The End Times (Luke 17-26) - Part 2 — Leonard Ravenhill

Judgment on Cities That Have Seen Spiritual Light

It would almost send us mad, oh you're an old man, you're frail, maybe you think so. I weep as much as I laugh, I spend more times in quietness for America than you Yankees do. Let me ask you a very simple thing and yet a very profound thing.

What does, pardon me, what I think was the twelfth chapter in the gospel according to Matthew? These solemn words, I can hardly see them to tell you myself. Matthew chapter 11, then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of the mighty works were done and they repented not.

Warned to thee, Chorazin, warned to thee, Bethsaida, for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Dear God, I'm getting more, I'm getting more magazines on prophecy and prophets than ever in my life.

Do you know what? I guarantee if the Old Testament prophets, Isaiah was here and Jeremiah, and they read that we have a million abortions, do you know in America since 1973 we've liquidated 25 million babies in a Christian country with the highest rate in the world?

America’s Moral Accountability

Oh, I hear two preachers saying, I've had an invitation to preach in Russia, anywhere I like. Dear God, if I got that, I'd put my head in a bucket. I'd be disgusted. Am I so inoffensive in what I preach?

Am I so acceptable to devilish communists that I can go anywhere and say, oh, nothing will happen? After all, look at America, they preach every day, they radio every day, they have the highest rate of divorce every day, they have the highest rate of abortions in the world, they have the highest rate of drunkards.

We have 10 million drunkards. How many millions have we on drugs that we know of? And this canker is eating. As Gibbons said in the decline and all of the fall of the Roman Empire, it wasn't destroyed.

Every peroration of Roman had he would point and say, Carthage must be destroyed, but Carthage did not destroy Rome, Rome destroyed itself. Nobody will destroy America, we'll destroy ourselves. But let me say again, I see today, Sodom is England and Gomorrah is America.

If the mighty works that have been done in America and England had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, they would have repented. Let me go back a second there and say, if true prophets were true prophets, they'd be going down the street these days with sackcloth and bare feet, with a hand in the air saying, oh, America, America, our girls, the mothers, when they're only children.

The news told us before we left home there, there's a new plague in America. Children nine and 10 years of age have venereal disease. You know AIDS is not a disease. You people at 50 years of age never heard of AIDS in your day or herpes.

They were invented, they were injected into the system to destroy Western civilization. I can give you a document on that. The monster who wrote that is still working for the American government under cover.

He's a communist. We're trapped. There's no way out. We're a broken nation. We're broken economically, we're broken financially, we're millions of dollars in debt, we can't pay for our armaments, our homes are broken, lives are broken, minds are broken by drugs, bodies are broken by sin, but the church isn't heartbroken about it.

If I really were as sensitive as I should be, I'd be walking down the street in bare feet with sackcloth, my hands up and saying, oh God, have mercy on America. Woe unto America, woe unto England. Thou that killest the prophets.

England’s Spiritual Decline

Yes, I'm English, okay. Under the guidance of God, and England gave the world the Bible. Under the guidance of God, England gave the greatest revival in history through Methodism. It was born in England.

The second greatest revival was the Salvation Army Revival. They went to 70 countries in 90 years in England, and yet England is the most rotten of any country in the earth just now. Woe unto England, all the light you've had.

Do you think they had 600 million Bibles in Sodom? No, but America has 600 million Bibles, 26 translations. I'll tell you what, I've been in other countries. I say, is my mail here? Yes, I sort it out and I look for my letters from Martha.

None matter how many others I have, I read Martha's letters first. Supposing I went home and said, darling, I've been so busy, you know, meetings, morning, noon, and night, and I haven't had time, but I've got my satchel.

I've got every letter you ever sent. Let's sit down and read them together. Wouldn't that be wonderful? How much have you read of God's love letter today? You say, I love you. No, you don't. You love TV.

You didn't pray for two hours. There's a million young men. I weep when I watch TV. A young man this morning, crawling on his belly, throws himself down with his gun. He says, it's one thing in America to practice when there's no enemy there, but there's somebody there wanting to shoot me before I shoot him, and the tears are coming down his face.

The other week, when 27 young sailors went back to their ship, and the boat sank at the side of the ship, then afterwards, the funeral service, it showed all the sailors, some of them from the boat, and there's a young lady with a baby on her shoulder, patting it.

A baby will never see its daddy. There are young women weeping tonight. The soldier said, it's one thing to practice and fall down in the sand outside of California somewhere, but out there, there's a guy who wants to get me, and I'm afraid somebody may lob a bomb over my head, and we're going to see people blinded in the streets.

We're going to see all kinds of judgment coming, but the church isn't praying. I don't see men walking the streets. You talk about traveling, they'll laugh at you in the church. We don't groan. Is it true that hell has no exits?

There are a million ways into hell. There's not one way out. Tell me this. Do you think that Sodom had one Bible school? Do you think that Gomorrah had one seminary? Do you know how many seminaries there are in America?

I checked with Billy Graham's office. There are 540 Bible schools in America and Canada, and 250 seminaries. Altogether that's 700, 700 Bible schools and seminaries. If they sent one man the flame for God out a year, in the last 10 years, that's 700 men with prophetic urgency, 700 men that don't care whether they live or die.

The Failure of Modern Preaching

What's wrong with our preaching? Our modern preaching has failed to make sin repulsive, and it's failed to make Jesus attractive. Our gospel has failed. Come on, in God's name, how do you think? I maybe quoted this before, but I quote it often to myself.

In the days of Charles II, Charles II sent for John Owen, Dr. John Owen, the great preacher, the greatest preacher in the world, and John Owen wore his robes. He preached before Parliament. He preached when other people came from other countries.

Here's John Owen with his golden oratory, his great exposition of the Scripture, and Charles II sent for him. And so Bunyan says, well, no, rather, who was I talking about? No, I got a mix of them. Or Charles II says, Dr. Owen, where hast thou been?

In his old English, so he said, well, I've been about your business partly. Yes, but he said, Dr. Owen, why dost thou go hear that babbling Baptist, that tinker? Have you been listening to Bunyan? He said, yes, sir, but Bunyan doesn't know Greek.

He doesn't know Hebrew. He said, no, he doesn't. But he said, do you listen to him? He said, I walked the other day for five miles to hear him in the rain, and the building was leaking. And he said, you listen to him?

He said, sir, I stood and listened to that tinker talking about the things of God, and he said, I take off all my robes and everything I have to preach like him. Why? Oh, come on, God doesn't make men in a weekend.

John Bunyan spent 15 years in jail. John Knox used to pray, give me Scotland or I die, but he spent 12 years in jail in France before that. These men had an anointing that somehow we don't have. It's got to come back.

I don't want people pointing to some of you preachers at the judgment seat and saying, if you cared more for my soul, I would have been born of the Spirit of God, but you're so busy doing other things, you couldn't travel in birth.

I would love to have heard some of these men praying, praying again in the Holy Ghost. No sirree. Sodom didn't have a Bible school. Gomorrah didn't have a seminary. Sodom and Gomorrah didn't have six million Bibles.

Sodom and Gomorrah didn't have camp meetings. Sodom and Gomorrah didn't have singing parties going around. We live in the most enlightened days, but wait a minute, darkness is coming. A fellow wrote a book a couple of years ago, didn't he, what is it called, This Present Darkness?

Many of you read it. Then he wrote another one after that, Piercing This Present Darkness. The first one sold half a million copies and sold, next one sold, it made him a millionaire in two years. I don't care about that.

We're living in the darkest period and we're going into further darkness. I told some of the dear fellows here last year, I'm not a genius, I don't know much, but I know when God speaks, and God told me in 1988 that 1990 to 92 will be the two darkest years in American history.

And I said at the end of January, in February onward is as black as night. I can see now because it's going to be that. We're planting into it to the nations, but wait a minute, do you know why we're planting in darkness?

The Church Has Given Darkness to the World

This present darkness is a gift from the church to a dying, doomed, damned world. What do you mean it's a gift from the church? For this reason, I can remember 80 years ago as a little kid, I'd take my daddy's hand, we'd go to the street corner, listen to the Salvation Army, they had a marvelous street meeting every week.

I could go to another part of the city, the Pentecostals were there, go to another part of the city, the Methodists were there, go to another part of the city, and the Baptists were there. In other words, we had street meetings, but no street meetings relieved the streets in total darkness.

Then there's a prayer meeting, it doesn't exist in most churches anymore, the light has gone out in the sanctuary. Then there's a Sunday night meeting. Most churches in America don't have a Sunday night meeting, so there's darkness in the street because of the church, there's darkness in the prayer meeting because of the church, there's darkness in the church because the church is too lazy to come on Sunday night.

But worst of all, do you know where the greatest darkness is? It's in your house, preacher. I wonder how many of you parents, I don't care to embarrass you, I'd love to do it. How many of you fathers are not spiritual fathers, or you're a deacon in the church, How many of you have family prayers every day in your home?

It's dark enough in the streets, it's dark enough in... Do you know, soon you'll be able to go to Russia and find a Bible in church in Russia, where you can't find, in school in Russia, you can't find one in America.

I understand they've just passed a law in England that at least once a week children must be taught the Bible, I'm glad of that. But it's dark in the schools, we took the lamps out, we took ten lights out of every classroom, the Ten Commandments.

You can run any nation in the world on the Ten Commandments, you can run no nation in the world without them. Now every, I'm glad my daddy, good old Methodist, where you used to pray with us every day of our lives, even when I got to twenty years of age, I couldn't go to work in the morning, Daddy was up first with the Bible and we prayed and we read, Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

So you took ten, you took the Bible out of school, you took the lamp out and you turned the kids out to walk in darkness. By law you can't pray in school, by law you can't read the Bible. Well where are we going?

The Days of Noah and the Coming Judgment

It's exactly as it was in the days of Noah. Noah, no sorry, Noah didn't have three thousand radio stations in its day, I mean Sodom and Gomorrah didn't have three thousand radio stations which there are in America which give at least some little squeak as it were of the Bible or singing gospel hymns every day.

I'm trying to add up here a minute and think again how privileged. You can go almost anywhere and buy a Bible, you can turn on the radio and get the Bible, you can go to a church somewhere and find some spiritually minded people and yet by and large people are exactly as they were in the days of Noah.

What did they do? For a hundred and twenty years they saw a man they couldn't lay their finger on him morally. He never did wrong, he never did a dirty business deal, he was a righteous man. People want to accept righteousness.

Dear God what are we going to do? Where's that? Listen to what it says in Ezekiel. Well I should have read, let me go back in that sixth chapter, do you know why this man was always online? Because he knew that time was running out because it says in the sixth chapter, my spirit shall not always strive with man.

How much longer is God going to give us a free country? How much longer are we going to have time to read the word of God? How much longer are we going to have time to pray? My spirit shall not always strive with man, therefore the Holy Ghost was striving with them then about their sin, about their unrighteousness, but they totally ignored the whole thing.

Yesterday we've camp meetings, we've daily vacation Bible schools for children, and then we have Christian camps for children, and yet even when they get to a teenage they don't even know the Lord. You see, the difference in our day, we have a gospel which is not effective.

I love that great old hymn, not because it's English, Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me, you remember that hymn? Let me hide myself in thee, do you know what that man said? He wasn't a holiness preacher, he said this, be of sin, the what?

The double cure. We don't have a double cure message anymore. The weakness of modern Pentecostalism and Charismatics is, their stress is on power, not purity. But Peter remembered on the day of Pentecost, his heart was purified, he says in Acts 15, 8 and 9.

Purity, Holiness, and the Purpose of Christ’s Coming

And listen, you'll not get to heaven because of anything else except purity. You can't get there by reason of power or any other thing. I was thinking of that word there, why is the word in Titus? Why did Jesus come into the world?

You say to save sinners and rescue us from hell, he didn't say that. What did he say? Well, he said in the 17th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, I've come into the world for one reason, that they may know thee, the only true God.

Lecky, the secular historian, admits when the bloody revolution swept over France, and they swept the monarchy into the garbage can, and the bloody revolution came almost to England, Lecky, a secular historian, said God stopped that bloodbath over England because of two men, John and Charles Wesley, no sir, John Wesley, Charles Wesley, and Whitefield were the three men.

But then you find all the time in the diary of Wesley, he says I went to here, I went to Manchester, I went to Birmingham, and I offered men Christ. We don't offer people Christ. We offer them forgiveness.

We offer them peace. We offer them pardon. But he said I offered men Christ. The greatest thing in the world is you can say this side of eternity is that Christ liveth in me. Let me give you this wonderful little thing I love from Titus so much.

Paul writing to Titus says, he talks about men being lovers of themselves again, but then when you come down to verse, pardon me, verse 11 in 2, I don't know which one it is. I can't find the verse. What verse is it in Titus?

Okay, here we have it. Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed and glorious hope, the appearing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

So there, that's what Jesus came to do, to save us from our sins, denying ungodliness and unworldly lusts. We should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If I asked you tonight, do you believe Jesus may come soon, you'd say I believe he's coming today maybe. Well, listen, I want to tell you something. If you believe that Jesus Christ may come today, you're walking in absolute purity.

For when we see him, we should be like him. We shan't have half an hour to get ready. You won't have half an hour to run to the telephone and put right some of the wrong things in your life. You won't have time to suddenly become righteous, no sirree.

When we see him, we should be like him. So as it was in the day of Noah, and as far as I'm concerned, it's identical today. What did they do? For 120 years, they ignored him, but wait a minute, wait a minute before we finish.

The Ark as a Picture of Salvation

What do you think happened the very moment that the flood came? You see, Noah built an ark, he put one light at the top because there's only one light of the world. He put one door because there's only one door by which any man can enter in.

And he put the window up there because if he looked this way, you'd see all the bodies and junk and debris floating past. And they didn't know, Lord, do you want to look at that corruption? Okay, so you've got Noah in the ark.

What do you think happened a moment after, when the earth ripped up, when the thunder it came? He got in that old ark, it tossed everywhere. Do you think he was worried? Of course not. They had 120 years and they helped him maybe to carry wood, but just a minute, what happened at the end when he was corralling all the cattle?

Think of all the animals he put, he didn't get them all in half an hour. He built some place to keep them from wandering away. He's got animals here and animals there. What's he doing? Oh, he says it's coming very urgent.

They didn't care a bit. They didn't repent. They didn't say, who is this God? They just went on their way. Right until the very moment, it says, until the day Noah entered into the ark, they were married and given in marriage.

Noah said he, the others were buying land and doing all they wanted to do, but he isn't amassing a fortune. He's doing the will of God. The final thing is, suddenly there was a thundering. The skies went black.

People began to say, oh, say, you know, we better get serious about it. No, sirree, it's too late. The flood comes, it comes and people are running. Somebody said, I'll give you a thousand dollars for that horse.

They were riding everything they could and running away from the flood and it's coming on them and it goes up and up and up and up and up. And Noah went into the ark. They'd never seen rain. God watered the earth with dew.

But now he changes his plan and he waters the earth or he comes and floods the earth. Do you think they had a family rebellion? You say, Noah built the ark, but God shut the door and when God shuts the door, no man can open it.

When God opens the door, no man can shut it. Can you see them all around the ark screaming? I don't read that Noah threw them a lifeline. I don't think he began preaching compassion. He was in the ark and the ark was ripping and tore.

Do you think he worried a bit? Not at all. The first sermon Jesus preached was, come on to me and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me and I will give you rest. Noah in that ark was as satisfied and happy as though there was no storm, as though no industry had perished.

Every bit of capitalism had perished away, every bit of industry had gone, every unbeliever was lost. He didn't stand on the deck and weep about them. He preached 120 years. They ignored his voice, they ignored his warnings, they ignored his compassion.

A Call to Prayer and Personal Consecration

Isn't that what America does now? Do you think if we really loved God we'd have been at a football match this afternoon when this coming week hundreds and thousands of men, according to prediction, may be butchered, lying in desert sand bleeding while the wives at home are crying and babies that will never see their daddies?

You can't have God on our timetable, we've got to follow him. I thank God for what he's done in my life. But I believe like Phinney, I don't know if you do, but I do anyhow, I believe the repeated anointings, the repeating baptisms, and I'll tell you what, I want to go away at the end of this week different from when I came.

I've no scales on my eyes as far as I know. They couldn't see a thing, they couldn't hear, they couldn't understand. And yet it says God is long-suffering. How long-suffering has he been with you? He's been trying to get you into a channel of prayer.

He's been trying to get you to have habits of prayer. Oh, you'll start getting them now because your cousin's going to battle. Forget about our sins, our skins, let's get down with our sin issues and deal with that.

I'm glad for what God did in my life, but I tell you what, I'm more hungry for God now than ever in my life. I'm hungry for the glory of God. I'm more hungry for the power of God. I want to see God turn men inside out this week, and if he can turn us inside out, he'll turn the world upside down.

But you're not going to get it at bargain price. He'll burn every ambition you have, he'll burn every bit of covetous out of you, he'll burn every bit of fear out of you, he'll burn every bit of pride out of you, he'll burn every bit of laziness out of you.

He wants a channel that's cleansed, and then he'll indwell us, anoint us, fill us. Well, I've got to preach twice this coming week, so I didn't get all of my subject totally tonight, but I know what God's given me for the week, and I'm going to walk very close and listen to God.

Compassionate Sacrifice and the Cross

You know, it's so easy to sing, my Jesus I love thee, isn't it, until it comes to the issue and pouring out our lives. There's a brother, I haven't read much of him, Tony, is his name Tony? Compoller?

Compoller? I picked up a book of his recently, it was about two o 'clock in the morning, it was going on my nightly prowl through the house. And I saw the book, I opened it, it seemed, you know, with no intention of reading much.

And I just read this, he said he'd been talking with a friend of his, a wonderful young American fellow, and he said he told him of an experience he had in England. This man went to live outside of London, of course they all catch the same train in the morning, the 8 .15 or whatever it is.

And he said he got in the train further out, and as it came in the train stopped and two smart Englishmen got in, they were three-piece suits, umbrellas, all the goods. And he said the train went for about ten minutes, and suddenly one of the men in front of him slumped in a pile in the middle of the, the seats were opposite each other in our trains, and the man slipped down there, and he was chewing his tongue, and the man suddenly got, the businessman ripped his coat off and folded it up and put it under the head of the man.

And he stayed with him until the man got sobered up. And then he lifted him up bodily and laid him on the bench seat, and kept fanning him and taking care of him. He put his finger in his mouth so he wouldn't choke.

And right to the depot in London, the man was supervising the poor guy that fell down. And just before he got out of the train, the other man said to him, I've never seen compassion like that. He said, are you his brother?

He said, no, I'm not his brother. He said, we were in the army together in America, and we went to Vietnam. We were away in the bushes, and he said the enemy shelled us, and he said I got a piece of shell in my body, and I couldn't walk.

And he said this man was wounded himself, but he picked me up on his back, slung me on his back, and for three days and nights, he carried me through the bush. He carried me through swollen streams. He slipped and slid and slid.

But he said he struggled with me for three, he didn't need to do it. There was nobody visible, could say I failed him. But he said I'm aware of the fact that this man was going to die. And he said, what do you do for him now?

He said, well, I just heard a few weeks ago of his condition. He can't work. He has three or four or five seizures a day, and he said I can't rest in America. He said I sold my house, I sold my business, and I've come to England to nurse this guy till he dies.

It may take him a few years, it doesn't matter, he said. When I was a dying man bleeding in the bush in a foreign country with all the mud on me and all the dirt, he said, this one man picked me up and carried me and staggered with me on his back for three days and three nights.

Can I do any less than give my life for him if need be, for the man who gave his life for me? I read that, and I went in my room and I really groaned before God, Lord, do I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died?

Does he really have every part of me? You know, this meeting could prepare the way for what God's going to do during this coming week. If you'll humble yourself before God, come on, Father, why haven't you had prayers in your home with those little children, are they going to grow up pagans?

This blessed book should be opened every day in your home. You should read them and counsel them, get them to memorize the Word of God. Time is running out on us. How much longer is God going to go with old judgment on America, I don't know, but it must be very near.

The Need for National Repentance

Again, we've had the greatest preachers in the world. We've had Finney in this country. We had the greatest preachers ever lived, according to Martin Lloyd-Jones. We had the fellow that preached sinners in the hands of an angry God.

You had Gilbert Tennant. You had the other tenant that worked with George Whitefield. This country has more Bibles than any other country in the world. This country has more Bible schools. This country has more, what's the other thing you call them, seminaries.

Every street corner has a church steeple on it nearly. How many Christian magazines do you think there are? I guarantee there are a thousand different magazines published every month in America. How many million tracts are given out?

Come on, in God's name, aren't you embarrassed? Or do you say it's him, or do you say it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer? I have no passion for the lost. I don't shed tears for my nation.

Well, you don't love it if you don't. I dare say this, if you don't pray over a lost nation, you're not even filled with the Holy Ghost. If you don't pray with passion, you can't be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Because we're told to pray in the Holy Ghost, and that's not necessarily praying in tongues, it's praying with the wisdom of the Holy Ghost, with the energy of the Holy Ghost, with the strength of the Holy Ghost, not bending under anything, governing this body so it doesn't make you sleep.

You sleep if you want to, or eat if you want to. You're governed by nothing but the indwelling Christ. If Christ dwells in you, he'll weep over America like he wept over Jerusalem. Time is running out, as it was in the days of Noah, as far as I'm concerned.

It's like that today. Our young people are totally lost. We're not slackening up in abortion. We're not lowering our multiplicity in crime. Come on, the church has lost its salt, it's lost its savour, it's lost its light.

Fathers, Family Altars, and Final Accountability

Father, what about you in the home? Are you that godly man God wants? One trouble we've had in America, preachers have pointed the way, now it's time to lead the way. Lead the way, be the father in the home, be the priest in your home.

Say my children are going to perish, and point to me at the judgment and say I didn't care, as it was in the days of Noah. God didn't give me this message just to stretch my lungs. There's an awful hold-off of unbelief, you know what I read today, and I've finished with it in Hebrews, you know what God did?

The children of Israel put blood over the door and they escaped judgment, and yet God says even though they've escaped judgment, I'll destroy them because of unbelief. The thing that cripples us in America and England is unbelief, we don't believe this blessed book.

We don't believe people go to hell forever if they don't repent. We don't believe there's an eternal reward for us, an eternal crown. No, I'm not going to sing, there's room at the cross. I'm going to tell you who you say, I'm humiliated, I don't love Christ like that.

I fail my family, I fail my church, my light doesn't shine. I say again, I'm not going to sing. If you can't make up your mind you're going to live a righteous life and a holy life by the power of the blood and the indwelling spirit of God, go home.

If you say no sir, I'm going to meet God tonight, well come and humble yourself before God. Say I can't go home like this, I must go home cleansed, I must go home a pardoned individual, I must go home with a new anointing, I must go home with a passion for the lost, I must go home to pray, I've never prayed, I pray a mantle of prayer will go on, everybody that names the name of Christ tonight for the next five or six days and then it will go on from there.

Pray, pray, pray, I know I've got to pray twice and I don't want to preach just to say words, I want to come boiling over, I don't care whether I sleep or not. I'm too old to care whether you like my preaching or you don't like it, I have to meet you at the judgment seat.

Final Appeal for Revival and Mercy

It's a terrible hour to live, it's a wonderful hour to live. We say oh that you would rend the heavens, God says rend your hearts. The seeking is not with God, it's with us. Pray break these people, oh God come and do, start the fire tonight, start the burn, start the birth thanks to God, oh God make this a terrible week for the devil, oh God of hosts, Lord start a fire in hearts that will be taken to harms, that people will start their family altars, family prayers, seek you Lord not because judgment may come but because there's mercy.

Right now is a day of mercy, now is the accepted time. Let's all pray for these folk who are here and there's room, push up and come and join us. You say I don't know whether I'm saved or not, do you think they knew if they were in the ark or not?

As soon as they were in the ark, they had peace? If you're in the ark, you have peace with God, you have peace that passes understanding. If you're in the ark of safety, you'll have a compassion for those struggling out in the darkness.

You just say to God now, break me and cleanse me, transform me by your divine power, Lord I pray you'll just take all of hearts here now, burn up all selfishness, all pride, all indifference. Lord give us a compassion for a dying world, give us a love for our loved ones who are lost, give us a love for our children that we failed, Lord give us a compassion.

We thank you for sparing us Lord, you could have cut us off before this, you could have cast us into hell, it would have served us right. We've been warned so many times, we've been begged so many times, we've been hurt so many times, we've been moved, but Lord tonight we bring a broken and contrite heart, grant the precious blood will cleanse and the spirit will come and occupy, Lord give some people a prayer time tonight they've never had in their lives before, let some pillows be wet with tears, let some people push aside food to seek God.

Oh God come in this emergency hour in America, the emergency hour in the world, the tyrants are ruling the world, wicked men want to destroy nations. We ask Father, honour your son, Lord I pray set up people from every unholy thing, every unholy ambition, even their careers maybe, Lord let the utmost parts of the earth feel this meeting, not just the others in the week, get mysteries out of this meeting, Lord get men who will pray in the Holy Ghost, men who will pray in the Holy Ghost, men who will be totally unhinged from everything which is unholy and handicapping them tonight, break fetters we pray, we seek only your glory.