(Clip) Prayer is Paramount — Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer as a Deliberate Spiritual Priority

But prayer is a secret, you know that you make up your mind. You're gonna give time to a prayer the devil will fight it more than anything else. Your phone will ring off the hook visitors will come. Somebody will say come and preach it our church.

The Decline of the Prayer Meeting

Why did they'll conduct a revival in somebody else's church when you're on his dead? That's nonsense. Every church in America nearly is filled Sunday morning. How many people you have in your prayer meeting?

The prayer meeting has almost died. We're seeking revival we're seeking healing we're seeking miracles. It's not that we need if we get God we gets all that's needed and revival is when God comes down.

Thirty Years of Intercession for America

Do you know that man Andrews God called him to go to? Israel and he mastered Hebrew and when he got there God said go back. He said but people gave him a do as I say go back Intercede for America, what did it do for 30 years from 10 o 'clock in the night to 5 o 'clock in the morning?

By himself. Oh you talk about David Brin and that wasn't I'm talking about out there. I'm talking about when I talked with When they carried him his little wooden casket out of that room. It was the first time he'd been out of the house in 12 years never out of the house.

Knowing God Beyond Religious Credentials

How does a man retain his fire every man that comes in my office and I get them from worldwide? I don't know why but they come and I say first tell me do you know God? Well, I have a degree. I didn't ask you about that.

Do you know God? When was your last encounter with God? When were you last prostrate in his presence? When did you last sit spellbound at his majesty? You don't know God. Because we don't know God. We don't have to worship.

We don't have to enter into his presence. We can tend to know a few theological shibboleths and other people have taught us Dear God, one of the leading men in the Southern Baptist Church a very dear friend of yours.

The Need for Anointing in Theological Education

I won't give you a clue after that my dear brother. He said to me recently said listen forget our seminaries. There's no anointing in them. Those professors are teaching their life lessons on Romans. They taught 10 years ago.

You can shake the dust off them. And every year they go back and say the same thing Romans in chapter 1 and then chapters 8 to 11 and chapters 2 to 2 Paragon say how can men sit and hear the word of the living God and not catch fire?

God’s Consuming Fire and the Birth of Revival

Our God is a consuming fire, I don't know does the devil care what we have. All he's worried about is that you catch fire and then your church catches fire. And the other thing let me say this I've got around a bit I know but I'm gonna get wound up and say what I want to say.

Revival in the Streets and the Holiness of God

You see the great revivals of Methodism were not in buildings. They were in the streets. The Salvation Army said England on fire. Wow. Not by buildings. You see we've lost sight of the majesty and holiness of God.

We don't take to our to the sanctuary subdued by God's all-mightiness and power and mercy. It's just a ritual. It's a formality. I Want to be one of the ten most wanted men in hell. I Jesus I know and Del I know that's why the devil's opposed him.