Revival Series 6 — Leonard Ravenhill

Solomon’s Prayer for God’s Glory

Let's look for a little while now in the 2nd book of Chronicles and the 6th chapter, 2 Chronicles, chapter 6, we read from verse 1. Then said Solomon, the Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness, but I have built a house of habitation for thee in a place for thy dwelling forever.

Go over now in the same chapter, verse 16. Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, Thou shalt not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel, yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

Now then, O Lord God of Israel, let thy word be verified which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David, that will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built.

Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee. Now he lays that on a bit, doesn't he?

Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, the supplication of thy servant, the cry of thy servant, and the prayer which thy servant prayeth unto thee. There's nothing indefinite about that, is there?

Fire and Glory in the House of God

Now look at chapter 7, verse 1. Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the house, so that the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house.

And when the children of Israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good, and his mercy endureth forever.

The emphasis I want to put there is that he prayed, he built this magnificent place, some people say it was the most costly building maybe that ever was built. He used gold instead of cement, he splashed the walls with gold, and he used all kinds of precious things, and yet he had the sense to realize that if you lay gold six inches thick on all the walls, you may as well use it for a stable if God doesn't come.

You see, people say, Ah, have you been in St. Peter's? Have you been in Westminster Abbey? Aren't they glorious? They cost millions of dollars. I don't think God lives in either place. He dwelleth not in temples made with hands, but this man has built it according to divine orders, and therefore he says, Lord I built it, that's my part.

Now you do your part, and he prayed, and when he had finished praying, and that's an awful long prayer, you better read it, the previous prayers. When he made an end of praying, the fire came down and consumed the offering, and the glory of the Lord came down.

And when the people saw the glory of God, they were speechless and bowed down to the earth. Can you remember the last time you were in a meeting where the glory of God came down and you walked out speechless up to take your dinner or something else up there?

Or as soon as you get out, did you say, Boy, that's a great dress, I saw one like that in Sears, they say I got it at Pennies. You know, we're so lost in trivia that we can come out of the sanctuary where God is, or at least we say he was, and oh I got blessing in that second hymn, I got blessing, but there's no awe about it.

There's no overwhelming majesty. Again, you take a song leader around, well I don't care, they're alright, don't think they do much work for the money they get, but anyhow, you get a song leader. And the early evangelists never took a song leader, they weren't even evangelists, they were revivalists.

Instead of taking a song leader, they took men who could pray and men who could intercede. Now singing as a praise, I don't think anybody on earth enjoys singing more than I do. I like good singing, I like inspiring, uplifting singing.

But it only goes so far. It's good that something goes up, that we send an offering of praise to God, but what about the glory coming down? And it was after he had made, not just a tabernacle, but he had made an end of praying, he had made an end of obedience because he built his altars.

He had made an end of sacrifice, he brought what God told him. And then he believed God, Lord you said it, what does he say? He says, verse 17 of that 6th chapter says, Now then, O Lord, God of Israel, let thy word be verified.

Now come on, bring it to pass, make it real. You see, I was in a church recently and the pastor said to me, there were about a thousand people at that time, it filled up to about 1 ,300 or 1 ,400 people, and the pastor said, look how friendly our people are going around talking.

You know, some people like a church like a mall when you come in. Well, a bit later in the week I said, well, yes, that's all right, but to me the church isn't a country club. I would never break a meeting up, we do it Sunday, we did it last Sunday morning.

I'm not quarreling with what Tony does, I'm saying my style is this. First of all, you have to get people into the sanctuary. Secondly, you have to get them there mentally. Thirdly, you have to get them there spiritually.

That happens about 10 minutes to 12. They're so soaked up with the world outside, you just get a stillness of God. You get them quiet, you get their minds on something and then you're scattered in 60 directions.

Well, this is my, again, this is my idea, my thinking, my style. You have it another way, that's all right, I enjoy it. I'm not asking anybody to wear my sackcloth, I'm just saying as I see it. We live in a world of turmoil, a world that's restless, a world where there's noise.

Stillness, Silence, and Spiritual Attention

There was a certain London preacher when I was in England, he started the, I was in a habit or method when he was in Leeds, the city where I was raised, and they would have a hymn and a prayer and a song and a choir would sing and then he would read a scripture and he'd say, and now, two minutes silence.

All the lights in the church went out except one light over the pulpit. You'll never realize how long two minutes is till you sit there and nobody's talking, nobody does a thing. And he said, so many people said to him, you know, I felt a kind of, for once my mind wasn't thinking about even what the choir's going to sing or you're going to sing.

Suddenly there was a stillness, I was still, my spirit was quiet, my mind was quiet. You know, as though you slip everything out of gears and shut the engine off and relax and just say, I'm going to rest before I drive the rest of the way.

Again, I was in the revival and I didn't know that until recently. I read it, I read it in a reading of Mrs. Goforth where she said again that there's a, there was a place of majesty even in the stillness.

Not in the awesomeness of being lifted to heaven for eight hours, but in the stillness. Not in the traveling prayer, but in the stillness. I don't know if you know a chorus, speak Lord in the stillness while we wait on thee.

Hush our hearts to listen in expectancy. Then speak, O blessed Master, in this quiet hour. Let us see thy face, Lord, feel thy touch of power. For the words thou speakest, they are life indeed. Living bread from heaven, now my spirit feed.

You see, everybody, I don't care who it is, we have the same danger here, everybody has, of getting into ruts. People say, I used to go to a church, you sat down and then the song leader says, one twenty-three, everybody stand and sing.

Up you go, down you sit. Stand up and sing this, down you sit. Now the reading of the scriptures, stand again, now sit down, the choir will sing. Now the offering, now something else, it's mechanical.

Well, I used to go to a church on and off when I was in that city, when I wasn't teaching myself. You know, I found the folk that scorned ritual in a couple of years were in ritual themselves. I could tell you the chorus they'd start with about, at least thirty Sundays out of fifty-two.

And it seemed I was always in the thirty-two, because every time I went they sang, you know, without him I would be nothing, you know, I'm like a ship without a sail, and I thought, that's true. And, you know, everybody got stirred and weepy, and then they'd go on to another chorus, and another chorus, and then it was, let's all stand up and pray, worship God.

Well, I don't think that's worship anyhow, I think it's praise. What did they do when the glory of God came? They fell down and worshipped. And if you look through the scripture, there's more instances of falling down to worship.

It's the awesomeness of God, you don't want to look anyway, you don't want to see anybody, you don't want to hear anybody. You want your ears to be deaf. You want your eyes not to be on anything. Now that's just again my interpretation, but there it is.

Solomon made an end of praying, the fire came down. Solomon made an end of praying, the glory came down. I used to go to a conference, one of the largest in England. I wasn't too much worried about who was going to preach, but oh, I'll tell you what.

I always thought there's one of two men I hope they'll ask to pray. And usually they asked one of just two men out of dozens or scores or hundreds of preachers that were there. Whenever those two men prayed, I thought, you know, as the scripture said, they'd hold on the horns of the altar with one hand and the hand on the congregation with the other.

There was always an inflow. There was always something uplifting. There was always something revealing. Well, if we need people to sing solos to us and quartets and heaven knows what, I wouldn't be at all adverse to taking a man with me if I was going on more meetings.

I'm not going in many next year, hardly book one. But a man that could really touch God like that. An awesome thing. And this is a king, Matthew. He's not delegating it to someone else. He made an end of praying.

The glory came down. He made an end of praying. The fire came down. What more do you want? Well, let's talk here about... Let's talk about prayer here now in Romans 8. Romans chapter 8. Look at verse 22.

Groaning Prayer and the Spirit’s Intercession

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23. Not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves.

And verse 26. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself, or himself more correctly, maketh intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered.

What is he doing? He's making intercession. What does the next verse say? And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for us. And verse 34 says what?

Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that he is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. My, that's a mighty lot of stuff, isn't it?

This is the victory chapter. This is one of the greatest chapters in the whole of Scripture. I think if Paul had known it and the Lord would have let him, he'd have sung when he moved into chapter 8 from chapter 7, Out of my bondage, sorrow and night, Jesus I come.

Because Romans 7 is all bondage. To put it in language of English literature, do you remember there was a very famous writer called John Milton? What did he write? Paradise Lost. Do you know when he wrote it?

After he got married. Then he wrote a second volume, Paradise Regained. Do you know when he wrote that? When his wife died. Now there's no connection, but it's historically true. But you know, it's exactly true in Romans 7.

Romans 7 is Paradise Lost. Romans 8 is Paradise Regained. I was in a meeting three weeks ago, a fine young student came to me and he said, you know, big, husky guy, boo, looked a real heavyweight champion.

He said, can I ask you a question? I thought, well, I'd better say yes, if I say no, I could be in trouble. So I said, yes. He said, you know, Brother Raymond, I've been a Christian for so many years.

And he said, I want to tell you something, really. I'm a Christian. And these were his exact words. But I feel as though I'm carrying inside of me a dead body. Oh, I said, I'll give you a scripture for that.

There it is, the end of Romans 7. Romans 7, 24, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the, what? Body of this death? Well, that's what Paul said. So, cheer up, you're in good succession.

Yeah, but I don't want to keep the body of this death. No, you don't need to. In Romans chapter 6, I don't think 6, 7 and 8 are consecutive. I don't think the man in Romans 6, 7 actually, is necessarily a Christian man.

It is two of many Christians. Unfortunately, it's two of many Christians. I don't doubt that. Somebody asked a friend of mine, who is Romans 7 about? He said, it's for the man that's in it. If you're still in Romans 7, get out of it.

Union with Christ and Freedom from Sin

This young man says, I've got a body of death. All right. You see, again, in the 6th chapter of Romans, one of the most quoted chapters again, in verse 4 of Romans 6, it says, Therefore we are buried with him by baptism unto death, or into death, that likewise, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

If we are planted together in his likeness of his death, we are in his resurrection. Knowing this, our old man is crucified, not was, is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed. For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Paul quotes that later, doesn't he? In another epistle. Now again, crucifixion, there were many ways of crucifying a man. You could crucify him on a traditional cross like that. You could crucify him on a cross like a letter T.

You could crucify him on a cross like a letter X, stretch his members out. You could crucify him on a straight column of wood, a tree trunk with a big spike through it and stick him on it and turn him round and leave him hanging upside down if you wanted.

Or he could be crucified to the man he'd killed. He had to carry the body of death that he had created. And therefore if you saw a man coming down the road staggering, you kept away from him. Why? Because the corruption was going to eat him up.

He's carrying a dead body. The eyes had gone slimy if the birds hadn't picked them out. He's in a terrible mess. It was much quicker to be crucified on a cross. This death could take an awful long while.

This man's going to find food or something and he's going to be carrying continually a body of this death. And so Paul says, well what shall I do? Because the law can't help me. He's very clear about that.

He says, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? And he doesn't stop there. He says, I thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord. So then with my mind I serve the law of God but with my flesh the law of sin.

You say, well there you are. Well this body of mine is not serving the law of sin right now. I hope not. But it's going to serve the law of sin if Jesus doesn't come because the wages of sin is death.

And my body is going to serve the law of death. It has to. Unless again I'm raptured. But my mind and my spirit do not serve the law of sin. Now if we were really correct when we bury people in baptism and they go under the water when a man goes under the water he can't see the world above him.

He doesn't talk to it. He isn't eating it. He isn't interested in it. He's under the water. And that's supposed to be that when he went under the water he's telling the world I died with Jesus Christ and the world up there has got no pull on me and I don't want it.

I'm not interested in it. It doesn't fascinate me. Whether it is the cowboys who have one or two Christians playing for them or the Atlantic Falcons I spoke to their football team last year that there are some Christians among.

No, no, no. The thing is I've pulled out from the world. I'm dead to the world and all its toys its idle pomp and fading joys. And Jesus Christ is my glory. Now if you go through Romans chapter 7 take a pencil and mark the I, I, I, I, I.

More I's there and I a taller. But anyhow. It's full of I's. How many times? I don't know. About 30 or 31. Then you take another pencil and mark how many times the Holy Spirit is mentioned. You'll have no problems.

He's not mentioned at all. Then you come into Romans chapter 8 and mark the I, I, I. And you've only got two. You've got verses what? 18? I think yes. 18 for I reckon and verse 28 or 38 rather. I am persuaded.

Now there's no way he can get round it. He has to use the first person singular there. But now go count how many times the Holy Spirit is mentioned. The Holy Spirit is mentioned 19 times in the chapter.

So chapter 7 is the self-centered chapter and chapter 8 is a Christ-centered chapter. Now notice what it says in verse 9. There are some awesome things. Somebody has said that this is the highest peak in the whole of divine range of revelation.

Maybe they're right. Look at verse 8. But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit. If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now underline that. The Spirit of God dwell in you. Look at the beginning line of verse 10.

If Christ be in you. Look at the middle of verse 11. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you. Who raised up Jesus from the dead? The Father raised Him up. And the Holy Spirit raised Him up.

So that means here, I've got the Spirit of God dwelling in me in verse 9. I've got the Spirit of Christ dwelling in me in verse 10. And I've got the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead.

Now if God the Father is in me and God the Son is in me and the Holy Spirit is in me, well how in the world do I manage to get tripped up so often? How in the world do I stagger around so much? How in the world do I tread water so much?

I ought to be moving like this every day. You know, it's easy to sing it. I see crowds of people singing ecstatically. You know, I'm pressing on the upward way. New heights I'm gaining every day. And I think, are you telling the truth?

If I stopped and said, now I'm going to turn this into a testimony. Let's start here. What new heights have you gained today you weren't on yesterday? Then you follow on and you follow on. I wonder how far we get if you're really honest.

How much do I gain every day? Isn't it awesome? Is there anything like this in the Quran? Whatever the Islamic folk are saying today, Mohammedan, they've got nothing like that. Buddha never said he'd live inside anybody.

Mohammed never said he'd live... But Jesus Christ is... Paul says it's Christ in you. He's not going to be in me. He is in me. Well, is there any conflict between me and the Spirit of God? Me and the Son of God?

There shouldn't be. Me and the mind of God? Me and the will of God? No, no, no, no, no. Well, you can think about that. You can mark out the times again about the Holy Spirit. What I want to stress here now is, again, verse 22, the whole creation groaneth.

Creation’s Groaning and the Nearness of Judgment

Now, by the whole creation, I've heard people say when the world is shattered by earthquakes, when some of this phenomena happens up in the sky, that's the whole creation groaning. Others see it as the whole creation of mankind, the travail of mankind.

They show us pictures of many things. They haven't shown us many pictures of Cambodia. I think we have a little bit of conscience about it, that Kissinger was defending himself this morning. He didn't say anything about Cambodia, I notice.

But boy, there's going to be an awful thing to account for with Nixon and, I think, that guy, when they get to the judgment seat. You see, those guys never thought that history... Wouldn't that be wonderful when God rolls the film back?

Huh? Do you think He's going to do that? I do. I think eternity God's going to roll the film back right to Adam and show us what happened in the garden and He's going to show all the subsequent history, the fall of the Babylonian Empire and every other empire, including the British Empire, the Roman Empire, and whatever empires you've got.

And He's going to show us everything that ever happened in history. It'll take a long afternoon, maybe about 5 million years, but after all, we're going nowhere. Huh? There'll be no deadlines in heaven.

No TV cameras or other cameras. God's going to replay history to us. I'm sure of that. He's going to show us every justification of His anger, His wrath, as well as of His mercy. The whole creation groaneth now.

Why does it groan? What did the children of Israel say when the Jews rejected Jesus? They said, His blood be upon us. They got the prayer answered. After all, God was married to Israel. He said goodbye to his wife.

He divorced her for uncleanness, and He hasn't bothered with her for 2 ,000 years. And she's sure not out of trouble yet. I think she's still going into a time of what the Word of God calls Jacob's trouble.

I think the next 5 years are going to be... I don't care what your denomination's done in the last 500. What it can do in the next 5 years is what's going to count. I believe it's going to be the vortex of history.

You know when you pull the plug in a bath or something bigger than that, and there's a suction hole. You know, when a big ship's going down in the Atlantic, the sea may be very calm, but the last thing they say is, Pull away!

Pull away! Why? Because when that ship goes down, just like water going down the drain, that great big thing makes a suction hole, and if you're not clear, it sucks the lifeboats and everything down with it.

And I think we're moving into that suction period. This book's never wrong. What you sow, you reap. We always think that about evil things. It's true of good things. What you've sown good is as true as evil.

You sow good, you reap good. You sow mischief, you reap mischief. You sow gossip, you reap gossip. You sow loving kindness. Whatsoever you sow, you reap. Well, the whole creation groaneth. But then it says here, verse 23, the first fruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves.

Travail, Intercession, and Revival

And then verse 26 again, the Spirit himself maketh groanings which cannot be uttered when we're in prayer. Now this comes down to the nitty-gritty. I have no idea. God knows I don't. I don't have any idea what immediate steps have to be taken before God can trust me with groanings in the Spirit.

I don't know what precedes them except obedience, and vision, and passion. Nobody writes history correctly because nobody knows all history. You get somebody writing the history of Northern Ireland, now if he's a Roman Catholic, he'd give you one history.

If he's a Protestant, he'd give you an entirely different history. You can't record history. You can't write biography correctly. And I've written a number, pardon me, I've read a number of stories of the young man again used in the Welsh Revival.

Now remember that God used him at 22 years of age. And I read someplace not too long ago, and I've forgotten where, where for 10 years prior to that revival he had prayed and interceded. That means he started interceding when he was 12 years of age.

Now God hands him a nation. He started in a smaller way. When the revival broke, when he first prayed, he prayed in Welsh. But when he prayed, there were not more than 40 people there in the auditorium.

A revival never began in a mass meeting. You can get your crowds of 100 ,000, 50 ,000. I never heard revival break like that. Revivals always started with a handful of people, God's chosen people. And this young man, God is trusting him with revival.

Now the revival has got... He was a big man. The Welsh nationally, and naturally, they're not very tall. I preach very often in Wales. But they're not a very tall group of people. They're small, they're rather sallow-skinned, they have black hair, they look Jewish in appearance, and they sometimes say they're of the tribe of Levi, because they're all great preachers whether they're anointed or not.

They're certainly great, they're the greatest congregational singers in the world. You've never heard singing till you go to Wales and hear how they sing. Except in Scotland, they can sing the 23rd Psalm better.

But in Wales, they sure sing. Now here's a towering figure of a man. He has an auditorium packed. And somebody who worked with him, Niprash, was on his left hand. My friend J .F. Perryman was on his right hand, through the revival in Wales in 1904, and then in Guernsey, and then afterwards.

And he said, I've seen some awesome things in the life of this man. The amazing thing about him was his sensitivity to God. And I don't know how to drill that in your minds or underline it, but this is what you and I really need, a sensitivity to God, or if not, we'll go along with the herd.

We'll do what others are doing. He had a sensitivity to God. So much so that Niprash says that, I talked to them about the things of the Spirit until nearly midnight, and went home excited and elevated that I'd been able to share with this amazing man the things of the Spirit.

And then he said, next morning I went and asked, could I see him again? And I went to see him, I think he said about 10 o 'clock. But immediately he said, he asked me something about what do you do when you're growing something?

And he said, I was staggered that this man was, we were, you know, 50 ,000 feet high at 12 o 'clock last night. Then the first thing he asked me about growing radishes or something. And then there was, I tried to talk again and he turned me off in something else.

And I suddenly realized, he said, that he sensed I was out of tune with God. I hadn't had my devotions that morning. I hadn't, I loved the Lord but I hadn't given time to get my spirit still. And immediately he felt a clash in his spirit.

In other words, he was sensitive like that. F .B. Meyer went to see him, travelled all the way from London to Wales to see him. And the landlady knocked at the door of this precious fellow and said, oh come down quickly, the greatest preacher in the world is here, Dr. F .B. Meyer.

And he said, I'll be down after maybe in a couple of hours. Oh, it's Dr. F .B. Meyer. Now most of us, if you were praying, you know, and somebody said, well Billy Graham's come to see, oh we'd jump up and say, well Lord you wait, Graham's here.

You know, so important. Oh we can cover it up with a scripture, be courteous, be this, well first of all that applies to God, be courteous there. He would not come down. He was very, very sensitive in the spirit.

He would walk into a room and say, when there'd been a lot of discussion about him, some very unholy things had been said. And he said to the people, now don't discuss this anymore in the house. And when he came in, it was just as a, he would say, hmm, somebody's burning toast.

Instead of that he said, have you been talking about it again? And they all bowed their head, they had. He was as sensitive as that to it. Now he's sensitive the other way. Nepass says, the most awesome thing I saw in the life of this man was one night in a meeting when he stood up to speak and suddenly his whole being began to shake and he fell, he collapsed.

He said as though somebody had thrust an arrow, thrust a dagger in his liver or something. He collapsed on the floor, this man about six feet high and he shook and he began to groan and groan and travel and they went to touch him and it was just as though there were vibrations coming.

They couldn't get near to him and he said, I have never, never seen a man have a personal Gethsemane like that and particularly in a public place. It didn't embarrass him at all. And the whole audience was hushed.

But what else would they do? You see a strong man groaning, you hear his weeping, you hear his sobbing, you feel as though he's going to be torn apart, you want to go and put your arm, nobody could touch him.

But he said when he stood up he almost needed a veil on his face. The glory of God shone out of him as though he was having a personal transfiguration. He had his Gethsemane. Now how many, how many of our popular preachers do you think would do that?

In the first place would God trust them with it? In the second place, do you think you could put that on TV if you were preaching? Hmm? Now the other night I was preaching down in Nacogdoches there and I preached the first night I preached I don't like Sundays because anybody comes Sundays they are not spiritual they come out of obligation and the wife drag them there or something I like to get Sunday over.

Monday we got going. Monday night was I felt one of the most awesome meetings I was ever in. God just came and saturated that place. Tuesday night I spoke on David and his sin. I just said the altar is open if you want to come and it was lined immediately with students all over the place.

Maybe we sat half an hour and then suddenly one of these women that has a spirit of intercession she let out an utterance and the Lord said to me what I never thought of before he said that wasn't a scream it was a cry.

You see when you get an inward groaning of the spirit it talks here about groanings which cannot be uttered. Now some people say that's praying in tongues I don't believe that because it says it can't be uttered.

I'm not denying there's a prayer language for some but I'm saying there's something higher even than that there are groanings which cannot be uttered. Hannah had it. She goes in the sanctuary. What's the hardest thing to put up with?

Criticism of sinners? Contradiction of sinners? No. Criticism of saints? Oh Mary Ann isn't going shopping anymore for three months she's made a vow to the Lord. That's a silly vow to make. It isn't to Mary Ann.

And the only thing it's reason that's silly to you is because you love to shop and do nothing maybe. But Mary Ann's going to give that time to the Lord. This man says I won't watch TV for six months. This man, they put restrictions.

I met a man just a few weeks ago and he amazed me he said Raven, I'm so glad to see you I want to tell you you're on the right line. Well thank you I didn't need that I believe God told me that. But he said you know in our church last night was the 52nd night of prayer.

Isn't that something? 52nd night of prayer. We're burdened for the nation. We're burdened for this crisis over the world. So I'd finished praying the altars filled the people were sobbing and so forth and suddenly this woman gave birth to a cry.

Now it says of Hannah she prayed her lips moved but her voice was not heard. The most eloquent prayers have no language at all. The nearest you get is a groaning in the spirit. Do you remember what it says about what is it where Moses is in Deuteronomy?