Moved by the Holy Ghost — Leonard Ravenhill

Keswick Convention and the Church of England

Very often people refer to the British political system at Westminster as being the mother of parliaments, and very often people refer to the Keswick Convention as being the mother of conventions. It was begun about 1885, and it was begun by the Church of England, would you believe that?

Opening Prayer for the Holy Ghost’s Presence

And one of the greatest hymns as far as I'm concerned was written by a bishop of the Church of England, Bishop Heber, and I want you to sing that hymn, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. And then we sing the second stanza too, holy, holy, all the saints adore thee.

Father we thank you tonight. We don't have to ascend into the heights to bring thee down, nor descend into the depths to bring thee up. But Lord you've even said that where two or three are gathered together in your name, you're there.

We ask you for the Lord and Master of ceremonies tonight. Speak Lord in the stillness as we wait on thee, hush our hearts to listen in expectancy. Speak O blessed Master in this quiet hour, let us see thy face Lord and feel thy touch of power.

For the words that thou speakest, they are life indeed, living bread from heaven, now my spirit feed. Lord I pray make this meeting a tragedy to the devil. Lord we've so often sung in our hymns, then shall all bondage cease and all fetters fall.

But Lord many of us are in bondage tonight. Break every fetter, liberate us, as we sang in that wonderful hymn of Wesley's tonight. He breaks the power of canceled sin and sets the prisoner free. Lord let nobody go out of this meeting with unanointed eyes.

Let nobody go out in the flesh. Maybe everyone go out in the spirit. Glorify thy great name. We'll give you praise in the name of him who makes this meeting possible, our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you be seated.

Jackie Pullinger and Costly Christian Service

I think it's 80 years, tomorrow afternoon, since I first went to a Saturday meeting. I was four years of age, so guess how old I am. And I remember 60 years ago, spending an afternoon with the most distinguished woman preacher in the world.

Her name was Catherine Booth. She was the daughter of the founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth. But just a few weeks ago, I spent some time, my precious Martha, with a woman that I think is the most anointed woman in the world today.

She hasn't just owned a penny, she hasn't got two dresses, nobody on her staff owns a car. She lives in a room 15 feet by 15. Her bathroom is four feet by four, with a toilet there. She has a little tap, a drip of water as big as your finger.

She catches water in it, and warms it, puts some soap on her head, and throws the water over her head, and that's the shower she has. The Queen, the other day, when she was in, where was she, in Miami.

She didn't drop in to see us, but anyhow. She helped Mr, what do you call him, Schwarzkopf, Schwarzkopf, can't say it. She gave him a knife. Well, she doesn't give that to ladies, she gives them an MBE, a member of the British Empire, and she gave that MBE to Jackie Pullinger, who I think is the most anointed woman in the world today.

I mean, to listen to her. We started our meeting with 2 ,500 people. In three days, we had 9 ,000 people there in the civic center in Anaheim, and she just reduced the whole place to tears and brokenness.

There was no thunder and shouting and roaring and voting and all that business. But one thing amongst others that really stuck in my heart was this. She said, there's only one place in the world where today they're having revival.

Do you know where it is? It's in America. God's left America long ago. We million-dollar crusades and nothing happens. We've had million-dollar crusades for 25 years. You can't tell me one city that's had revival through them.

We have 500 evangelists in America, we don't have one revivalist. Evangelists seek popularity, prophets shun it. The thing was this, well, she said, they're having revival in China, okay, and this is the country, remember, that Mr. Bush is trying to get us to link up with.

And she says, our young people, look at these young ladies here tonight, they go down the street, they go to a gospel meeting and disappear and they haven't been seen since. The communists keep gathering up truck, uh, van loads of young people and take them away, they disappear.

No politician's going to say that. I'd tell Mr. Bush if I got half a chance, but we want some cheap cotton or something from over there. We've nothing to take over there. In fact, some of the people over there say, don't bring us American evangelism.

One man said recently, young Americans come over here, they show it, they bring their guitars, they sing for three days, and by they go to America, live in luxury, but Jackie, you stayed with us. And she said, looking at the walls, she said, a man came out of prison recently, he'd been there 27 years for preaching the gospel, and when he came out, his face was the color of the wall, he'd been in solitary confinement for years, and the people sent news ahead he's coming back to his village.

He didn't have a Bible under his arm, he didn't have a little cassette, he'd just walked down the village street and the whole village came and repented, they knelt in the street and cried to God, there's a Christian, there's a man who for 26 years has been in prison, he's been beaten, he's been without food, he's been without, he's been in solitary confinement, and yet the glory of God is on him.

You see, we want to get the glory of God by coming to a meeting. She almost scorns those of us who go from meeting to meeting to meeting. I tell you, when I listened to that woman, I felt like, well, I had to follow her preaching as a matter of fact.

And I never felt as, well, I always feel I'm worthy of preaching anyhow, but to follow that amazing woman, I'll tell you how it happened, she was English as you would imagine, and she said to a vicar in the Church of England, I'm tired of giving a dollar for missions, I'm tired of stand up, sit down, say a prayer, do something, what shall I do?

And off the cuff he said, get on a boat and wherever it's topped, get off and stay the rest of your life. She did that, 19 years of age, playing a classical oboe in the, what do you call it, the Philharmonic there, and little thinking about what that oboe was going to mean anyhow.

Let me say this, she got on the boat, it stopped here, it stopped there, stopped at Singapore, stopped somewhere else, then it stopped in Hong Kong and she got off the boat. She was 19 years of age, she's still there at 44.

She goes to the gutter most. Martha said to her in our house, Jackie, what's the most difficult thing you've had? She smiled so sweetly and she said, Martha, I'm a very public person, I love people, I love people, but I love quietness.

My biggest difficulty when I went to Hong Kong was to share my bedroom for 18 years with prostitutes. Sometimes 12 of them on the floor, sometimes half a dozen men, sometimes criminals, the most wicked men that there are.

But she so lived there that people say, if you want to see a Christian, go see Jackie. I said, now, when I was talking to her, I was thinking when I sat with the daughter of William Booth, she was about 20 years of age, she wasn't very athletic, she had a curvature of the spine that she inherited from her mother, and William Booth, of course, used to kick everybody to the ends of the earth, but he said to his children, don't you go.

So Catherine, the second Catherine, said, I'm going to France. She went to the underworld of France and rented a building there, and within three weeks had revival. Professors from the Sorbonne were there, these long-bearded, wise men of the world.

Prostitutes were there. Men would come to the altar, take daggers out of the socks, take guns out of the socks and kneel there and weep. And here these title ladies of England left their stately homes.

You see, there's one thing that's more attractive than anything, and on God's name I tell you this, you never have to advertise a fire, whether it's in a man, whether it's in a church, whether it's in a community.

All we need is men and women on the fire. We don't need more money. We don't need more organization. We don't need broken, bankrupt actors to come and sit on the platform of our conferences. Forget it.

Let's go back to God. Well, there's my introduction. Shall I preach now? I could talk all night about exactly what I want. Let me give you a text and do something with it from the second letter of Peter, 2nd Peter chapter 1.

Have you got it now? I'm reading from the NIV, the never improved version, King James, King James, the never improved version. There it is, NIV. Oh, you just woke up, thank you. At least you're asleep, you're not asleep.

Second letter of Peter, chapter 1, and verse 20, and knowing this first, that prophecy of the scriptures have no private interpretation, for prophecy came not in the old time by the will of men, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Do you get that? What are prophets? Prophets are holy men. Prophets are lowly men. Prophets are lonely men. Prophets are direct. Prophets are daring. Prophets are difficult. In the last two years, I've traveled much of the country in conferences, up to eight to nine thousand people, with some of the most famous so-called prophets in the world today.

Then people say, do we have any prophets like Jeremiah? No, we don't. These are prophets of God. You see, the little church I went to in England, they taught what was very popular in England at the time.

They used to make the difference, and say this, and I've heard it on TV and you have years ago. The difference between the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament and the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. In the Old Testament, he was with them, and in the New Testament, he was in them.

That's not true. Look at the first epistle of Peter, and the first chapter, verse 9, 1 Peter 1 verse 9, Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls, of which salvation the prophets have inquired, search diligently and prophesy of the grace that shall be unto you, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ, which was in them.

The Spirit was in them. Then look for a moment at the third chapter of Acts, and verse 22, is that verse, I think it is. No, that's not the text, I wonder if it's been in, yes, I'll find it now. Acts 3, 22, okay, Moses, listen, Moses truly said unto you, A prophet your Lord your God shall raise up of your brethren like unto me.

Is that astounding? If Jesus said that, if Jesus said there was a prophet like me, and his name was Moses, that would be one thing. But God says, here's a man called Moses, and there'll be somebody raised up eventually who is like Moses.

What was Moses? He was an intercessor. He prayed like no other man that ever lived except Jesus. But let's go back again to that verse, in 2 Peter 1, holy men of God spake, did you get this? As they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Being Moved by the Holy Ghost in Crisis

Do you remember that story in Acts 26, is it, 27? Where Paul was on a ship, and there were 270 people on it, and the ship got in trouble, and they threw out the baggage, they threw out the lifeboats, they threw out everything they have.

It's a type of the church that's in darkness and going into further darkness. We're going to throw everybody overboard. Three years from now your money won't be worth a dime, not even the gold you stashed away.

We're going into the greatest tribulation the world has ever known, and the church isn't ready for it. And my prayer is the same as dear Joy's tonight. I mean I should be in Hong Kong tonight actually.

I should go from Hong Kong to Taiwan, Taiwan to New Zealand, New Zealand to somewhere else. But I'm where God wants me, and that's all that matters to me tonight. To be here where God is, to say something, to share something which is superior, important to you.

God is looking for men and women full of faith, and of the Holy Ghost. But it says that when they couldn't do anything with that ship, it says, well we let her drive. That same word in the Greek is used here, move by the Holy Ghost.

How does the Holy Ghost move? Doesn't it say in the beginning, he moved over the face of the earth? There was darkness over the face of the earth, there was chaos, and out of chaos he brought cosmos. What about these men here?

What do you do with men like Zechariah? What do you do with men like Elijah? What do you do with men like Isaiah? These are awesome men. You see we have such a petty idea of the Holy Ghost. We don't know God.

I'm going to speak either tomorrow night or Sunday morning, I don't know which on a message God gave me. You see I was taught as a little boy in England, and I got a lot of wisdom there. Man proposes, but God disposes.

Now last year I was ready to go to London to preach in the London arena, eleven thousand people a night. A friend of mine rented it for a hundred and sixty-eight thousand for four days. You can have three meetings a day.

And I anticipated going, because people were coming from Australia, New Zealand, India. All the evangelical preachers of Europe were going to be there. And then suddenly I didn't feel well enough to go, so I said well I'm not going.

But then I wanted to know why did God not let me go? Because I don't go to a meeting and preach, I'm not on hire, I'm not a taxi cab. So I come here this weekend, it took me three months to prepare. If you give me a hundred thousand dollars you won't pay me.

It took me six months to prepare to go for six days, and then the Lord said no, so that's okay. So I waited on God and he gave me this word, holy men of God's sake, as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

The other thing he gave me, which I'll share tomorrow night or Sunday morning, as it was in the days of Noah. Do you know this is the most critical crisis America or the world has ever been in? What does it say in the Bible?

In the last days there'll be, what's the scripture you say Martha, without, Martha remember in a minute. With no exit, without, oh perplexity, what's the scripture though? I've forgotten even where it is, one of those blanks came up right now, okay.

But it talks about the last days there'll be troubles in the world anyhow, without, with perplexities. In other words there's no way out, there's no way out. Why in God's name are we bowing the knees to Gorbachev?

He's the bloodiest man in the world. He supervised the rape of Afghanistan for ten years. He supervised the rape of Romania for the few years that they had power. He was behind a terrible massacre in Taninium Square last year in China.

He got his legs under the table in the White House for the first time in history. Right before him all the homosexuals had a meal there, that's never happened in history. Going downhill, how much quicker can we go?

There's only one answer to the situation in the world today. Not just America, but the world and that's a Holy Ghost revival. If we don't do that, we'll have the biggest bloodshed in history. And so I just want to give attention to what God wants us to hear tonight.

Holy men of God speak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Well, as I said, I didn't go to that meeting, but I was on a plane with Martha in January of this year going to the conference in New York and I, no, not a conference in New York, conference in California, and I just looked out of the plane.

I saw what looked like sheets and sheets or acres or miles and miles of snow and I nudged Martha, I said, darling, look at this snow. And then the captain said, look to the right window and you'll see the white sands of New Mexico.

And I thought, boy, they look beautiful. And just like that, this text came into my mind, moved by the Holy Ghost. And then the most stupendous thing, look at the gospel recorded by Luke for a minute, will you?

The Annunciation and a Life Transformed by the Holy Ghost

What would happen to you? Come on, friend, let me ask you a question. Supposing as you were getting ready this morning, packing your bag or putting gas in your car, an angel came and stood to the side of you and began to communicate.

Would you ask for its visa? Would you say, are you really an angel? We're not used to seeing angels. Well, here it says in the first chapter of the gospel recorded by St. Luke. Now look at verse 28. The angel came unto her and said, Hail, thou art highly favored, the Lord is with thee.

Isn't that something? An angel comes from heaven to tell a young woman, the Lord is with thee, but wait a minute. Look at verse 35. The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee. And the power of the highest love of charity, that holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God.

Come on. How many times have you read that? It doesn't mean that much to you. This young woman wakes up in the morning. She's an ornery woman. Her womb is empty. The Holy Ghost comes upon her. And at night time, her womb is filled with God.

What do you think she felt like? She goes to her boyfriend and says, Joseph, I've got something to tell you, darling. And he says, what? Is it very important? Because I've got something to do with it.

No, no, no, no, no. Nobody in history has ever had this. What do you mean? She says, have you ever read the ninth chapter? Have you heard the rabbi? The high priest in the temple reading the ninth chapter of Isaiah when he says, A virgin shall be with child.

He says, well darling, I've heard that a hundred times. She said, well I'm that one. No, she didn't say that. She wasn't allowed to say it. What do you think he thought? As your belly begins to swell, she gets bigger and bigger and bigger and says, well I want to ask you, but I didn't ask you.

She said, well I can't tell you anything. I can't tell you anything. And then she goes from him, and she has to tell the high priest. Can you imagine the gossip? Listen, do you think you can get the Holy Ghost to revolutionize your life and stay in the status quo?

If you say you're in a meeting tonight, and in the mercy of God he moves you, and you say tomorrow, last night God moved on me in that meeting, it changed my life. Listen, there's only one proof of that.

It changes your lifestyle. You can't store it in your mind because you get to know a bit more about the Holy Ghost than last meeting or that. God didn't ask you to be a walking library. He asked you to be a God-filled personality.

What do you think was in Jerusalem? Somebody says that. Hey, I want to tell you something. You won't believe this, you know all these soldiers that camped round, and there were at that time, hundreds of soldiers camped round Jerusalem.

And you know Mary, which Mary? There's a hundred Marys go to the temple. You know, Holy Mary, you know the one that always goes in the corner. She always prays with that woman a hundred years of age, Hannah.

Isn't that something? A woman went to church every day of her life for 80 years and never got tired. But Simeon went and prayed every day. All the old people go up in that corner, there's old Simeon with his long beard within his eyes.

I'm not going to die till I see the salvation of God. Do you know, in the last three years, people have come from seven different areas, nearly as many countries to my office, and without knowing it, each of them have told me, Oh, Simeon, you're not going to die till revival comes.

Well, that's great. I'm willing to hang around a couple more years, just as long as social security doesn't run out. No, I don't have a newsletter if I don't want it. It's okay. I'm trying to trust the Lord anyhow.

Well, what's the news? Well, you know, my brother-in-law is friendly with a high priest, and he says that Mary, you know little Mary, of course, all kinds of girls are getting pregnant with all these soldiers around about, but Mary, Mary says she's carrying a baby and Joseph isn't the father.

What? She's let Joseph down? No, no, no. She just says, no man did this. I've had no meeting with a man at all. Well, she adds blasphemy to it. She says God did this. You get filled with the Holy Ghost, you lose a lot of your friends, and then you have to say God did this.

That's not one way to get rid of your husband, by the way. But we don't think of that, do we? The Holy Ghost will come up. Do you think she knew that the Holy Ghost had come upon her? Do you think she got up next morning with her hands on her tummy and saying, the Christ of God is in me?

I'm the only woman in history that would ever have this privilege. That's wonderful. Maybe she didn't sleep for a night or two. But the gossip is round town. Oh, Mary, I saw today, you know, she smiles and she's so gracious and, you know, she acts as though she doesn't even know what's happening and she's pregnant.

A single girl like her. I've always told my daughter, I hope you'll be like Mary. Mary's been a role model. She's at every meeting that's spiritual. She never missed a feast, a Passover, a tabernacle, anything else.

And now she's in this mess. Boy, that gave her gossips, a lot of stuff to talk about. And she looks back and says, well, how many times I've been in the temple and I've heard them read the ninth chapter of Isaiah, a virgin shall be with, but I couldn't believe it.

Look at me. Supposing I say that there's another Jackie Pullinger here tonight. Do you think so? Is God in the same business? He found a 19-year-old girl with a university degree from a middle-class family that today might be married with a bunch of children and living in a mansion in England and she lives in the rottenest hell hole in the world.

She doesn't go out till 11 o 'clock at night. She goes down an alley and at the end of the alley, 20 feet is where she sleeps. She goes down 10 feet, stamps her feet, claps her hands so the rats won't get in the house when she opens the door.

She has to drag them back. Then she goes out and she finds women. Can you imagine there are women in Hong Kong at 60 years of age that have prostituted for 45 years? Do you know who hates Jackie the most in Hong Kong?

The professional missionaries. They want to soil her hands. She doesn't say everybody should be like me but thank God there's a model there. Even the... Well, I'll tell you what happened one night. A bunch of guys came into a meeting place.

They threw the chairs through the windows. They smashed the doors and tore the place up. They passed their dung off and picked it up and smeared it all over the walls and then went out. And she came in to see the place racked and ruined and all the chairs broken, all the sacrificial money spent and the places broken up and human excrement on the walls and it stunk like a skunk.

All she did was wash it off. The men that did it had a sudden relapse and they went back to one of the greatest bandits in the nation. They went to the den of the worst, rottenest, wicked men that murder and rape.

It's their lifestyle and they rob and do every damning thing they can do. And they went back and said to the chief, you know, we got in Jackie's place tonight and we feel bad now. We broke the place up.

We broke all the chairs. We broke all the tables. We smashed the windows. And the bandits said go back and apologize. They said, what? Go back and tell you're sorry. You don't understand. I mean, there isn't a chair to sit on.

There isn't a thing. We smashed everything that's smashable. We smashed. We can't go back to Jackie. She won't forgive us. Here's a man who can cut your throat without spitting. Rape your daughter in front of her eyes.

Steal your money. Blast everything you have. And when this other rascal says we can't go back to Jackie, he says, he says, she won't forgive us. And the bandits says, this dirty, filthy man whose hands are running with blood, says, go tell Jackie you're sorry.

But she won't forgive us. She has to. She's a Christian. Isn't that something that a bandit knows that and we don't know it? Dear God, we get offended because the pastor went twice to one house in the same street and missed us.

How easily we're offended are. Yes, yes, yes. It's very nice when she says that little thing inside of me is the redeemer of the world. He's prophet, priest, and king. He's the only one the Holy Ghost ever conceived in history and he's the only one that will be conceived that way.

Okay. That's very nice. But what would he do when he comes to this second chapter in Luke? Listen to this. Verse 34 says, Simeon blessed her and said, Mary his mother, behold, this child is set for the rising again of men in Israel and for a sign which shall be spoken against.

A sword shall pierce through thine own soul. Do you hear that? This woman who had heard of time and time again, she heard the high priest quoting the ninth chapter of Isaiah, but she'd also heard the high priest quote, Isaiah 53.

What does it say in Isaiah 53? None of you remember. Thank you. He was ruined for our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquity. She's bearing the man that's going to bear the sin of the world. She's going to see him on the cross naked.

She's going to see a man that walks up and down penniless like Precious Jackie does. You talk about prophets. Do you know Plato was a prophet? Do you know Plato prophesied? Long before Jesus born, Plato said, One day God will come to this world with bare feet.

He'll have no home. He'll be a homeless, penniless man and we won't know him and it came to pass. What do you think people said when they saw the belly on that little girl looked a dirty tramp messing around with the soldiers.

She talks about holiness and gets pregnant. She talks about fasting and there she is. She'll never bring that child. She's too small and everything. They said every damnable thing about her. What did she care?

Listen, if you get through with the holy ghost you won't care a snap of a thing about the opinion of people. Whether they like you or hate you. What difference does it make? In that big conference one day, 9000 people said let's sing a chorus.

Maybe some of you know it. Jesus loves me, this I know. Do you know they went into ecstasy about it. They hadn't sung that since 50 years ago. The greatest thing you'll ever learn this side of eternity is Jesus loves me.

The apostle Paul said he loved me and gave himself for me. I don't care if he died for the world. I don't care if he died for the church. He loved me. A bloody man going down the road my hands running with blood and he transformed him and made him the greatest man of his day.

Maybe the greatest man that ever lived after Jesus Christ. So Mary has a... Would you like God to give you an unveiling of your life from here to the end? Do you know what will happen in another 25 years in America?

People will be crucified in the streets for following the Lamb. If you won't join the Roman Catholic Church they'll burn you to death or something like they've always done. Like they're still doing in South America.

That battle is coming up. It's either be totally Christ or be committed to Christ. Or else get tied up with the harlot church. Mary was filled physically too. But what's the next thing the Holy Spirit does?

Fullness of the Holy Ghost and the Call to Sanctified Living

He comes on a bunch of men and they were gathered together where in the upper room and they were filled with the Holy Ghost as in Acts 2 -4. But you know why do we get stuck there? I made a quick note of this just yesterday.

Oh we're filled with the Holy Ghost Acts 2 -4 but it says in the 6th chapter do you remember what it says about Stephen? He was a man full of what? No before that. Full of faith. Lots of people are full of the Holy Ghost but not full of faith and of the Holy Ghost.

It says in Philippians 1 we're filled with the fruits of righteousness. Paul prays for the Colossians and he'd be filled with the knowledge of his will. How many of you are stumbling around you don't know which way to go.

You young people I don't know whether God wants you on the mission field wants me here, wants me there. Find out God's will and do it. Get on a boat and go to Hong Kong or King Kong as far as that goes.

As long as you know you're in the will of God all hell won't stand against you. And then it says in 2 Corinthians 7 -4 that they were filled with comfort. And then in Ephesians 3 and verse 19 you remember that fantastic verse?

Well I'll remind you of it. Ask somebody to preach on it will you? It's the most stupendous thing I know of this side of eternity. It says you, you, you you mortal beings you can be filled with all the fullness of God.

Can you fill what's already full without emptying it? No, yes you can. Look here, I put all the lights out in this room. Let's say a couple of hours ago maybe there wasn't anybody in it and people start coming in.

The room was empty you fill it with people. The room was full of air otherwise they couldn't breathe. Then we put on a switch we fill it with light. It's full of people it's full of air it's full of light.

We can turn up the switch and we can fill it with heat. It's full of people it's full of light it's full of warmth. And I take a spray and I can fill it with perfume. It's filled and filled and filled.

Well that Greek word there be filled with the Spirit is actually be being filled with the Spirit. It's not something that happens once it's continually there. Jesus says if you abide in me you will get your prayers answered simply because you use God as you go shopping.

Do you abide in him every day? Does he tell you to go to a certain place and meditate and he shows you your whole career crucified? You make up your mind to be a lawyer and God says you can't be a lawyer.

You make up your mind to get married and God says you can't do that. I went to a conference some years ago walked up to the front and there were about 800 college people there. And as I bowed in prayer somebody just grabbed my knee and I looked they're the most gorgeous girl I've ever seen I think gorgeous cheeks and bright eyes.

And she said do you remember me? I said sure I do I remember you. She said do you remember you preached on Isaiah 6 one night? Woe, lo, go. I said sure I remember that. She said well I went home and the Lord spoke to me and she said you said wait before God.

You told us of a vision of eternity a vision of God a vision of deity a vision of depravity a vision of duty. I said I went home and I prayed and God said now forget all about any courtship for the next three years pray and study and meditate.

I just said but Lord this boyfriend I love he's the most handsome man in all the university. He won't be single another month the girls will be after him. I said what happened? She said oh he's wonderful.

I said look he's coming and here comes a man of course modern young man nice moustache tall handsome like me and not like somebody else. And she said well Mr. Raymond I want to tell you something. When I went home that night I made a pledge to God alright I'll never talk to a boy again I'll never have a date with a young man until you release me to meet that fellow.

He went home and the Lord said to him forget all about that pretty girl for three years I'll take care of her. And she said we met just recently I haven't dated anybody in three years and each of us said God has kept us and so we're going to get married.

So there you are. Cancel your relationship with your boyfriend not with your husband just with your boyfriend. But oh well you know most of us are trying to get we want God's maximum blessing on minimum deposits and he doesn't do that.

God will remind you a whole spirit and soul and body. He says the spirit of God. Have you noticed Jesus never did anything till the spirit of the Lord was upon him. He knew he was the son of God when he was 12 years of age but he waited till he came up out of Jordan.

Then what happened. Oh I want to be filled with the Holy Ghost. You clap your hands you shout you have a wonderful time. Wait a minute. You told God you want to be like Jesus. What happened when Jesus was filled with the Holy Ghost.