LEONARD RAVENHILL, an anointed servant of God, ministered around the world, and wrote many articles and books that continue to bless people for generations. Bev Cooley presents an article published in 1962 in Message of the Cross, a monthly journal of Bethany Fellowship, not in circulation now.
Leonard Ravenhill was born in 1907 in the city of Leeds, in Yorkshire, England. After his conversion to Christ, he was trained for the ministry at Cliff College. It soon became evident that evangelism was his forte. And he engaged in it with both vigor and power. Eventually he became one of England's foremost outdoor evangelists. His meetings in the war years drew traffic-jamming crowds in Britain, and great numbers of his converts not only followed the Savior into the Kingdom, but into the Christian ministry and the world's mission fields. Leonard and his wife lived near Lindale, Texas, from which place Ravenhill traveled to widely scattered preaching points in conference ministry. Leonard went to be with the Lord in 1994.
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WHAT IS PRAYER?
Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer is the oldest known language in the world, the language of the Spirit. At times it finds expression in articulation, but it may not always be so.
Prayer has its own syntax. Its punctuation is not after the manner of Webster or the manner of the lexicographers, for it is punctuated by sobs and may have groans for its periods. Its tense is always present continuous, for it brings the past into the present and the future into the now. It has no dictionary. It offers no scholarships. It confers no graduation with gilded degrees. Its vehicle may be eloquence, or its channel may be dumbness.
Prayer is the believer's gymnasium, where he renews his strength.
Prayer is the believer's bank, where he draws wealth from above.
Prayer is the believer's observatory, where he gets glimpses into "the powers of the world to come."
Prayer is the believer's academy, where the Spirit operates discipline to the aspiring soul.
To move the world, the Greek mathematician Archimedes groaned for the elusive fulcrum and the lost lever. But the omnipotence of God is the only true lever by which the impossible is done, and the church on its knees is the only real fulcrum. When God and man operate in prayer, the unbelievable becomes actual; the dead come to life.
The devil, who kept Adam from the tree of life, keeps the average believer from the tree of prayer, which is the tree of life and of power.
The average believer today dislocates his whole schedule for issues so small that he cannot pray about them, but he neglects prayer concerning issues that all the cunning of man and all the skill of his learning cannot solve. He spends much time in the making of spiritual meals in the blessed Word of God, then quickly sprinkles them with a benediction-just as he would put salt and pepper on some choice dish at his table.
Prayer can travel faster than jets.
Prayer can pierce the Iron Curtain. (Yes, it did!! - Bev Cooley)
When prayer soars in jubilant faith, laughter may accompany it; however, sometimes tears may be its lubricant. Its interest on prayer is continually compounded, and yields dividends for time and for eternity.
Prayer's secret is praying in secret.
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