Revival Series 1 - Part 2 — Leonard Ravenhill

A Prostitute’s Descent into Addiction and Despair

Every day he had a woman sit outside of the bedroom, so nobody could say there was anything wrong going on. And he'd decide that demon and the demon and all the demons in hell laughed at him. He took toll of his body, he would sweat, he would almost bleed.

And the preacher said, why don't you give up? This girl's beyond hope. Do you think it doesn't happen? Listen, I spent two years in the subculture of New York with David Wilkerson editing his paper. I've seen some of the most beautiful girls in America.

They used to sing in the choir and they could recite scriptures when I saw them. They could sing hymns without a hymn book. They became prostitutes for a thousand dollars a weekend. I remember a girl we had there, demon possessed.

She'd been to one of the great schools, Smith of Athens. She had more culture and refinement and dignity than any girl I've seen, practically. She played around, acted with sex, acted with drugs. Demons got a hold of her.

And one day as we talked to her, David Wilkerson's pastor said to her, does your mother know you live this way? Well, where do you live? Well, I don't live at home anymore. My mother's old-fashioned.

You know, just wants to live at home with servants and cars and all the luxury. I've given that up. Where do you live? Anywhere. Who do you sleep with at night? Anybody. Black men, yellow men. You're a prostitute?

Sometimes. I'm also a lesbian. I've taken drugs. I've been to hell and back. Wish my mother could get liberated. A few weeks after we were having breakfast with a bunch of cutthroats and murderers and jailbirds and prostitutes and the vilest of the vile, one boy leaned over to breakfast, David, and said, oh, you know that kid in that film that Ravenow and David Wilkerson interviewed?

She went berserk in a coffeehouse the other night, somewhere down 111th Street. Boy, she thought even the cops couldn't control her. Finally, they tied her up with a belt. She's in the nut house. A few weeks after, the boys were talking again.

They said, you know that kid that went to the nut house? She's come out. We saw her downtown for the other night. She looks a bit weird. A few weeks after we were having breakfast, one of the boys said, you know that kid that went to the nut house and got out?

Boy, she was a charming girl. Oh, she could show her jewelry and she could pose. She had the most amazing eyes. She'd coach her. Oh, she could quote Latin and French and all the stuff. Boy, she was some doll.

Well, what about her? Pulled her body out of the... She got personality, culture, things she was going to do. I never found a prostitute that was going to be a prostitute anyhow. I could show you new girls in New York tonight that look like the Queen of Sheba.

They're dripping with diamonds and they charge more than anybody else. You don't have to approach them. They'll approach you. Sit in any hotel in New York. Go to the Americana on 8th Avenue. Go to some of the super hotels.

Some pretty girl come up the side of you, tell her a price, and before you know it, she'll follow you to bed if you don't chase her. But I'll tell you this. There's not one of those girls when she comes home at 3 or 4 o 'clock in the morning that doesn't cry herself to sleep and call herself the dirtiest doll in the country.

Let me tell you just this other thing. I went in the office one day. Here's a tall boy like a beanpole. He had a girl with springy, dirty hair. Her nose was eaten away with drugs. Her teeth were all taken.

Her eyes were hollow. Her temples were in. And I said, hi, can I help you? I don't want to help her. Help my wife. She's just on drugs. She's going to die. Is she a wife? No. No, we've lived together three years.

She's not my wife. But I gave her the first shot. And she's hooked. She can't get off it. We can't get the money. And he lulled her with his big, snaky-looking eyes, and they spanked the pad on her like an old cat.

What are you going to do? Pray? Pray? She needs something more than prayer. She needs help. She needs a doctor. You need to get her into an institution. She's going to die. We don't have any doctors. What can we do?

Well, there's one thing you can't live together here. She can go in the girls' room over there. You go upstairs to a boys' room, and we'll come and see you later. Two days after, that girl walked in a prayer meeting.

A picture of death. Wobbling, thunking jaw, girty, smelly, blurry eyes. She came out half an hour after as though she'd been to heaven and back. Her so-called husband was lulling her by the world. Hmm, half asleep.

She came out triumphant. His nickname was Bunny. She said, Bunny, Bunny, it's happened! What's happened? I'm a new creature. I just knelt down there and said, Jesus Christ, I'm rotten. I'm a sinner. I don't even know where you are.

I don't know how to pray. But, oh God, I'm in a mess. I'm going to hell as soon as I can go. Will you do something? And somebody said, believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins and ask him to come and cleanse your heart.

And she did just that. And as quick as that, he came. Bunny said to me, will it last? Will it last? Will she die? I said, no. She lived. Two days after, he went in the same prayer room. He came out just as transformed.

Conversion and Transformation Through Jesus Christ

I used to teach the staff there two mornings a week, Tuesday and Thursday. And he said, I'd like to come in every Tuesday and Thursday. I said, you get Mr. David Wilkinson's permission, you can come. He came.

That boy now, that boy who was a despair to the police, despair to everybody. That boy who was eaten with drugs and devilry and dope and vice. He had lived with women. They'd lived all their rottenest lives, barnyard models, yes sir.

Jesus Christ got hold of them and changed them. People said, you won't do much with them. They don't have any brains. I'll tell you what he did. That boy went to Bible school and at the end of the first year they asked him to leave because he was asking the professors questions they couldn't answer.

He took Greek as extracurricular work. And his wife said, you know, it's amazing. We used to be out till 2 or 3 in the morning on drugs and dope and sex parties. But now there he is at 2 o 'clock, 3 o 'clock in the morning studying the Bible, getting a concordance, finding some Greek wisdom.

And he divides, devours the Word of God. And you know what he's been doing for the last, what, 3 years now now, I guess. 4 years, 4 years. That man has been hidden away in a little prayer retreat with a bunch of people, salting himself in the Word of God.

He was a despicable man, he was a despicable devil, he was a despicable person. But there came a day in his life when he said, look, I'm not going to play at Christianity. If Jesus Christ is going to have anything, he's going to have everything.

If he'll take this life of mine and cleanse it and organize it and greet me again, have me. What power do we have over the power of the devil? The greatest battle in the world is going on right now. The greatest battle in history was Gethsemane.

And the second greatest battle is going on now in the heavenlies. And if America doesn't have revival, she'll rot in her own sins. And that goes for England too. I'll talk tomorrow night about revival and the price of revival.

It's an awesome price, but it can be paid and revival can be had. You think that there's no power in prayer? You think there are not men who almost single-handedly can put barrels up and Satan cannot pass?

Prayer, Spiritual Warfare, and the Power to Resist Satan

Let me quote one. When the great plague was sweeping over Scotland about 1550, a Presbyterian minister got up one morning. He was reading the Word of God, I give you power over all the power of the enemy.

Submit yourself to God. Resist the devil and he will, what he shall, what he could, what he might, he will. Please. He put on his clerical collar, his three-quarter coat. And in the grey light of that awful morning, and I've been in Scotland in summer at four, five o 'clock, when you're shiveries on a summer's day.

At five o 'clock he marched down the boundary line of the city and pushed and pushed and said, Satan, you shall not enter this city. Death, you shall not enter it. Plague, you shall not enter this city.

In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I resist you. He locked in the bedroom windows and looked and said, Oh, it's the clergyman, something must have gone wrong with him. He walked down the boundary line, he walked down the other boundary line.

He couldn't walk down that boundary line because it was the North Sea and he couldn't walk down this because it was the River Tay. He walked down that boundary line and defied the devil while people laughed at him.

The plague rolled on and rolled on and rolled on until it came to that boundary line. And everybody inside the boundary was saved and everybody outside of the boundary perished. You know why the devil keeps you so busy with trifles, little things?

Because he's afraid you might discover the riches in Jesus Christ, that you have a right by yourself or with another one to stand against the power of the enemy. But he doesn't run because you say boo and he doesn't run because you pray for five minutes.

It means getting together and declaring war on the powers of darkness. There's a lion in the way. Did that worry Samson? Did he organize a committee? Did he suggest they got some weapons stored? He went up in the strength of God and he tore the lion.

The devil is devouring this age at a speed he's never devoured any other. There are more heathen people in the world tonight than any people in history. And this generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of heathens.

I don't care if that heathen is a film star going into a Waldorf, or storing sex, shipping with diamonds. And the people I saw, they're in the heart of Papua. My boys just come out of Papua. I've been there.

They have wall-to-wall dirt in the homes. This is not funny. I got pictures of this. People say don't show it anymore. Here is a woman. They're naked anyhow. There's no sex appeal about them. And she has a baby on her breast and there are pigs all over the house.

And this little pig can't feed on its mother, so she rolls the baby on the floor and picks the pig up and feeds it. She's going to another home. There's a woman suckling a dog because her little puppy is sick or its mother died.

When you see films like that, you don't say, oh let's see them again, they're so funny. Is it appalling that a people 2 ,000 years after Jesus Christ came and they've never heard that blessed name? Is it appalling that God has given us this book, the greatest treasure in the world and our feet aren't wet underneath, never mind water to the ankles and knees and loins of water to swim in?

And the devil wants to keep us somehow occupied with lesser things because he knows that if he can move on, he's going to strangle our generation. I remind you tonight that two-thirds of the world right now is under the dominion of communism and the rest are going, they're going to trap us as well.

The answer isn't in politics. The answer isn't in finding out who's the guilty party in the Watergate. The answer is, is the Church of God and Jesus Christ going to revive? Is he going to put on the whole armour?

Is she going to ask for this endowment of power from on high? Let me say this in case I forget tomorrow, that it's perhaps if we were as spiritual as we think we are. You and I would have come to church tonight in sackcloth with a handful of ashes to put on our unworthy hands.

Maybe the choice is simple. Either we concentrate in prayer or we pray in concentration camps. Which way do you want it? We've had our seven years of cleansing. Most of you have a nicer home than the Queen of England.

You've air-conditioned everything. She has a big air-conditioned house. The wind blows through it everywhere. You can turn the heat on, you can turn the cold on. The children cry if you get Pepsi instead of getting the real Coke.

Poor darling. You don't have 28 varieties of ice cream and 28 varieties of donuts. Mother doesn't know what she's shopping for. I have an idea there are some bread lines coming up the road. But I won't talk about that.

I'll talk to her tomorrow night, whether that gives you a chance to stay at home. There was a line in the way. But he slew it. Go back just ten chapters briefly. Ten chapters in this book. It's a lovely book, Judges, isn't it?

Gideon’s Calling and the Loss of Supernatural Faith

Do you remember the other story there? We always tell the children these stories. The story of a little fellow, I think maybe 17 or 18 years of age. His name was Gideon. He was threshing corn. And while he was threshing it, an angel came.

And the angel said, God is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. You know, if the angel had said that to me in the same circumstance, if I'm into them, I would have said to the angel, so you tell jokes too, eh?

God is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. Just a minute, angel. You see that cave up there? That's where I live. You see the next cave? My uncle lives there. You know what? When he said that, Israel was in bondage to the Midianites.

And they never saw any supernatural manifestation. And you know, the greatest tragedy of our day is this. While your children may have seen rockets going up to the sky, and they know all about so much science, they know more science than the scientists knew a hundred years ago.

What they learn at school. But they've never been in a Holy Ghost revival. They've never seen God come and put a fence round a community and pray God's name. And men can't swear, and men can't drink, and men can't fish.

God is with thee, thou mighty... Wait a minute. God is with us. What am I up at night, at midnight, threshing corn for? I should do this at midday. But he didn't do it at midday. Why? Because we were in captivity to the Midianites.

God is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. Do you know the answer? He said, if God be with us, where be his miracles that our fathers told us of? That would be a pretty stiff... God's stick to measure most of our meetings with, wouldn't it?

Where be his miracles? My grandfather told me that he remembers walking through the greatest aquarium in the history of the world. They waved to the species as they went through, when they were delivered through the Red Sea.

He told me at night, when he was nervous, he lived in the edge of the desert. There was a fiery cloudy pillar, the pillar of God's holy presence. He told me he had a pair of shoes he wore for 40 years that never wore out.

He had a suit that he wore for 40 years, it never smelled. Every morning God opened the windows of heaven and sent the man, and he spit the rock and water followed him. Those people lived on miracle. They ate miracle.

They walked on miracle. They saw miracle, and yet they never entered the promised land. We've got thousands of people that will go thousands of miles to see miracles, but they don't want a life of holiness.

They want to see God operate, but they don't want God to operate on them, do some divine surgery, and circumcise their hearts, and take away their evil spirit, and take away their bad temper, and take away their carnality, that he might make them the dwelling place of his spirit.

Knowing God Rather Than Merely Knowing Scripture

The book of Daniel is the book of revelation of the Old Testament. Do you remember what God said when he gave Daniel the vision? He said, seal it up. It's not for today. When he gave John the vision in the New Testament, he said, don't seal it.

It shall shortly come to pass, and that was 2 ,000 years ago. So we must be very near to the coming. But, God said to Daniel, in the last days, are we living in the last days? I don't think so. We're living in the last minutes of this dispensation, not the last days.

But in Daniel it says, in the last days, when wicked men do wickedly, the people that do know their God, would you notice there, not the people that know their Bibles. You can get Bible notes this high.

You can know the Word of God without knowing the God of the Word. You may know the Word of God because you have that kind of mind. You like statistics, and dividing chapters, and penetrating words. You can be loaded with the Word of God, and yet hardly know the God of the Word.

Scripture says, in the last days, when wicked men do wickedly, not the people that do know their Bibles, but the people that do know their God, shall be strong and do exploit. Are these the last days?

Are wicked men doing wickedly? Let me tell you some history. In my day, there have been three outstandingly wicked men. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini. Forget Mussolini, forget Stalin, what about Hitler? He led from the coastline of Germany a thousand miles.

He put more kings off their thrones than anybody else. Do you remember when he stood there with more machines, and weapons, and airplanes, and tanks, and devilish things than anybody in history? And he raised his hand, and he said, the Third Reich will live a thousand years.

The Third Reich. The first Reich, you may or may not remember, was the Holy Roman Empire. When they built shrines to the Caesars, where if you wanted to save your life, you went to an image of Caesar, and you put three grains of incense there, and said, Caesar is God.

And Hitler longed for the day when men would worship him, and he said, the Third Reich, with his clenched fist, will last a thousand years. It didn't last a thousand weeks. But he led from the coastline of Germany a thousand miles.

He pushed kings off their thrones. He said, I'll make Germany the master nation of the world, or I'll pull the world to the edge of hell. And he did that. And the world has never recovered financially from that time.

I don't believe it ever will. When wicked men do wickedly. Oh, they've done it. He liquidated six million Jews. Read that marvelous book. It used to cost ten dollars. It's that thick. Fifteen hundred pages on the Third Reich.

One man! Not a man linked to God. A man that sold himself to the devil. He didn't go to bed at ten o 'clock. He didn't sit up and watch brainless Johnny Carson, either. He read Napoleon. He was determined to be a greater military strategist than Napoleon himself.

He went to bed at three and four o 'clock in the morning after being guided by a spiritist medium who made every move for him correctly until the last one. You can win battles and lose wars, and that's what he did.

That little man, he just had a Charlie Chaplin mustache on his lip and a stripe on his arm and everybody laughed and said, what will he do? He said, I'll conquer the world and they sneered at him. But he came within an ace of goodness.

And if a man dedicated to evil, if a man dominated with selfish desires can make America give his finest funds and rape Europe, if you fail to pay $30 income tax, they will send you to jail. Remember that world war from the last two wars.

Russia owes America $1 .5 billion. England owes America $11 .5 billion. France owes America $7 .5 billion. If you got that $20 million back, the dollar wouldn't be so sick. They'll hound you to jail if you don't pay your $30.

But we don't make nations do that, we don't. We're poor dupes, aren't we? They do what they want with us. They've got us on a string. We're puppets. Don't care whether you call them the Democrats or the Obocrats or anybody else.

They've just got us where they want us. We're not going to straighten this thing out economically, socially, financially. The only way we can restore the balance in America is a purging Holy Ghost Revival that will cleanse people from the politicians in the White House right down to the jailhouse and the brothel house and the ale house.

Samson, Spiritual Decline, and the Loss of the Anointing

All right, I'll tie it up. In the last days, when wicked men do wickedly, you don't remember too much of Mussolini. I could tell you a lot I want. Stalin, but Hitler. And God says, when you see the devil put his supermen out, keep watching.

I'm going to send my supermen and he's going to send them, as sure as that's my hand. I'm not sure he's going to Dallas Theological Seminary to get him or even the Pentecostal Seminary, but he's going to get his men.

He always has. He always will. They got Samson. He's a menace. He embarrassed them. He lifts the gates of the city. He destroyed their chosen men. He sets their stock of food on fire. He captures 600 foxes.

This man, you can't do again anything. The anointing is on him. And no weapon is formed against him from crossfire. And it was like that with the early church. All right, they got his secret. The woman said, you must be tired chasing foxes and lifting gates to the city.

Put your head on my lap. Have a sweet. And he did. That must be the most expensive haircut in the world, I think. The next thing he hears is the same sweet, no wicked lady saying, come on, wake up Samson.

The philistines be upon me. And he woke from his sleep and he wasn't any smaller than when he went to sleep. He forgot to put his hands up because they cut his hair off. He'd given their secret away. But he says, I'll go out as I did at other times.

And here is one of the saddest texts in the Bible. He wished not that the spirit of God had departed from him. He didn't know God had left him. A couple of simple things. In Cornell University a while ago, they did a very simple thing.

They had an ordinary gas stove like you have at home. They put a dishpan of cold water here and a dishpan of cold water here and they lit the jet and they got this water boiling and they put a frog in it and suddenly he, it was boiling.

As soon as he heard it, he swore and he kicked and out he got. He said, if I stay here, I'll cook to death. They lit the jet on the other dish of water at the very lowest point and they put a frog in it.

And two professors sat down and watched the frog for five minutes. Then they turned the jet up once and they sat down five minutes. They turned the jet up again and sat down five minutes. They turned the jet up again and sat down five minutes.

And he noticed it got hotter. He wriggled and wriggled but he adjusted and settled down. Then it got hotter but he wriggled and he settled down. He adjusted except for the last time. And he just did. He didn't adjust the last time.

When they dropped the frog in boiling water, he says, get out of here, I'll die. When they turned it up just progressively, killed him. When they turned it up just progressively, killed him. All right.

What killed your spiritual life? What killed your prayer life? What killed your Bible reading? Was it Johnny Carson? Was it your love for sports? What was it? Oh, Satan didn't get you drunk, he didn't commit adultery, he didn't steal money from the business that you're in, but little by little Satan turned the jet up and he got you exactly where he wanted you.

All right, here we are, friends. They got the man, they bind him, they blind him. They put him down in a basement, they put some bracelets of brass round his arm. They made him go round and round and round and round and round.

Grinding corn for the Philistines. Are you going to suggest if you got in that basement you wouldn't have heard that man crying? Don't you think he might have been saying rather angrily, God, why didn't I die after I slew that lion?

Why didn't I die after I lifted the gates of the city? Why didn't I die after I did my expo? I'm dying in misery in spiritual bankruptcy. While he's there, he turns his sight aside and says, who are you now?

I'm a boy. A cannibal boy. A Philistine boy. A Philistine boy. What are you doing down here? I have come to take you. God must have been like a dagger in his heart. There was a time when a thousand men couldn't take him and one boy is going to take him now by the fingers and take him away.

Where are you taking me? I'm taking you into the temple of David and the fish god. They're having a conference. Everybody's saying, you know God is dead. Doesn't that sound familiar? The God of the children of Israel, he used to deliver them.

Oh, he did miracles. But he's out of business. He died of old age. And we are the kings of the earth. Our religion is the religion of the dead. Where is the God of Israel? A man who could destroy a lion and destroy an army and lift the gates of a city.

Now he's taken by the fingers. And he says, stand steady, steady. Can you take me on the platform? Some steps up, but go cautiously. Now I'm blind. You know what it says? It says there were three thousand men in the gallery.

The gallery usually holds a third of the auditorium. So I'm going to guess there were ten thousand people there. And they bring Samson in and they laugh. Oh, that must have cut him to bits. They scorn.

They say, the God of Israel is dead. The God of a village town in Israel. The God of sensuality. The God of lust. The God of materialism. The other God has gone out of business. And those sightless eyes began to feel tears in that heart that had been crushed for so long.

Did something he hadn't done for a while. But I don't care who the man is. I don't care how brilliant he is. How famous. How well he preaches. No man under God's heaven is greater than his prayer life.

Desperate Prayer and the Promise of Revival

When Samson realized he was in this jam. Do you know what he did? He says, Oh Lord God, remember me, I pray thee. And strengthen me. I pray thee, strengthen me just once. Isn't it amazing that while he believed in the God of Israel he didn't say, give me my eyes back and I'll chase the enemy.

He didn't say, take me back and make me one of the leading kings of the earth like I was. He didn't say, give me liberty. I didn't pray for restoration. He was jealous of God. He says, God, would you please come.

Strengthen me once while I'm blind and out. I pray you in mercy, touch me. Do you know why I know he meant business? Because he says, strengthen me and touch me first. But he says, even if I die with the first time.

And when a man can look up into the face of a holy God whose breath is in his nostrils and he knows God can stop his heart beating like that and the next second he can be caught and he says, God, I mean business so much that I want this anointing.

I would rather live just a few hours with the anointing of God than live the rest of my life blind and helpless and useless. Strengthen me, I pray thee, just once. God doesn't answer prayer. God answers desperate prayer.

This man is more desperate than ever in his life. He says, God, give me this anointing. Even if I die. That anointing came. And he pushed out the pillars and the house came down. And the word of God says, he killed more in his dying than in his living.

Do you know what we're going to have before long? Dying than in his living. Do you know what we're going to have before long? The Holy Ghost revival. Do you know who the evangelists are going to be? Your sons and your daughters shall probably fly.

Your young men see visions. Your old men dream. And on my servants and handmaids, not on my preachers and theological seminary professors, but on my servants and handmaids. That's what Jesus did when he started.

He didn't go to Caiaphas and take him to the upper room. He went to fishermen. He went to typescarvers. He went to poor men. And he trained them for three years and filled them with the Holy Ghost and sent them to turn the world upside down.

And as it was in the beginning, even now it shall be and forever and forever. God's going to pour out his Spirit. God's going to let this wicked, materialistic, blunt and sex-devoted damned generation know he's God.

Whatever the silly signs may say of this, he's looking for somebody that's desperate to get cleansed and filled with the Holy Ghost. My last word. If you live the next 365 days like you've lived the last 365, will the devil have any worries about you?

Will he know you're around? Is your life on the altar for everything that God wants to take out of you? Does anybody say, you know, I don't understand the secret of that man in our church. He's different from other men.

He has more power when he prays. He has authority. He can command unseen spirits to come out. We were in a place just the other night. A lady sent for me in a hotel. Holiday Inn. Four millionaires. She's got everything but she was sick.

She called my dear wife. Martha said, would you pray for Mrs. So-and-so? I said, yes. I went in the hotel and prayed for her. She said, I'm nearer death than I've ever been. She's had serious trouble.

We went in and just simply laid hands on her and prayed. And came out. And we hit the road to come up here. She's gone back to the Bahamas but her daughter-in-law was speaking to her and she said, I tried to get Brother Ray and I tried to find him and I couldn't find him in Florida.

I wanted to tell him that when he prayed that night, I woke up a new creature in the morning. The pain had gone. The sickness had gone. I was completely delivered. It's rather amazing we have quiet. Well, that's all right.

And we have quiet and quiet leaders, that's fine. And we have education ministers. I wonder why we don't have a prayer minister. We've got bus ministers. I don't know how many more ministers we're going to get in the churches.

Minister of the church, minister of music, minister of education, minister of busing. I wonder this afternoon as I'm meditating, why don't we have a prayer minister? Is it because most of us have faith in prayer but not many can pray the prayer of faith?

A Call to Cleansing, Consecration, and Holy Spirit Empowerment

Look, you'll forget everybody outside of this building. Forget your wife, your sweetheart, your friend right here. You want to come to spiritual maturity. You want to die like Samson, spiritually bankrupt.

Or do you say tonight, Brother O 'Neill, more than anything on God's earth tonight, I want to be cleansed and filled with the Holy Spirit. And I'm prepared to challenge your Holy God in the presence of this congregation.

I'm prepared to pray Samson's prayer, spent on me, just once. If God will give me that anointing, I don't care whether I live six days or six years, but I want that anointing. Samson never lost it, he died with it.

He died in the greatest revival he'd ever had. And you know, we're going to have a Pentecost soon, but without Pentecost, Pentecost. God is looking for the men and the women. You know, if my program had gone around, we would either be in Australia or New Zealand tonight at some of the greatest conventions in the world.

And God said no. And I didn't know when your pastor asked me, why I said to my sweetheart, darling we're not going. I'd like to have gone to New Guinea to see our son and his wife and the children there.

I'd like to have gone to these big conventions, would be hundreds of minutes, and God said no. And then they say, come to Merit Island for one night, we stayed four. And then your good pastor said, well if you're coming that way, why not come in...

I don't carry secrets, I'm just telling you this is how God orders things. So I don't know where you are, but I know I'm riding God's will tonight in this church. I brought the message God wanted you to hear.

And I'm not responsible for a single soul after this moment. There you pray, some of you 16 year olds, you could be God's anointed for the next generation. I don't think there'll be a generation, I don't think, I think Jesus will come within the next ten years anyhow, maybe five.

But he's going to shake the world before he comes. He's not coming for a feeble, who is he coming for? He's coming for a bride, not a widow. He's not coming for a little lady shuffling to the grave with bunions and cataracts on her eyes.

He's coming for a young beautiful bride, robed in white, robed in holiness, strength, strong, victorious. Are you hungry and thirsting for him tonight? As he looks at your shabby prayer life, as he looks at your powerlessness, as he looks at your dry eyes, as he looks at your lack of love for souls and concern for a lost world and for his coming.

Closing Prayer for Revival and Spiritual Renewal

Father, we're glad that we look down from heaven at this moment. We remember heaven looks half to those who have sought thee, thou never saidst no. We have not an angel or an archangel, knows every heart bowed before thee at this moment, but you know every one of us.