My Past & Leonard Ravenhill

I wanted to interrupt the Leonard Ravenhill message because I have something else on my heart. I began thinking about what ministries or ministers have had the most influence on my life. I can say without hesitation it was Leonard Ravenhill and A.W. Tozer. Their writings impacted me deeply.

Weeping Between the Porch and the Altar (Leonard Ravenhill) (pt 7 of 12)

Weeping Between the Porch and The Altar
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)

My phone rings constantly, “I’m going to move here, I’m going to move there. Do you know a church that really is on fire for God? A church where they have all night prayer meetings?” No church should function these days without a whole night prayer meeting. What do you want . . . social standing? Do you just want numbers of people? Do you want to fill the pews? Or do you want fire?

Weeping Between the Porch and the Altar (Leonard Ravenhill) (pt 6 of 12)

Weeping Between the Porch and The Altar
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)

I went to a little Bible school in England, there were only thirty five students, but I’m glad that the man who was the principal was a man of prayer – Samuel Chadwick who wrote the book “The Path of Prayer.” The weakest meeting in almost any church without exception is the prayer meeting. When we are not strong in prayer we are saying to God, “We can manage.” (Of course, we shall pray if we have an invasion, we shall pray if we have a famine – we have a great “utility” God).

Weeping Between the Porch and the Altar (Leonard Ravenhill) (pt 5 of 9)

Weeping Between the Porch and The Altar
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)

Paul Koffman went to Nagaland, India, to see what happened and expected something like Finney. When he got there he saw all kinds of signs and wonders and miracles: cripples were healed, blind people were able to see, every distorted, perverted thing was put right.

Weeping Between the Porch and the Altar (Leonard Ravenhill) (pt 3 of 11)

Weeping Between the Porch and The Altar (pt 3)
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)

We feel a little nervous these days of talking about human depravity. Well, heaven knows, there has never been as much depravity around as we have today. Look at the iniquity that was on the earth when the prophet Elijah came on the scene. The nation was in bondage to idolatry, and impurity, and infidelity, and indifference.

Weeping Between the Porch and the Altar (Leonard Ravenhill) (pt 2 of 11)

Weeping between the porch and the altar
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)

We have to make up our minds if this message is absolute or obsolete. It’s either got the answer for our generation or forget it. We have to make up our minds that preaching is not a profession, it is a passion.

Weeping Between the Porch and the Altar (Leonard Ravenhill) (pt 1 of 11)

Weeping between the porch and the altar
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)

I’m not really going to preach a sermon this morning, but I want to have a launching pad… Joel 1:13 “Gird yourselves, and lament ye priests, howl ye ministers of the altar. Come, lay all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meat offering and the drink offering is witholden from the house of your God. Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly.”