Power Over All the Power of the Enemy — Leonard Ravenhill

The Call to Follow Christ Without Knowing Everything

The man was filling out a tax form, exacting the last farthing that he could get. As he did this, a shadow fell over the ledger and he looked up and when he looked up a man said to him, follow me. Would you have done it?

He didn't know a thing about the stranger, I don't think he ever heard him preach, ever saw him perform a miracle, know anything about him as a prophetic figure. The man didn't say to him that one day he would be the ruler of this world and that the kingdoms of this world would become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ.

The man looked up and when he saw the face and the eyes of the man who commanded him to leave all he dropped his pen and immediately he rose and followed him. Prophetic about Christ, hadn't seen a miracle.

That is an embarrassment to God. About the future, he's said it all, he's written it all. In different types of language during these days that seem to have gone so very quickly, but we're living in them, there's the next five that I'm interested in.

The Church Must Answer a Degraded World

Logically, the world outside is not impressed again with our profundity of our knowledge, with the width of our vision, with the depth of our comfort. The language of some kids in New York that shrugged the whole thing off because they've abandoned themselves to their own form of life and they say with a sneer, this is a plastic society.

Plastic being the cheapest and most malleable thing that we have and we live in the cheapest, most malleable society in history and then they, that this is not only a plastic society but it's merely a stained glass ghetto.

I'm going to say this now that we're living in the normal days demand abnormal men with abnormal methods and abnormal messages. And as I said last night, I'll repeat again because obviously repetition is a law of learning that profits urgency men for crisis hours in history.

I believe that the body politic, the world in which we live is too degraded. It is in the language of Isaiah, it's from the head, the top of the head to the soles of the feet, it's full wounds and putrefying sores that cannot be bound up with anything that man has.

Now frankly I'm very honest and I don't fear anybody out of many devils as far as I know. I would much rather have preached an hour ago because I felt the spiritual temperature was much higher then than it is now.

But the fact is this, that as I sat there and heard this impassioned declaration from brother Jim, I love him very dearly, I was saying to myself this amongst other things is an age of computers, they're very wonderful things.

But there isn't a computer on God's earth that could tell us the possibilities of grace in this meeting tonight. There isn't a slide rule that men can operate that could measure this in any dimension at all.

There isn't a demon in hell that knows what this meeting, there isn't an archangel that knows. And I'm dead sure I don't want, I'm equally sure Jimmy doesn't, the possibilities of this meeting as great as God himself.

The history will be made when I get to the next conference and I hear the next preacher, I get somebody else. One of these days instead of boring and getting a dry hole, one day we're going to get a gusher.

Why shouldn't it be tonight? Why shouldn't it be tonight? Why shouldn't the angel in heaven be making a record right now on this night, I forget the very date, at this hour here in a little beautiful cathedral like this in Mildale, that God, the revival that this generation needs.

God isn't going to commission archangels to do it. He isn't waiting till you've come with a tail like a kite with all your PhDs and other DDs and all the rest of it. He's not concerned about that. I'm in the wildness, I read the word of God time after time after time how God goes right outside of the circle, again as he did with John Baptist, again as he did when he selected the twelve, and again tonight in a sermon I'd rather not preach and I never preach sermons by request except when God requests them.

And I believe he requests this that I've preached here before to some degree. It is a question of a woman of the world to a man of God when this woman, this ungodly woman said to Samson, tell me I pray thee wherein the secret of thy great strength lies and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict me.

The Secret of the Church's Strength

It will be a great day and God hastened the day when the world again begins to ask the church what is the secret of thy great strength. It doesn't cost any more to join the church now than you go to and join the Kiwanis.

People these days when they go to a new area they shop around to find which church has the most prestige. Is a member of government goes here? Is it two or three millionaires? Is there somebody distinguished?

They don't say which is the most spiritual and the most humble and the most childlike and the most dynamic. No one looks at the church of Jesus Christ and fears it. Normal things. Anointed with the Holy Ghost I'm convinced he gets his name written in hell and the devil can afford to bypass lots and lots of men and put out some names on the danger list and boy when you're there you're in for trouble.

The secret of thy great strength lies and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict me. As a kid in school in England my teacher told me a story an American story which is the best known thing out of all the literature that's ever been produced in America.

Do you know what the best known story is around the world? The story of Rip Van Winkle. And my teacher told me that this fellow went up a hill one day and he fell asleep and he slept for a century. When he came down the hill he got into controversy there.

He got engaged with some people and he began to argue and this was his undoing. Because you see when he went up the hill there was a sign hanging outside of the old tavern there and as it was swinging down in the breeze there was painted on that sign the head of George the third of England because England had a lot of invested in America of that type.

But while he slept during that century they had painted over the face of George the third and they painted the face of another George there, namely George Washington. Now the only thing that my teacher left in my little mind was that the man slept for a hundred years.

That is not the point of the story. The point of the story surely is this, that that man slept through a revolution. And I suggest to you tonight that that's exactly what the church of Jesus Christ is doing.

Sleeping during the greatest revolution in history, morally, intellectually, philosophically, scientifically, I don't care which dimension you take it in. This is the most topsy-turvy, unanchored spirit of humanity.

When the church ought to be going forth like a mighty army, we're like a bunch of boy scouts with a scapestive. I believe that every church ought to have a great map of the world and have numbers on it reminding us of how many heathen people there are.

And I think we should know the population of the world. The greatest military strategist in history. Hitler was another genius. Unquestionably he was a genius. He was a perverted genius but he was a genius.

He sat in the bloody muddy trenches of France and he told people that one day he would conquer the world. They sneered and said he's only got Charlie Chaplin's mustache and one stripe on his arm and don't be afraid of it.

But you talk about dedication, you talk about sleepless nights. What did he do? When other men went to sleep he got up there in a little quiet place and he read and re-read the manipulations and the strategy of Napoleon.

Did he depend on the Holy Spirit? No. He found the most expert medium, spiritist medium in the world and she led him every time to success until the last time. He copied his strategy I say from Napoleon.

Napoleon one day envious put a map out. He called his generals together and on that map, like so many maps of all, there was a little country of England, just a little red spot and he said with anger, dang it's that red spot.

If it wasn't for that red spot I could conquer the world. You and I need to look at Calvary tonight and say to the world, the flesh and the devil, if it wasn't for that red spot you could sink the world but you can't.

If we learn to appropriate what Calvary really means. Then turning to his generals he snapped them to a post and he said look. He plunged his finger on the outline of a great country with his index finger he ran around it and he said gentlemen there lies a sleeping giant.

Let it sleep because he said if that nation ever discovers its mineral potential and harnesses that to its manpower if that sleeping giant ever stirs and begins to stride over the world she'll master the world.

He said that prior to conquering, prior to the battle of Waterloo which of course he lost on the 18th of June in 1815. There lies a sleeping giant. Let it sleep because if that nation discovers its hidden potential and harnesses it to its manpower she'll shake the whole world.

It was the country of China which is the biggest headache to America or Russia tonight. As I said last night in another 30 years the population of that one country will be three or four times the population of the United States.

They'll have a thousand million people and the reason that she wants to go on in Vietnam and she'd be happy to lose a hundred thousand men, a hundred million men I mean. There's got to be 300 million plates of rice a day less.

It wouldn't make any difference if she does continue the war another 20 years. After all let's don't forget this whatever headache America has about it tonight. Fought 15 years and then de Gaulle gave up on it and said let America pick up the tab.

They shed their blood and they'd been fighting it 15 years before we took it over. And one of the great men in America said not long ago it could go on another 20 years. And another outstanding man in politics addressed the high school not long ago and he said you boys you 16, 17 get ready for 10 more years of war.

And he wants the war to go on because she wants she wants the rice fields, she wants to feed those millions. But forgetting the politics there again. And again I say this is our headache. Now we're beginning to get more shaky because well things are getting bad.

Yesterday the Japanese put a thing in orbit and that's terrible and they're anti-American and they're very arrogant about it. And China has got the bottom bomb and we're a bit nervous about this too.

But forgetting even the political picture. Instead of seeing that little corpulent Corsican cocky Corsican standing there saying God is a great country let it sleep if it wakes and harnesses its manpower to its mineral power it will shake the world.

Instead of seeing that I suggest to you Christian friends tonight you see Satan standing there. And he says to every demon in hell and every power he can harness look there is the church of Jesus Christ asleep.

Let it sleep. Because he says if the church ever discovers the power of the Holy Ghost, the power of the blood of Jesus Christ and every believer really gets into harness they're going to shake earth and hell and sky.

And so he keeps us blinded to the potential. He keeps saying we keep singing mercy drops but for a shower. They were singing that 40 years ago in the Methodist church when I could only just see over the pew of 50 years ago.

Samson, Consecration, and the Holy Ghost

In God to me this man is a classic example. Sure he doesn't belong to priesthood but God wants a man in an emergency and he finds this man Samson born a barren woman. Like John Baptist we mentioned last night was born a barren woman.

This is the most barren age. Our altars are barren apart from the pressure we put on for folks to come up every week so the altar doesn't mean anything anymore. We go so often and give God a down payment and a few hot tears and the pastor says nice to see you coming up to consecrate again.

Consecrate what? Can he consecrate corruption? Can he consecrate bad temples and lusts? However it's not consecration we need it's cleansing we need. And then the endowment of power. But here is a man who to me is the classic example again of a spirit anointed man because before he does exploits you read over and over and over again the spirit of the Lord rested upon him.

And dear brother Jimmy's right half a million dollars on that altar tonight would be no substitute for the Holy Ghost. And if you wrote God a check for a million dollars he'd turn it down and say your money perished with you.

You cannot buy the Holy Ghost and brother am I glad. I went to a conference a while ago the international conference of a great group. The platform was embroidered with millionaires and multi-millionaires they'd flown in on their own planes.

And I had the audacity to turn around and say if you gentlemen could do it you'd pull out your fat checkbooks tonight and you'd sign the Holy Ghost up and you'd buy the Holy Ghost and you'd have him serving your cause.

But gentlemen I have to tell you he still says your money perished with you. They didn't give me enough money to get home. I'm glad we can't organize the Holy Ghost. I'm glad you can't get him to join a denomination or a society.

You can't get him to come because you're wearing a crown of fabulous learning. No sir he will not come. He comes right as an aching heart. He comes right as an empty heart. He comes right as a cleansed heart.

He comes where he can indwell every part of the personality. And you can't have him on the installment system and you can't have little bits of the Holy Ghost. It's all or nothing. And here is a man I say who is a classical example of the spirits in life.

The spirit of the Lord rested mightily upon him. And if we had gone further down in Hebrews as we've done for two mornings you remember at the end the preachers like me run out of time and he says time would fail me to tell of Gideon and David and Barak and Jephthah and our Samson who threw faith.

I thought it was his muscles. No it wasn't his muscles. You see we've read so much in Greek mythology or we've read so many fairy stories. We've heard about Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders. We've heard about Hercules kicking a range of mountains over.

Or if you're not so well up in classics Jack and the Beanstalk on your level. They can do so many wonderful things and we've transferred our thinking. If a man is a colossus he must be like Mr. Texas only about two feet taller and have bigger biceps and bigger muscles because this is a case of strength.

Listen the woman wasn't stupid. You think she'd say to a man 15 feet high what is the secret of thy great strength? Pretty obvious isn't it? I think this man was maybe six inches smaller than anybody else not six inches taller.

His chest wasn't so big or his muscles. Because if you still think he was a giant or Hercules what are you going to do with the scripture that says not by what might nor by but by my saith the Lord of hosts.

And yet this man is able to do what other men cannot do. He goes into an area and when he goes in the enemies of God say now we've got him and we're going to hold him here. And he just stretches and he gets up and he says I better go home.

They're not going to knock the gatekeeper up so he lifts the gates up and he takes the gates a mile and a half up on a hilltop. Didn't even sweat about it just pick the whole thing up and carry them away.

I guess they had a problem getting them back. But he just carried them away and didn't think it was anything. Why should it be? Paul is operating under supernatural power. Most of us have never seen it.

I think I don't I don't for a minute condemn the kids that are rebelling in these days. Do you know why? Because we've never shown them Holy Ghost power. We've preached sermons to them. We've lectured to them.

We've told them that Jesus is risen from the dead. We've told them there's a third person in the trinity. But when it comes to exhibiting that power brother we just haven't demonstrated that power. And so they think we're just phonograph records in the pulpit and we're doing an awful lot to hold the kingdom lest it should come apart.

We're doing an awful lot to try and defend God's purity and God's holiness and God's son. We're defending him. Well as minister Spurgeon used to say and you'll agree with a Baptist like that I'm sure.

If you release the Bible you don't need a sword. Pardon me. If you release a lion you don't need to walk in front of it with a sword. It can take care of itself. Well by the same token once the Holy Ghost comes on man or woman you don't need any excuse.

You don't need to defend. He'll do the work. He lifts the gates of Gaza and he goes away. Do you know why it says it was through faith? Because there were conditions that God had laid down. This man was a Nazirite.

The Nazirite Vow and the Cost of Worldly Pleasure

And as a Nazirite there were three things he couldn't do. One he couldn't drink wine. Two he couldn't touch anything that was dead. Three he couldn't have his hair cut. He couldn't touch wine because it makes Mary the heart of man and he gets out of condition and does foolish things.

He must not drink wine. A son of world of pleasure. Yes sirree we've all made vows as we've heard tonight. Lord I look look after this I'm not going to stay up any more nights and watch TV. And brother two nights after this you'll be there watching the thing.

I was in a church where God gave us a touch of revival and before the week's out they were offering three four five hundred dollar TV sets for fifty and a hundred dollars and the fellow said I don't know how to get rid of them.

Well I said I'll help you tomorrow let's get a boat we'll go out in the lake and make baptists of the whole lot of them. Let's sink the whole lot in the lake. That's all you can put yourself out there out of reach of temptation sometime.

How easy to make vows. He must not do it. You see there's never any sale price at God's counter. He still demands all. All we say tonight all for let my hands perform his bidding let my feet walk in his ways let my eyes see Jesus only.

That man that had never seen Jesus before and never heard him preach and never seen a miracle he quit his business right there and left all and followed him. Would you do it? Will you do it tonight with all you know about him?

A thousand times more trouble at the judgment seat than he had. You know the complete revelation you know the doctrine you've been to bible school you've been to seminary you're a big shot you have a pulpit you teach people.

Oh brother are you in for trouble at the judgment seat. Book is gonna rise in condemnation against us. God's gonna say you bunch of unbelieving believers. I wrote that and you say to somebody now son if you bring all your dirty sins you know God says him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out.

You believe him and take what he has. Well why don't you do that for healing? Why don't you do that for a life? If you tell the kid to do it you ought to do it didn't you? If God says you'll send revival we ought to believe him shouldn't we?

If God says you're to fast he doesn't say if you fast he says when you fast. He doesn't say when we sin he says if we sin. But he doesn't say if you fast he says when you fast don't believe. This is a condition it's always been a condition.

You can't touch wine it's a sign of worldly pleasure. You can't touch any bone that's dead it's a type of worldly people are dead in transgressions and in sin. I was preaching in Minnesota some years ago and I said maybe some of you are having trouble because you're you're harnessed in business with an ungodly fellow.

No wonder your business a man about six feet three or four one of those big Swedish men stood up and he said preacher don't preach anymore will you pray for me? I'm in business with my brother and the business is going down and I give him his money and he gambles and he drinks and I'm going to have to get out of this.

Came back to church next night he said I walked in the office this morning and I said to my brother look I'm not staying in business with you. Well I'm not staying in business he said I paid him out right there and my burden's gone and God's going to bless me and he did.

He broke right off there what fellowship of light with darkness what part of he that believeth with an infinite. He gave it up right on the spot. You can't have you can't have worldly people and then he had to let his hair grow.

Oh yes he had to have a nice roll of hair in the back of his neck and people would point the finger and say he's effeminate isn't he? He looks like a woman in other words he had to bear reproach. We don't like that do we?

What would my mother-in-law say? What would the neighbors think? I mean if we do oh yes yes yes Lord I'm dead to everything except scorn. Oh some of us can stand the the the fist of adversity is the finger of scorn we can't stand.

Ridicule. To be on your level I'm not going to try and get it. You see because he kept these three conditions of his faith the anointing of God is upon him. Now this man was normal and very abnormal. One thing that the Lord burdened me early in the morning this morning about this particular section of this this marvelous story that I won't try to go through tonight is this.

That you see if Samson is a type of a spirit-filled man and I think he is. Then it says he was going down to Timnath and when he went to Timnath he could go this way or he could go that way. And people said you mustn't go that way.

Why not? There's a lion in the way. Now if Samson is a type of a spirit-filled believer surely the lion is a type of the devil that goth about. There's a roaring lion speaking whom he may devour. And what did Samson do?

Well Samson took his father and mother with him and he got down the road and he said dad ma 'am would you sit around the corner a minute I've a bit of business to do. And he went and the lion sprang at him and he took the lion and he ranted as though it were a kid of the goat.

Now that's very wonderful. I think the next thing is almost most wonderful. Do you know why? Because he never told his father and mother he'd done it. He said nothing about it. We wouldn't do it that way.

We'd stretch that lion out. We'd get a trophy picture. We'd measure it from the first whisker on its nose to the last whisker on its tail and we'd say this is the longest, strongest, heaviest, fiercest, terriblest lion that ever walked on the face of the earth.

And I did it by myself. But Samson threw a lion and he said nothing about it. Because the power was not his. It wasn't native power. It was supernatural. It would have been confirmed by the thing. Now tell me this, does the devil push you around or you do push the devil around?

I think again when we get to heaven one of the embarrassments will be to realize again that Jesus Christ says I give you power. Come on now preacher. Come on deacon. Come on Sunday school teacher. Come on father at home.

With your kids that are so. God says in his word Jesus says I give you power not over the devil but over all power of the enemy. Now isn't that something. I have a chapter in one of my books and lots of people have commented on it because the title of it is this, Known in Hell.

Spiritual Authority and Being Known in Hell

Well Mr. Preacher I know you'd like to be known at headquarters. They might promote you to a bigger church. Got any ambition to be known in hell? He goes I don't think you're worth a hell of beans till you are known there.

Remember somebody said one day you know if you want to climb up and be important you have to learn the formula and if you cast out evil spirits oh brother you've got it made. The crowd will come and all you have to do is go to someone possessed with an evil spirit and say in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth come out of him and the spirit will come out.

And the fellow said well thank you. I'll get my brothers to come along. They found someone possessed of an evil spirit and they began to say come out of him now evil and to the amazement of the man maybe the evil spirit came out.

But when Jesus brought an evil spirit out he always sent them somewhere because they can't lift it unbodied as far as I know. They must live somewhere in personality. The man got the spirit to come out but when the spirit came out he immediately jumped on the preacher and beat him up and he knocked him around and kicked him and bruised him and the poor old preacher thought good night what's gone wrong.

I thought I got the victory and he went back and when he went back the spirit there said to him and Jesus I know never heard of you what authority of you and Paul we had a headache every day you know the devil the devil took a get everybody at half day off in hell.

I think when Paul died he said we're not going to see men like that anymore. They'll stand up and say I am crucified with Christ nevertheless but don't take any notice of them. It's only verb you know verbal it's only sweet language they're not crucified.

All you have to do is pass to go past your house twice and say oh you see he's been to that house three times and hasn't been in our house once. Did you ever hear a crucified man talk back. Did you ever hear a dead man tell us anything anybody else heard.

Yeah you certainly knew Jesus. Because everything that Jesus did Paul did. Didn't he. Didn't he undo every burdens. Didn't he let the oppressed go free. Didn't even raise the dead. Well we can't even raise the living.

Never mind the dead. We can't even make people tremble. Never mind demons tremble. But I'm convinced of this. The church is going to come back into the place of authority where she's going to bind the powers of darkness.

I used to have a little old man came to a church I passed that I didn't care if he didn't come any meeting in the week as long as he came to the prayer meeting on a Wednesday night and he come right down to the front and sit under my nose.

And somewhere in that prayer meeting whatever he prayed. There were two things he always prayed and they were as fresh as manna from heaven every day somewhere in his praying after he preambled a little he'd get around and then suddenly say lord teach us what is fresh and what is spirit spirit.

And he paused. Everybody knew what was coming. Teach us how to bind and how to loose in my simple poor English tonight. I want to tell you I don't know how to put it any better any any better way. I want to tell you that I believe the devil is getting away with too much tonight because Jesus failed because we fail.

Spiritual Warfare and Persistent Prayer

Doesn't Ephesians 6 say that when you put on the whole armor and brother you better not pray without it. I've said more than once over the prayer meeting room in our churches we should put we wrestle not a leader there.

You wrestle not. Our prayer meetings are much more than giving god a shopping list. And lord do do you know we need that new organ in the church. Amen. Thank you. Hey John how are you going on there. You're going fishing Friday all in the same boat.

I'm going to pray with these there brother. I think I I think I can say Jimmy. I come to Jimmy's church every Sunday morning at least not in the flesh but in the spirit. But I'm going to join I'll be far away with these brethren in prayer these days if they mean business for god to to see god move in this day.

And if you live within 50 miles why don't you come and join them one night. That's the best thing you could do. I've never been in a city in England as a pastor. But what I've gathered other preachers of any kind any breed as long as they were true about the blood and about the book and about the coming of Jesus and the physical resurrection.

I've invited them all and we put we prayed through nights. When my dear wife was at home we had one little baby and I used to say to the boys let's get praying. Now it's almost 10 o 'clock. Let's get praying boys.

You know the Germans will be here at two o 'clock. And every night we prayed. They came between 10 minutes to two and two o 'clock in the morning the Germans would come the sirens would go. And you had to vacate the vacate the building and we creeped down the side of the wall so the shrapnel wouldn't follow us.

But we never quit. You wrestle not trying to write a book right now on the church that is is not the church that was. And on the editor of the book is about the praying that the church doesn't pray as the early church used to pray when I was a little boy in England.

They used to talk about two men. One that lived in Latvia I forget his name. It began with p if I remember right. Another man that lived in Germany by the name of Blumhart man had a gift in prayer. I believe there is a gift in prayer.

There's a gift of faith in prayer at the time. And I used to go to conferences to sing. They don't ask me anymore. Now you can understand why they don't ask me to go sing anymore. Some people ask me to preach now and again.

Then one day and she said to me did you know John Hyde. I said no I know who he is. Did you ever preach at the cyclops convention in India. No I've been to India but I haven't preached there. Oh she said Mr. Rainiel it was something to to be in a meeting when John Hyde prayed.

I said I guess it was. She said you know a friend of mine said the greatest privilege on earth that I think I could have. Better than going to Buckingham Palace. Better than having dinner with a Maharaja somebody.

Mr. Hyde could I join you in prayer one day. And he said all right brother in the morning at nine o 'clock and he said I went in his prayer room at nine o 'clock on the campus on the on the grounds of this conference and shut the door.

There's only a little room. And he said it was nine o 'clock when I went in and by 15 minutes after nine John Hyde hadn't prayed. So I thought he must be waiting for me. And he said I prayed. Well I'm not sure I prayed but I said a prayer.

And then he said about a quarter to ten. I looked a quarter to ten. John Hyde began to pray. And he hadn't been praying more than half an hour. And knock at the door. Well I'm not going to the door. This is the only chance I'll ever have to pray with this man.

I'm staying here. Well you can keep knocking. I'm not going to open the door. If John Hyde doesn't open it. They don't want me anyhow. They want him. Well I'm not going to the door anyhow. Then the door opened and somebody said brother Hyde it's ten minutes of three.

And they're expecting you to speak at three o 'clock. Ten minutes of three. Nonsense. And now been praying from quarter to ten to quarter to three. Can't believe it. Oh he said how he wrestled in prayer.

How he wrestled in prayer. And as soon as the conference was over they would say brother Hyde can you make it back next year. Not to preach not to sing. You know what this woman said. They used to say.

You know when John Hyde comes the Holy Ghost comes. And if you don't think that's true. You know Wilbur Chapman one of the great evangelists he preached in Hereford. Or Hereford as you say where those white-faced cattle come from.

They come from Hereford in England. And Wilbur Chapman preached for four days to a crowded house and there wasn't a single soul saved. On the Thursday morning John Hyde came into town and somebody said there's another American here.

Who is it. A fellow called Wilbur Chapman. How are his meetings going. Nothing doing. We don't understand why you get excited. We've got better preachers in England. He's got a big crowd. There hasn't been a single soul saved.

Now what would you like for lunch. Would you please leave me in a room. I don't want to see anyone till after the meeting tonight. That night there was a break. The congregation broke up. The altars were filled with weeping repenting people all over the world.

Afterwards Wilbur Chapman said Thursday a certain day John Hyde came to town. And when John Hyde came to town the Holy Ghost came to town. Brother. That's the kind of reputation to have isn't it. Pastor Bloomheart used to take people on his heart particularly people demon possessed.

And sometimes in a matter of hours they were delivered and they were leaping and praising God. But one day he hit a roadblock. There's a girl and the devil drove her and she'd wallow on the floor and she'd spit and she'd fall and she'd blaspheme and carry on.

And the more he prayed the more angry the spirit got before one or two people he says I pledge myself to God but I'll keep on the burden until that girl is released. I don't care if it takes weeks or months.