several hours, some of them, as the Spirit of God has been wooing and stirring and ministering to us. The idea for Leonard's coming here was given to me by the Holy Spirit.

I had heard of him before. I'd read of two books, I believe, one of them on the wide revival of Therese and one several years before that. And I knew of him from various and sundry places, but I'd never met him.

And this last year, I had an opportunity to meet him while in Kansas City and to go to lunch with him. And as we were sitting there, the Lord said to my heart, this is a treasure, and I want to pour it out among you.

So I blurted out, hey, could you come and see us for a few months? Fully expecting him to say no. And within hours, he came back and said, yes, I can, and it'll be a very important meeting. And so we've lived with that excitement in our souls for the last few months, waiting for him to come.

There's many things I could say about him that would probably embarrass him. We've learned to love him not only as a preacher and a man who has fire in his bones, but as a friend. His tenderness to us privately is just beyond belief.

His fierceness when he gets behind a microphone is also beyond belief. Somewhere between the two places is the man, I think, and we've learned to love him. Let's welcome Brother Leonard Ravenhill.

A friend that says I'm fierce, what do my enemies say? I want to, first of all, thank God for putting in the heart of John to have this conference, and secondly, that he obeyed the Lord, and thirdly, that he had the wisdom to call me.

I was just saying to Carol there, you know, if anybody ever says to me, do you believe Jesus fed the 5 ,000, I'll say, well, John Wimber did it. Today there are many, many versions of the Bible. My son David says there are ten versions.

Five are wise and five are foolish. You know, the Bible says do things decently in order. I don't see anybody decent around here. So why should I wear a tie? So now you can tell people you were there when I got rid of my bondage.

I'm going to read a scripture from the NIV version. Just a minute, just a minute. The NIV is the never-improved King James. I'm like the old lady in England. She said it was good enough for the Apostle Paul, so it's good enough for me.

Isaiah’s Vision of Holiness, Cleansing, and Commission

Okay, the prophet Isaiah. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims, each one had six wings.

With train or with two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet and with two did he fly. And one cried unto another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory.

And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that spoke. Him that cried in the house was filled with smoke. Then said I was me, for I am undone. For I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.

For mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me with the life full in his hand, which he had taken with the tongue from off the altar. And he laid upon my mouth and said, Lo, this has touched thy lips.

Thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me. And he said, Go. There are three simple words.

They're very simple, verses 5, 7 and 9. They're so simple you can remember them even if you've been to college. In verse 5, the word Lo. In verse 7, the word Lo. And in verse 9, the word Go. The first is the word of a man.

The second is the word of a seraphim. And the third is the word of God. The first is the word of confession. Woe is me. The second is the word of cleansing. Lo, this has touched thy lips. And the third is the word of commission.

Go. Tell you college people something else. If you have a notebook, put it down. If not, get the tape. Because I want to tell you, there are 66 books in the Bible. Did you get that? There are also 66 chapters in Isaiah.

The Old Testament has 39 books, so that's the main division in the Scripture. The first 39 chapters in Isaiah divide the books. In chapters 1 to 39, there are no less than 12 references to the holiness of God.

Then from the 40th chapter to 66, there are 17 references to the holiness of God. This Scripture is very carefully dated for us. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. I don't know, but many of the scholars tell us that Isaiah and Uzziah were very close friends.

And that Isaiah was a kind of aristocrat in his generation. But there's a crisis in his life. In the year that King Uzziah died, he saw the Lord. The one obstruction to him seeing the Lord was his closest friend.

The closest business partner was his chief blockage, if you like, for him seeing the King in his beauty. If you want to get a slight rundown on the life of Uzziah, we find it here in the 26th chapter of the second book of Chronicles.

Uzziah’s Prosperity, Pride, and Judgment

I'll just skip through it very quickly here. Two Chronicles, chapter 26 and verse 1. Then the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 15 years old, and made him king in the room of his father. Now that's very interesting, isn't it?

I mean, what's your 15-year-old doing, apart from collecting baseball cards? Here is a man at 15 years, a boy at 15 years of age, who has to take command of a great nation, a very, very powerful nation.

I guess in our day we'd call this boy a whiz kid, because everything he did was, he turned to prosperity. He took over the economy, and it began to blossom as it had never blossomed before. He took over agriculture, and that came to its greatest peak in the period when he was in authority.

Then he went and took over the military. And we have a description here of the army. Let's read verse 5 here. He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God. And as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.

Verse 7 says, God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gebeiah. Verse 8 says, the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah, and his name spread abroad even to the entry of Egypt.

Verse 10 tells us how he digged towers, irrigated the country, made everything that he touched just come to perfection in due course. In verse 12 it says, the number of the chiefs of the fathers of the mighty men of Galilee were 2 ,600.

In the next verse it gives you the number of people, 207 ,000 that were fighting for him. Verse 15, he made in Jerusalem engines invented by cunning men to be put on the towers. In other words, there were huge catapults, and they hurled great big rocks and crushed the wooden walls of the cities that they attacked.

So everything on every level is getting on fine. But then something happened. He made in Jerusalem engines invented by cunning men to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and great stones withal.

And his name spread far abroad, for he was marvelously held until he was strong. But when he became strong, his heart lifted up to destruction. You know, many, more people can stand adversity than can stand prosperity.

Everything this man has, his powers are fabulous. His name is known to the then known world as a genius. On every level, he's never fallen flat on his face. It seems like the scripture, everything that he doeth shall prosper.

But then suddenly a little thing came into his heart, a thing that we call pride and self-confidence. When man comes in like that, God goes out. But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to destruction.

He transgressed against the Lord his God. And he said, look, I took over the economy, I took over education, I took over the army, I took over everything, and so I'm the man you need. I'm the man in authority, and I'm going to take over ministry.

He knew very well the dangers about that. And it says in Israel 16, his soul was lifted up to destruction. He transgressed against the Lord his God and went into the temple, and the Lord burned incense on the altar.

Now look at this, Azariah the priest went in after him with four school priests, 81 people, 81 strong men tried to stop him. In my opinion, this man's demon possessed. How can he fight single-handedly 81 men that are going to stop him from getting to the altar?

But that demon power in him overcame, and he went forward, and he started doing the job. And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him four school priests of the Lord, who were valiant men, and they tried to restrain him.

Then verse 19 says, Uzziah was wroth. He had a fence in his hand to burn incense, and while he was wroth, the priest's leprosy covered him, overcame him, and so he was defiled. There's a very fascinating part of history.

The Majesty of God Versus Human Power

One of the great Caesars, we have a city in England where the Caesars live in models, Julius Caesar, Tiberius Caesar, all the other Caesars live in the town. And the best known, I suppose, is Julius Caesar.

When Julius Caesar was in his prime, he had a man by the name of Pompey, who was a superior general, and they became very contentious and envious of each other. And so, the best thing that Julius Caesar could do was ship this man to a far country, and that happened to be the other end of the Mediterranean, and so he sent this fellow Pompey there.

And when he arrived, Pompey arrived, true to his name, pompously. Soldiers got off their boats, they had wonderful horses with saddlecloths, you know, you see the old style in England, where the saddlecloths come down to their knees, these beautiful horses.

And the soldiers had helmets, and everything stunned them. They took him around the town to show him what Jerusalem was, they pointed various historic places to him. Then finally he said, what's that building?

Oh, they said, you can't go near that. You're regarded as a heathen. He said, no, I'm one of the most powerful men in the world. No, you can't go near to it. Why not? Because God is there. God? We had hundreds of gods in Rome.

What god is this? Name that god. And they told him it was Jehovah God. He made heaven and earth, he hung the stars in the sky, he put the light there, he governs everything. This is the God, Lord, God Almighty.

As we would say, God immortal, invisible, God only wise, in light, inaccessible, hid from our eyes. This man was furious. I have a right to go in there, you can't go in there. Well, he said, tomorrow afternoon I shall enter that temple.

And they said, you won't. So he came down Main Street there in all his panoply and all his soldiers. Behind him 2 ,000 people. This fellow was actually going, Pompey was going to the temple, and people made a barrier that they were crushed down by the horses.

And they said, you can't go in there. That's dangerous. God is there. Do you know it's dangerous here tonight because God is here? Do you know God's going to plunder this place tonight? Do you know this one meeting is going to reach the ends of the earth?

People say to me sometimes, Rainhill, you've wasted your time. I've prayed for revival 66 years. You're wasting your time. God's finished with our generation. America's had more life than a nation in the world.

She has more Bible schools. She has more printing presses. She has more broadcasts every day. God's through. My rebuttal to that is this, and I say this with anger. I say, listen, when I was a boy and years back, even before that, the population of the world was 5 million.

That's at the time when most of the great mission societies were launched, when the world was a family of only 5 million people, and God loved it. Are you telling me that God doesn't love the world now it's 5 billion people?

The situation is a thousand times more difficult, a thousand times more challenging. I don't know when this army of, what do you call it now, Joel's Army is going to start, but I'll tell you what. Remember, it's an army.

It's not a picnic. It's not a tea party. It's a warfare. I think we're going to move into a situation that's never been done in the history of the world, that God's going to raise up His men. This man goes barging into the temple, and he refused to be driven back.

But when he got there, he was spinned by leprosy. He came as Dr., I was going to say Dr. Choser. Dr. Criswell is one of the great old guys. He's like me. He's pretty old. So he's very good. He has a little paperback book on the prophecy of Isaiah, which I think is very beautiful.

And I looked it up on this chapter, and he says, here is this arrogant man coming. I have military power. I have money. I have the Roman Empire behind me. Who is God? I'll show you what I can do. Again, as he goes in, they stand against him.

He comes sweeping through the outside part of the temple. There's a very brilliant young man here, knows all the Jewish traditions and whatnot. I'll check with you after, Mike. If I'm wrong, don't say anything.

The good old doctor says, this panoply, this great display of power that had never been seen in that part of the world. They'd never seen men with breastplates and plumes. They'd never seen men on horseback.

They'd never seen all this panoply. And they stood aghast to see, coming down the street, moving towards the sacred place. And then he says, Pompey came through the outer court of the Gentiles. Then he came to the court of Israel.

Then he came to the court of women. And then he came, as he says, to the courts of priests. He came to the division in the temple. What's the first place? The holy place. Went a bit further. Broke his way through there.

Came to the holy of holies where the curtain, how thick was it? Six inches? Something like that. And there's that tremendous curtain. I don't see anything different here. These different courts mean nothing to me.

No. God is behind that shield of a curtain. The Holy One. Elsewhere, you remember, He's called a fan loft to an inhabited eternity. And this arrogant man says, I don't care. There's nothing sacred to me.

I'm going in there. I've come all this way. And I must see your God. You can't go in. He dwells in light. If you step into His presence, you'll go blind with the Shekinah glory. If you get in there, you'll be the most uncomfortable you've ever been in your life.

The majesty of God is there. But it's still persisted, and he went in. He comes through the outer court. There was nothing. The Gentile court, Israel's court, and what not. Now he comes up against this barrier, just one great big curtain.

And behind it, God Almighty lives. So finally, He told men, you take your swords and cut through there. I'm going in. And they pulled the curtain on one side, and he was pitched out. And he burst into anger.

He screamed. You lied to me. You told me He was blinding light and it's darkness. You told me a living God is there. There's nobody there. You liars. Your gods have no more power than my God. I translate that this way.

We went to a church a few years ago to preach. We told the big shots came over from England. And the church was 35 acres of land. There were tennis courts, and I don't know what kind of courts were there.

And I visualized, instead of this brilliant young military man coming here into the temple of old, some young people in America come. They come to the outside. They pass the tennis courts. They pass the volleyball court.

They pass all the tennis courts and everything. And finally, they come into the temple, and they say, where is your God? Is that what people are asking today? Where is the Lord God, Elijah? The prayer meetings this week have been terrible.

The first week, I thought they were good. The second week, they got better. But this week, there's been despair. I believe this meeting is historic. There's never been a meeting in American history like this.

There have never been millions of prayers. There have never been tens of thousands of people who are fasting in different parts of the world for this week. It's too late to delay any longer. We've waited too long.

We need to see the salvation of our God. People have been praying all that thou wouldst render heavens. Last Friday morning, we had a prayer meeting. There were two women there, one praying. And I thought, I would like to pray after that.

The majesty of God was there. I would like to pray. Another woman prayed after that, and it was terrible to listen to. I went home. I said to Martha, I haven't heard praying like this since the revivals in 1930.

That's 60 years ago. What is God's mercy? Then we went to the prayer meeting at the end of the day, Friday night. We weren't trying to beat the cart, but we prayed until almost midnight. I think it was Friday night, was it?

And suddenly a man, about half-past eleven, stood up. I'd never heard a man in 50 years with holy anger. He was just blasting the powers of the devil. Why is the devil running loose in America? Why are our girls, before they get to women, their girls giving birth to girls?

Why are our boys captivated by lust and drink? And so he went on, and there was a holy anger there. I fully expected a flash of lightning from eternity. You see, there's this consuming desire. Let me tell you, nakedly, because I have a very rough voice, this is my friend says, I have to live up to my reputation tonight.

The first week, one young man said this, Oh God, if this thing that we have is Christianity, it's a pitiable thing. Such a thing that after Gethsemane, after Jesus had gone to hell and back, if it were, after he shattered death and brought life to them and talented to life, and delegated to us in cherubims, but he's delegated to us authority over all the power of the enemy.

I don't care what disease or diabolical disorder the mind has, Jesus Christ, truncate it, whatever was brought into the world by the first Adam was answered by the last Adam. There wasn't a second Adam.

It was a second Adam if you have a third and a fourth. But the last Adam did the job. A telling moment that Jesus rose from the dead. There was panic in hell. I like to think, thank you, now follow your father.

You know that the greatest, one of the greatest operas, I call them operas, that was ever presented was, what was it, Verdi's Aida. And he celebrated in the great theater, the La Scala, in Milan, Italy.

When he finished, the character, you know, that's dead, laid out, and he was supposed to be dead, the whole place went shrieking mad. They shouted, they whistled, they clapped. At 11 o 'clock at night, they were still there at 1, they were still there at 2, they were still there at 3, they were still there at 4, shouting, Verdi, Verdi, Verdi.

Unbelief, the Resurrection, and the Majesty of Christ

You know, the most awful thing in America tonight is not sin. As we think of it, drunkenness and abolition, I believe the greatest hindrance in the world tonight is unbelief. We do not believe God. And that's what he asked of us.

The disciples didn't believe the Lord Jesus Christ. If they believed Him, they'd have been lining up at the tomb. But they weren't lining up at the tomb. They were far, far away. I think the most amazing thing and disgusting thing in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ was that morning when He woke up from the resurrection, there wasn't a single person there to meet Him.

He told them over and over again, I'm going to rise from the dead. But they just ignored Him. But He rose. And I believe it was then that Psalm 45 was shouted by millions of angels in heaven, Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be lifted up, ye everlasting doors, for the King of glory shall come in.

We have to recapture the majesty of Jesus Christ. I quoted this morning in the early prayer meeting, John Wesley, Charles Wesley said, all for a trumpet voice and all the world to call. But then he followed that by saying, My heart is full of Christ and longs this glorious message to declare.

He didn't say, My head's full of theology. Over and over again in his wonderful diary, John Wesley said, I went to London, or I went to Birmingham, or I went to Manchester, and I offered them Christ. He didn't offer them forgiveness.

He didn't offer them pardon. He didn't offer them peace. He didn't offer them wealth. He said, I offer you Christ. Christ is in charity as your Lord and your Master to direct and control your life. Christ in you, the hope of glory.

We're stacked up with theology today, but where is the living Christ? Expect this place to rock in the power of God this week. Let's go back a minute here to Isaiah chapter 6. I call him Isaiah, or whatever you want to call him.

Isaiah, good English. In Isaiah, let's take these divisions which are automatic. In verse 5, the word wall. In verse 7, the word low. And in verse 9, the word go. The first is the word of a man. The second is the word of confession.

And the third is the word of cleansing. Here you have a threefold vision. Vision is almost the greatest dynamic in the world. Here's a threefold vision. Get it? Verse 5, wall. Verse 7, low. Verse 9, go.

Here you have a vision of deity. Isaiah saw the Lord. Hi. Here you have a vision of depravity because he saw inside himself. Here you have a vision of duty because he saw a lost world. Upward vision of holiness.

An inward vision of helplessness. A world outside in hopelessness. And the only answer to it is a revelation of God. You can have a vision without a task, you'll be a visionary. If you have a task without a vision, that's drudgery.

But if you have a vision with a task, that makes you a mystery. The greatest bundle of people that ever lived lived in the world at this moment. Five billion people, that's never been before in the history of the world.

So I need a threefold vision. One of the Jewish scholars, they call him Dr. Butch Basin. He wrote a wonderful commentary on Isaiah. You know, we have some wonderful people in the world today. We have people that walk on the bottom of the ocean.

They've discovered 400 million dollars in gold off the coast of California. Someday we'll be after them to tithe. And they have 400 million dollars. And on our TV, show these men walking around finding dollars and everything, put them in a bag.

We've got men walking on the bottom of the ocean. We've got men that walk on the moon. But we need men that walk with God. And that's exactly what prophets do. Butch Basin says this awesome thing. You talk about the prophet, he says the prophet by the very nature of his calling is a tragic figure.

Because he has a reckless devotion to God and he has a broken heart over a lost world. Where are the prophets today? The prophet suffers for the people, he suffers with the people, he suffers by the people.

There's no shortcut for a prophet. A prophet is an abomination in the sight of men. A prophet, the man who tends to be a prophet, he's going to be a true prophet of God. He better get ready to get out of this world.

Because this world has won him. The greatest prophet that ever lived was Jesus. The holiest, purest man that let the world come to life with him. Why in God's name do you expect better treatment from this lousy world than he got?

Are you holier? It brutalized him from the moment he came into the world. I fell into that. The prophet suffers for the people, he suffers with the people, and he suffers by the people. In the years that King Uzziah died, you see, Isaiah had been captivated by this political genius.

This man that transformed the whole nation. He brought his daughter's poverty into riches. People have said, let's get the right men in Washington. Dear God, they can't even run Washington, never mind run the church.

Half of them are thieves. We have two of the most prominent men in the country, in our state. Mr. Wright had the third highest position in the government. And he lost it all. What was his senator? I've forgotten his name now.

Towers. I don't remember the name, Wright. I was only five foot one. He didn't count. But these men, they say, if we get the right men. God never intended that godly men should run this world. We can't even run the church, God help us.

Our glory has departed. Our authority has departed. The people in the world laugh at the church. We're about as strong against the tide of iniquity that's pouring over the world just now. We're about as strong as the, what do you call it?

What's the stuff that blows about in the wind? No. When you're going out. Tumbleweed. You should be disgusted. It took an Englishman to describe it. Tumbleweed blows here, blows there, goes up, goes down.

The church is like that. He said in 1500 that when Jesus revealed himself to him in a vision one night, he went to pray and he said at exactly half past ten, Jesus came in person and spoke to him and said, when I hung on the cross I was thinking of you.

And he says from that very moment until Jesus comes back again, he's been weeping in heaven. I don't believe he's weeping over abortion. I don't believe he's weeping over drunkenness. I don't believe he's weeping over broken families with divorce.

I believe he's weeping over his church. He's left us rich as we don't know. He's left us strange as we've never thought of. We're so content looking at a few lousy things. Is it almost embarrassing to say that Christ lives in us when the devil's running the whole show outside?

Isn't it ridiculous to say grace is hidden in us? Somebody said the other day, you know what, the scripture says, in the last days, Daniel says, the people who know their God should be strong and do exploits.

Dear Lord, we don't even know our Bibles, never mind God. Exploits? Do exploits? I guarantee that 99 of you men here that watch the wretched game, what was it, in the toilet bowl? No, in the, was it sugar bowl?

What was it called? Well, I forgot it now. Oh, Super Bowl, thank you. You talk about doing exploits. You need enough strength to turn the thing off. Let me tell you what I thought of today, very classical, of course.

You know what the TV is in most homes? It's their life support. If you pull that plug, you'll kill the family. The kids will go mad. They throw the sugar basin at you. They throw the milk jug at you. They throw everything.

It's their life support. It's tragic, it's true and it's tragic. But I'll tell you what, when the love of God is shattered on in our hearts, we won't need entertainment. Joy is greater than entertainment.

You don't have to remember what the Hollywood milking the wretched cow over there every day. In a year, the king of Uzziah died. This man has had his vision obstructed by success and triumph. I say again, as long as he had success and was able to control it, okay, but more people fall through success than through failure.

When we're in failure, we struggle. We were talking that last Saturday. We had a wonderful meeting, I thought, last night, because Jacqueline was talking, I did a bit, but we had a wonderful meeting. And I believe that, you know, when people say, you know, I go into some meetings, I get into condemnation.

You don't. The man who has faith never gets into condemnation. He pipes out. He knows God is greater than that thing that's crushing him, that so-called condemnation. Forget it. To be conquerors over the world, the flesh and the devil.

Holiness, Waiting on God, and Spiritual Revival

Okay. Vision. Doesn't the Bible say, where there is no vision, the people perish? We need a vision of a holy God. It's good to shout and clap and all this noisy stuff that they have around here. But you know what?

You can't worship God without holiness. Worship the Lord in what? The beauty of holiness. I've tried more. I've tried more than three weeks in my life. Not always for sorrow, but often for joy. A lady this morning described a high priest going into a holy place.

What does the Bible say? Had on sackcloth, no serene, garments of glory and beauty, pomegranates and golden bells. It was music going in. It was beautiful. He had a breastplate. He cut twelve stones. On the stones were the tribes, the nations, the tribes of Israel.

And he went to the holy place with a hand. And he looked beautiful in the sight of God. And he says, worship the Lord in the beauty. You can make all the noise you like. Ten thousand times noisier than it was.

If you do, I hope I'm not here. But anyhow. But even if you do, you may not be worshiping at all. You can worship God in silence. Dear Brother John used to be, in his early days, in the Quakers. I've been to Quaker meetings.

They were beautiful. I'm not saying I go every week forever. But there's a stillness. The Bible says be still and know that I'm God, which is as vital as being filled with the Spirit. You see, God can't get this on you.

You preach a voice. You book up. Just before he left, a guy sent me a letter. And he said, I want you to see. Last year, in 52 weeks, I held 50 revivals. In 52, he didn't hold one. He just gave God a shopping list.

That's arrogance at its highest. Lord, I want the Holy Ghost on my meeting Wednesday to Wednesday. Then I'll be traveling three days till I get to another place. Turn up, Lord. Forget it. One of these days, you'll have enough sense to wait on God.

Repeated, I've heard people say, you know, we haven't broken through yet. There's a glory to be ready. I'd believe that with all my heart. I'd die if I didn't believe that. We haven't touched the glory of God in our generation.

We haven't gone to meetings where the lights don't go out for 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 weeks. We haven't seen men come into town penniless. You shall put stuff over on me. I'm not a chicken. I don't eat chaff.

I want the seed. A little man came into a town near where I lived in 1935. He didn't have a page with his name. Nobody knew him. And he started a meeting, would you believe, Monday afternoon. Good night.

Wash day. Starting a meeting on Monday. 5 o 'clock in the morning, God woke him up and said, there'll be a boy in the meeting with a boot 5 inches deep. When you make an appeal, nobody will want to be saved.

When you say, anybody want to be healed? The boy's mother will raise her hand. He said to the song leader at 3 o 'clock, look in the auditorium, how many people are there? None, he said. No, no, no, no.

He said, what does it hold? Oh, it holds over 3 ,000. Hold. Oh, well, he said, he said there may be 120. He said, let's get out of town. We won't get enough offering to pay for the lighting. And dear little Welshman, Stephen Jeffery said, there's a boy in the meeting with a shoe 5 inches deep.

Stephen Jeffreys and the Healing That Stirred Revival

I pray, ask, anybody want to be saved? Nobody will raise their hand. When I say, anybody want to be healed? Mother will go like that. And so he preached, and he never preached very passionately, I must assure you.

But he said, well, anybody want to be saved? No hand raised. Anybody want to be healed? The boy went like that. So he said, well, bring the boy up on the platform. And he said to the boy, have you heard about Jesus?

Yes. Well, what would Jesus do for you? Oh, he said, Mr. Reid, heal me. He said, well, I'm Jesus' ambassador. And the boy had his shoe off, and he said to the congregation, pray. And everybody, would you believe that all 120 remembered the same text at the same time?

What? And pray. Gee, my gosh, the leg went down. Everybody said, whoo! He said, don't do that in England. Don't do that in Pentecostal churches. Never mind Church of England. That's not devout enough.

And there, the little boy put on his shoe, ran out. His mother ran after him. Trongesh ran after her. That night, there were 3 ,000 people. Listen, this is revival. Do you know why? Because at the end of that meeting at night, people went round the building and lined up to get in the afternoon meeting next day.

People carried chairs on their backs every day. A man would go at the end of a meeting, go home, he had a chair, sit in that chair in rotten English weather at 10 o 'clock at night, and be there at 5 in the morning.