The Bride Prepared — Leonard Ravenhill

The Bride Prepared — Leonard Ravenhill

My prayer is that from now until the final consummation, the devil will regret this meeting we've ever had. It's too late to play games, even to play church. It's the most critical hour in human history, I'm sure of that.

Jack Taylor's always been one of my heroes, and he's a gifted preacher, I know that. You could say his sermons are models of, what, homiletical perfection, exegetical exactitude, and anything else you want to say about that.

But he cheered me up tonight, he said, he's thrown all that away, so I feel free. Okay, the first book of Kings, and the seventeenth chapter. I believe there's only one hope for our generation, and that's for divine intervention.

We talk about revival. It's a safe guess not one of us here has ever been in one. We've been in good meetings, but not in revival. Revival is the most chaotic thing, the most destructive thing, the most terrifying thing that you can imagine.

Two of the great, I was going to say something, I'll change it, two of the great preachers in the country in the last year have said, the whole of America is seeding in revival. It's easy to say that on TV.

Then my phone rings from one end of the country to the other, and letters come. I live in St. Louis, there's no revival here. I live in Kansas City, there's no revival here. I live so-and-so, there's no revival here.

So where is it? It just isn't there. You see, Dr. Toews used to say, Leonard, keep this in mind. True revival changes the moral climate, what shall I say, the moral climate of a district. You can't have an invasion of divine power and things of the ordinary.

Any more than you can have an earthquake and things of the ordinary. So I want to talk to you about a little while tonight. I'm going to preach, I'm going to give you some exhortation. From the first book of Kings, again, chapter 17.

Elijah’s Authority and the Word of God

Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth before whom I stand, there shall be no dune or rain these years according to God's word. No, according to my word.

You see, they thought God had gone away altogether. There'd be no great demonstrations of miraculous power. They knew that God divided the Red Sea. They knew he sent manna from heaven. But they figured that God was out of the picture.

And Elijah says these two very, very stirring, challenging things to them. The God of Israel is living. He's not only living before whom I stand. You don't sit in the presence of an authority. You stand to wait for directions.

And he says there's going to be no dune or rain according to my word. So he took out the key of faith and locked up heaven. I want to ask Brother Rick afterwards, and Brother Paul, Why isn't Elijah in Hebrews 11?

I preach on Hebrew. I like that chapter. I'll tell you why. Every time I read Hebrews 11, I finish up on the floor. Because men and women subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.

In other words, they shook whole kingdoms. And not one of them ever had a Bible. Dear God, where are we? God has nothing to add. He doesn't scratch his head and say, I was going to tell Paul, Saul, John, something on the Isle of Patmos, I forgot.

Everything that we need for revival and holiness is here in the word of God. And Elijah is not in Hebrews 11. Well, I mentioned this in the church. And, you know, that significant little old lady that turns up everywhere came to me after the meeting.

She said, I can tell you why he isn't in the chapter, so tell me. She said, because he didn't die in the faith. So as I was going out, she said to the pastor, He's teaching the Bible. I taught him something this morning.

I said, you sure did. Could you teach me something else? Well, you said he's not in the chapter because he didn't die by faith. What about the second man in Hebrews 11? What about him? Well, who was it?

I said, Enoch. He didn't die by faith. She said, it just shows you the Bible contradicts itself. I've quit arguing with women ever since then. They've always got an answer, whether it's right or wrong, they'll say.

Isn't this the greatest thing? This side of heaven, the word of the Lord came to me. What did Jesus do when he was tempted? He threw the book at the devil. It is written, it is written, it is written.

You have a vision. Work by the vision. It doesn't do me any good. I must have the word of God. I can face the world, the flesh, the devil, everything. As long as God has said it. His word abides forever.

God is still on the throne, but he's not sitting there nervously waiting for a letter to come up from Dallas. To say that the men in the seminary have decided the Bible is infallible. Forget it. The book says, thy word, O God, is forever and ever.

The word of God is settled in heaven. Dear old Dr. Criswell, he can't be wrong, he's a Baptist. And Criswell says there's an exact copy of this book in heaven. Sure there is, it's the King James Version.

What else could it be? The word of the Lord came. This is a command that God says to him. Look at verse 3. The word of the Lord came into him. Get thee hence and turn thy face outward and hide thyself by the book.

Hiding and Showing Oneself Before God

Kenneth, hold that a moment. What does God say to this superman? Hide thyself. Read the next chapter and verse 2. What does he say? Elijah went, find verse 1. Go show thyself. It's wrong to show yourself when you should hide yourself.

It's wrong to hide yourself when you should show yourself. You see, we're afraid of the dark. We're afraid to be alone. I love the Lord. How much time have you spent with him today? I love my precious wife.

We've been married almost 50 years. You see, grace can last to live with a guy like me. And now you start to go over the mountains in England in a car. You could stick in the trunk of your big car like Jack Bright.

Why did I go through the snow and the blizzard? Because I love her. I still love her. She's gorgeous. I've been a wonderful wife, raised three wonderful sons. Dear Lord, talk about money. Money talks.

All it says to me is goodbye. Go hide thyself. Where did he go? In an air-conditioned room? No, a prayer-conditioned room. A lousy place. You wouldn't put a dog in in these days. But listen. What's it Madam Gein said?

Could I be cast where thou art not? That were indeed a dreadful spot. But with thee, my God, to guide the way, it is equal joy to go or stay. When Rutherford was shut up in that prison off the coast of Scotland, a man came to see him and said, Well, what are you doing here?

You love God? You're the most saintly preacher in Scotland? And look at the slime on the walls. Look at the rats running around. Does God leave you here? He said, friend, when you're not here, every one of those stones shines like a ruby.

And I have his presence here more than anywhere in the world. Where Jesus is, heaven there. Go hide thyself in a lonely place. We don't like that. Oh, how many times you say when the children have gone, I don't like to call them kids.

People ask me, do you have any kids? I say, no, I'm not a ghost. I have some children. But often you say, oh, these children. If only I could be quiet. And as soon as you go to school, you turn the stupid TV on to shout at you all day.

I'm glad PJ was off the air. All it meant was pity the listeners. Go hide thyself. Yes, I guess somebody this week has mentioned the fact that John Knox, that terrific Scottish character, the Queen of Scotland, Bloody Mary as we called her, said, I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the armies of England.

Wait a minute. That's not a story. John Knox was banished to France for 12 years. When he came out of France, he was made a slave on the galleyship. He pulled on the galleys, on the oars, until his hands were blistered and torn.

But when he got to Scotland, England at that time was in fighting condition with Scotland. And there was a man called Randolph who was the British ambassador in Scotland. And he sent a message on the coach.

He wrote a note and said, deliver this in London. Send it to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Send it to the Prime Minister of England. What did he write on the note? He wrote this. John Knox has come back to Scotland.

His voice is worth 500 trumpets. We need a man like that today in the nation. A man with authority. You don't question his credentials. Dear God, what does he do? The Holy Ghost anointing doesn't come with degrees or diplomas.

It's by hiding away in the secret place of the Most High. And here this man stays for about three years, not three days. You see, that's the university of silence. A woman asked me one day, what university did he go to?

I said, Bush. She said, Bush? Do I know anybody that went there? I said, Moses. She said, Moses who? But you see, it's the quietness we don't like. What did Jesus do? He went into the quietness on the mount.

Moses, John the Baptist, and the School of Silence

But you see, God takes all these men there. You've got Moses with 120 years. 40 years, if you read the seventh of Acts, he studied in the universities. He was learning all the wisdom of the Egyptians.

He knew maybe ten languages. He was a statesman before ever he got the Ten Commandments. But where did he learn his trade? On the backside of the desert. He'd be wearing royal robes and lived in all the splendor of the greatest empire in the world.

And God takes him away and throws him on the back of the desert. Not for 40 days, not for 40 weeks, not for 40 months, for 40 years. But why do you expect better treatment? You want to go to school and get a diploma?

Dear Lord, you can have enough to put all around the walls. It won't scare the devil. Moses on the backside of the desert and God communed with him. And God takes all these men there. There's a comparison between Elijah and John the Baptist.

John the Baptist on the backside of... Does God act fairly? Why didn't God go ahead of John the Baptist and put the pillar of fire in the wilderness for a week before he got there? And everybody crowed and said, Hey, the pillar of fire's back.

This is God, this is Jehovah that you talk about. He's there in the pillar of fire. It disappears in the day and it's a pillar of cloud. And people came to the north, south, east, and west to hear John.

No, he didn't do that. Why didn't he give them a healing line? The scripture says clearly John did no miracle. We've had 50 years of miracle in America. Paul knows more than anybody about that. But what has it done?

People are satiated with it, they forget it. Cripples get up and they go and dance for the devil. They go and drink. When God has miraculously healed them. Something far greater than that is coming to America in our generation.

It has to. The very Son of God. He knew he was the Son of God at 12. That must be about my father's business. And God let him stay there for 30 years. Mending a little boy's wheelbarrow. Patting somebody's door.

The best carpenter around. And he was the Holy Son of God. And there he was. People say, I want to be like Jesus. Don't believe it for a minute. You want 40 days in the wilderness? Try 40 hours fasting.

Put it to practice, your old theology. So John the Baptist is there. Jesus is there. The most colossal intellect the world ever had, I believe, outside of Jesus, was the Apostle Paul. I don't agree that you should put him up with Plato and Socrates.

Their genius was by reason. His was by revelation. We don't have to come back to that revelation. It'll make us tremble. You won't go to church after there's been a Holy Ghost revelation. You won't say, darling, what was the sermon this morning?

I'll tell you how much some of you men love God. Stay away from the stupid tube. Now they tell us what's coming on Sunday. The ball match. Forget it. Spend that time with God. See, God, it's true the Bible says be still and know that I'm God.

But we're active all the time. We're active. We're doing what we're doing. We're planning what we're planning. A guy sent me his brochure the other day. A Baptist. Supposed to be the next Billy Graham.

Heaven help us, but anyhow. I counted. In the next 52 weeks, he has 40 revivals. Two days here. Two days there. That's bunker. Does a human dare to turn the Holy Ghost off and say, go ahead to me? Forget it.

I told Wilkerson. He used to live by the side of me. Now he lives in New York. I said, David, there's no biblical authority for you, Billy Graham, or Roberts, or anybody else to have a one night stand.

Phinney didn't do that. The Apostle Paul didn't do it. It's not fair. Men stay for days. Do you know, Phinney would go to some crusades and not make an altar call until he preached for 28 days and nights.

Now the guy goes in, wants to break up the fallow ground, sow the seeds, and gather the harvest in half an hour. That's below me. Because you can't go to a town and preach every night and take a love offering every night for 28 nights.

No, they just blow into town. They get a big display on TV, have a great advertising, a great crowd, a great offering, and get enough money to refuel their private jet and go to the next town and rob other folk.

Forget it. We're going to see men in our generation that have never been on the earth. God's going to pull us. It's spirit and all flesh. I think a dear brother here told me the other week, there's a man in western Texas, and I'm not going to find the man I'd love to see, but he's probably the most anointed man in America.

He has no degrees. That's an advantage. He hasn't been to Bible school, I think. That's a great advantage. Nobody messed his mind up. And you know what he is, this anointed man? You know what he is? He's a sharecropper.

A sharecropper? Oh, there are preachers and preachers. The greatest preacher in the days of Oliver Cromwell was Dr. John Owen that wrote all these fabulous books. He has about six volumes on the Holy Spirit.

One day the king called him and he said, Come and speak. I want to speak with you. You are the vice-chancellor of Oxford University. You are the greatest preacher in England today. I hear that thou dost go listening to that babbling Baptist.

He said, Your Majesty, I walked four miles the other day and I listened to that Baptist. He's a tinker. He's a poor man. But he said, Sir, I would take up my robes of office. I would gladly resign as supreme preacher for Oxford University if I could preach like John Bunyan.

You see, there's something that money can't buy. You can't bestow it. You can't pass it on. It originates in God. It has to be born in me and may die. Dear God, you'd be amazed how many young men write and ask me, Would you like to pass your mantle on to me?

So I write back, No, I'll tell you some of my sackcloth. I'll never hear from them again. That kills them. Oh, you're the new Apostle Paul and I want to be a Timothy. Forget it. If we took everybody. We get about 30 visitors a week to our house.

Some guy, the Lord has shown me to come and stay at your house a year. Good for you. You haven't shown me, so you're not coming. We're all looking after a short way to get blessing, aren't we? We're looking for a formula.

There isn't one. There's no formula. It's a person. I hate it to hear Swaggart, Paul Swaggart saying, The baptism, have you had it? The baptism isn't it? It's a person. It's a blessed person of Timothy.

And when he comes and invades human personality, everything goes. A man becomes God controlled. He thinks like Christ. He sees like Christ. He loves like Christ. What happened all those days? This man was there in the quietness.

Elijah at Zarephath and the Necessity of Obedience

Go down to Zarephath. Well, he went into the cave. Then he goes to Zarephath, which was the capital of Baal and all his rotten religion. And remember, this man is standing against the world, the flesh and the devil.

He's standing up against the priests of Baal and Ashtoreth, who were dedicated to immorality and wild living and recklessness. And he stands there, a model of purity. But remember, it's still true that one man with God is a majority.

We're afraid of the quietness. The paper here. If I said this, you might not believe me. But this is pure gold. It's the communiqué from Fullness magazine. Now you dare not say a word. It talks about revival conferences that began with Jack Taylor there in San Antonio.

And it goes on to say that this traveled over to Switzerland and Florida and so forth. And then it says that there came a sudden quietness, sensing that the spirit was grieved. The deity of the Holy Spirit, we welcome him, but not his whole person.

First, there was resistance to praise. Many feared the simple scripture courses, because today we were offering too much freedom, clapping and raising hands. And eventually, a possible gifts of the spirit being manifested among us.

Then in quotes, out of fear came a clever maneuvering to shut down the great move of God. Well, nobody's going to do that. God isn't asking anybody's permission. He's going to come. And it may seem ridiculous.

So what? I'm sick of mediocrity. Boy, I can predict everything that goes on in a meeting. I was reading and rereading the history of revival in Azusa Street. On the first page of Bartleman's new edition, it says this.

There are 70 million classical Pentecostals. So I had one of the great theologians of the Pentecostal church in my office recently. I said, I want to read this. This is what Bartleman says. There are 70 million classical Pentecostals.

He said, that's not true. I said, well, I'm sorry, I misquoted it. He said, not 70 million, 120 million. I moved across, almost put my finger in his eye. I said, were there 120 million in the upper room?

No. Well, I said, what's the difference between their baptism and ours? Come on, be honest. We're boasting about something we don't have. It's a theology. It's a phrase. It's a technique. I want an invasion of God.

I want God to settle over a community. It only comes by birth pangs. Somebody may have mentioned that great revival through Jonathan Edwards. What, in the 1700s? When he prayed that sermon that is still read, sinners in the hands of an angry God.

But listen, he spent the whole night before that with a group of choice people, praying and fasting and weeping. Do you know in those revivals, never once was there an altar call? Do you know that all the years that Spurgeon was in London, they never once made an altar call?

Do you know when there's a revival, you don't make an altar call. Read the third chapter of Luke. And what does it say? It tells you about John the Baptist. What a man. His mother was filled with the Holy Ghost.

His father was filled with the Holy Ghost. The priest of the day was filled with the Holy Ghost. He was filled with the Holy Ghost through his mother's womb. It doesn't say that about Jesus. Jesus was the Son of God, but he didn't preach until the Spirit rested upon him.

And he says, go into all the world, but don't go until you tarry with, to be endured with power. Listen, there isn't a Pentecostal church in America today. I've said that in front of Pentecostal audiences.

You talk about restoration. Are you going to see people restored to be deacons like Axtrix, full of faith and of the Holy Ghost with signs and wonders? Those are deacons. Are you going to have revivalists like Philip in the eighth chapter?

He's not an ordained minister, we would say. And then he goes into a city, and the whole city is moved in the power of the Spirit of God. But you say, Brother Enlil, that's past days. Okay. Martha, do we have that book?

What's it, Get Thy Glory, Lord? We don't have it now. Pardon? Take Thy Glory, Lord. Okay. I was preaching in South Carolina in Spartanburg. I gave an illustration. A fellow at the back, very well-dressed, oversized, you know, sat like this, so I knew he was a Baptist.

And he came to me after the meeting. He said, Oh, that story you told was wonderful. I said, The story of Duma? I went into Dr. Chaucer's office one day, and he was in there stroking a piece of paper.

What is it? He says, This piece of dog-eared paper is from a little black man in Africa by the name of Duma. I would rather have this letter than have a letter from the President of the United States or the Queen of England.

I said, What's unique about him? He said, He's a Baptist, brother. And so I told the story in South Carolina how this black man came in a meeting, knelt at the front, got saved and going out. No devil goes to white churches.

The preacher said, I'm glad to see you, brother. And he said, Thank you. He said, You're the little black man that knelt at the front, aren't you? He said, No, sir. He said, You are? You're the only man in a blue shirt with a white chalk stripe.

Now come on, tell the truth. You're the black man kneeling at the front at my altar. He said, I'm not. The preacher said, You are. He said, I'm not. That man died. I'm a new man. He knew something had happened.

So what did he do? He said to the preacher, Can I help you? He said, Give me a church. What? Did he have a church in my pocket to give you something? He said, God has called me to preach. Well, I can't help you.

So he went away. He was away for a month. He came back into the service. Going out, the preacher said, Oh, I know you. You're Mr. Doomer. Yes. Well, what can I do for you? Give me a church. I can't. Finally, they had a deacon's meeting, you know.

And the deacon graciously decided to give him a tin hat across town that had five people going. And they smiled and said, You know, he isn't educated. He hasn't been to Bible school. He can hardly speak English.

It's a shame to put him there. The only thing is that church that he got saved in is just about standing still. And that guy went on to get 2 ,000 people every Sunday morning. But when the man said to him, I can't give you anything.

He went down the road, outside Durden, came to a forest. He saw a path. He went down the path. He went up by the side of a stream and he found a cave there. He went in the cave. He took a rock and he marked outside the cave.

He stayed there 21 days and 21 nights like Elijah. He never ate anything. He drank water from the stream. And he said, Lord, you just whisper in my heart that I'm a preacher. And he said, the Lord said, You're a preacher and you're going to be used to heal the sick and cast out demons.

Good Lord, I could have set Africa on fire for a Baptist to do that. So what happened? Well, there's a book, Take Thy Glory, Lord. I read it, part of it, I loaned to one of those famous preachers in America and he returned it.

He said, Lenny, it isn't documented. You can't believe all this stuff. I said, I believe it. All right. Well, I don't. OK. What happened? Dooler began to get people healed. One day he got a call, went to a hospital.

He checked in at the office and said to the girl, I want to see Mr. So-and-so. She said, OK. He's in room 13. Oh, he brought some deacons with him. And they'd seen him praying and they're sickly healed.

So anyhow, here's the little black fella and the other guy. He says, hey, he's going to room 13. That's the morgue. A lady asked me if I prayed for the dead. I said, I just preached to them. So he goes up to the man, laid there, you know, calm and quiet.

People say we have unity in our church. They're doing the same at the tomb. Anyhow, he takes the cover off the man. And little Doomer, he was a small guy, he climbed on top of the corpse. And he prayed, Lord, with resurrection power, raise this man.

And the man coughed like that. If he'd done that with me on his belly, I'd have hit the ceiling. I'd have run out. He got up and walked the man away. Well, this famous preacher you all know, you've read his books, wouldn't believe that.

Last year, a man knocked at my door. I went and I said, oh, Brother Vogue, boy, am I glad to see you from South Africa. I said, by the way, did you know Branham? He said, William Branham, yes. I said, well, I've got his book, Get Thy Glory, Lord.

Was he as good as they say? He said, sure, Brother Rayner. Pardon? Oh, William Doomer, I'm sorry, not Branham. Branham's been dead a good while. I'd talk with him for hours. Anyhow, here's this little black guy.

Not since he died, I didn't talk with him. Didn't I? Forget it. Been too smart. Anyhow, here's a little black guy. And he said, Brother Rayner, yes, he healed us. I'll tell you what he did. He went to a hospital, prayed for a girl that was dead.

The doctor was an atheist. And out there, the windows were low and there were hundreds of little black boys and girls looking in and pointing at Doomer. That's a miracle, man. He prayed for the child.

The child got up and was perfectly healed. So, excuse me. He said, that all happened. I'll give you the name of the hospital. I'll give you the name of the girl that was healed. I'll give you the name of the atheist physician who witnessed it all.

I'll give you all the documents. I said, that's wonderful. I'll tell you something better than that. What do you mean, better than that? He said, I had a daughter. And she had some kind of, what was it?

Brain tumor. And he said, I signed the paper. And the doctors were permitted to take one third of her brain out. And said, ever after this, she's a vegetable. She'll be no good. And he said, she was lying in my home on the floor.

She couldn't have enough spittle even to wet her own lips. And there was a knock at the door. And I went, and there's William Branham. He'd come all the way from Durban on the overnight train. At his own expense, knocked on the door and said, Pastor, you've got trouble in this house.

He said, my daughter's there. She's still paralyzed. Her brain has been removed. She's a vegetable. Nothing can happen. Well, you see, he said. And this is the man, Matthew, who witnessed it. The father of the paralyzed girl.

And I went in and the girl was laying there. She's a young woman now. And she's lying there in total helplessness. And he went and stood up and prayed over her. And nothing happened. He prayed again and nothing happened.

He said, Pastor, I'll be back in a little while. He was away three days. He came back. The pastor said, where have you been? He said, I've been in the cathedral again. The cathedral went the woods. I've been there for three days and nights.

Satan isn't going to get victory in this body. You see, we want to say a magic thing and leave it. We don't resist the devil. We want to catch a bus and go home. Listen, when the devil's helped strain a personality for a year, he isn't going to leave it in ten seconds.

There's a persistence in faith. There's a time when I will not let thee go. So the doctor, and all hell was watching. All the angels were watching. And this precious girl's lying there. So he goes in again and he says to her.

He kneels down, takes her and kisses her down. Pulled her to her feet. And what did he say? He just pronounced healing over her. And her lips moved. And she gurgled a little something. Anyhow, he said, I've told you that.

Let me tell you the conclusion. I said, surely do. He said, now I left Durban, South Africa, just over a month ago. And a month before that, that vegetable girl, with a third of her brain removed, gave me my first grandchild.

Every part of her healed. That in itself is not enough. There must be conviction of sin. That passes. But when you see wicked, vile, corrupt people transformed by the power of God, the psychologist, nobody else can answer it.

But it comes when people get their birth bangs. I don't think I could have borne to hear Jesus praying Gethsemane. I'd love to have heard Paul when he prayed in Romans 9. And he said, I call the Holy Ghost to bear witness.

Do you think these men that have fallen recently dare call the Holy Ghost to bear witness? What they were doing was of God. It's hard for a spirit-filled man to commit sin. You've got to resist the Holy Spirit, grieve the Holy Spirit, quench the Holy Spirit.

And you can't do that and get up and forgive yourself and go back. God's going to raise some super holy men. Men that don't grieve for money, that don't care about popularity, that don't want to be listed with the great people.

I shun most invitations to preach at conventions and go around the world because people aren't ready. I'm looking for a few men as God's by witness, like Jack and a few others, that really have a hunger for God.

I don't want anything else. I'm too old. If God isn't going to rend the heavens and come down, take me up. I can't go to sleep at night. I go to bed at 9 at night. I get up at midnight. I spend the early hours with God.

How can I be comfortable out of 5 million people in the world that are without God and 5 million population, 4 billion I mean, at last they're going to hell forever. Boy! Some months ago I went to my office at 2 in the morning.

Revival, Conviction, and the Second Death

I began to read the 20th chapter of Revelation and suddenly it seemed as though the thing jumped off the page. What does it say there in Revelation 20? The second death. I preached in some of the greatest pulpits in the world, so called, and preached in some of the greatest preachers.

I've never heard this. I've heard a sermon on the second blessing. I've heard a sermon on the second coming. I've heard a sermon on the second birth. I've never heard a sermon on the second death. And I turned in my chair.

It was as though a voice spoke. It was 2 in the morning. I know it was creepy. I was wide awake, fully conscious, reading the word and I read the second death. And the voice at the side of me said, Hell has no exit.

Do you think I went to sleep? I went to speak at a meeting where they let 12 prisoners come in in white suits. And as soon as they walked in, the other thing that came to me, Hell has no parolees. No parolees.

Once in, it's there forever and ever and ever. I want to go to heaven. No, I'm not concerned too much about going to heaven. I want something better than heaven. What's better than heaven? I've said, what's better than heaven?

This meeting tonight. You can get right with God. You can shed your carnality. You can shed your ignorance. You can shed your laziness. You can shed your greed for money. You can do something here tonight you can't do in heaven.

It's too late to do it there. Do it here. Readjust your prayer life. Readjust your fasting. Readjust your giving. Ask God that these dry eyes become a fountain of tears. Ask God for a broken heart. America won't last ten more years the way she's going.

She can't. There has to be a divine intervention. And God's just about sick up with the pulpit all that's going on. Your son's near doors as we're prophesying. You wake up one night, your son will be speaking in tongues in the other room.

Your girl will be singing over there. Maybe you'll be scared to death. But God's going to do that. I'm sure of that. So here's this precious man in my office saying, Brother Ramiel, everything you've heard is true.

My darling daughter has given me a grandchild. We're happy. All the people come to see my daughter. Well, you see, they came to see something. Sure. What's wrong with it? Listen. They came not. N-O-T.

Letters eight feet high. They came not to see Jesus, but to see Lazarus that Jesus raised from the dead. What did Peter say on the day of Pentecost? These things which you both see and hear. You can't separate the two.