Gems From Leonard Ravenhill (and others)

Gems From Leonard Ravenhill (and others)

Even so, to our knees, O Christians! Desist the folly of sprinkling today's individual and international iniquity with theological rose water! Turn loose against this putrefaction those mighty rivers of weeping, of prayer, and of unctionized preaching until all be cleansed.

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The prayer room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the fold for whom we pray! For prayer is a great detergent.

People are making salvation a mental decision instead of a heart decision. This is a shame.

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

Prayerlessness is disobedience,for God's command is that men ought always to pray and not faint. To be prayerless is to fail God for He says, "Ask of Me.."

The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Fire delivers us from coldness in prayer.

The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life end our deadness in prayer.

The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in our weakness as we pray.

The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helps our infirmity in prayer.

The man who has gotten God's Word in the prayer closet neither seeks nor expects encouragement from men for the delivery of that Word. The Spirit Himself bears witness of the approval.

The only power that God will yield to is that of prayer.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

There are two kinds of people: those dead to sin and those dead in sin.

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

Why do we want God to come for? Is it to increase our numbers, to keep our kids from the devil, or are we jealous for God's glory? For that is what revival is - an invasion of God by the Spirit.

Why did Jesus come? He came that they may know You the one true God. Most Christians today don't know God.

True peace is when the soul revolves around its center, Almighty God, craving for nothing but what God continually supplies. Since the soul is large enough to contain the infinite God, nothingless than Himself can satisfy or fill it. (Edward B. Pusey)

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these. (Horace Bushneil)

You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more difficult than these, that you need to be anxious about His management of it? (Hannah Whitall Smith)

As in our daily walk we come nearer towards heaven, He will open to us more of heaven. (Edward B. Pusey)

I have no home, until I am in the realized presence of God. This holy presence is my inward home, until I experience it, I am a homeless wanderer; a straying sheep in waste howling wilderness. (Anonymous)

Keep A Fixed Eye Upon A Bleeding Christ

Has Jesus Christ suffered such great and grievous things for you? Oh then, in all your fears, doubts, and conflicts with enemies, within or without - fly to the sufferings of Christ as your city of refuge!

In every temptation let us look up to a crucified Christ, who is fitted and qualified to support tempted souls. Oh my soul, whenever you are assaulted, for the wounds of Christ be your city of refuge when you may fly and live!

Do your sins terrify you? Oh then, look up to a crucified Saviour, who bore your sins in His own body on the Cross!

Ah, Christians,k under all your temptations, afflictions, fears, doubts, conflicts, and trials - be persuaded to keep a fixed eye upon a crucified Jesus! And remember that all He did - He did for you; and that all He suffered - He suffered for you! This will be a strong cordial to keep you from fainting under all your distresses. Oh, that Christians would labor under all their soul troubles, to keep a fixed eye upon a bleeding Christ; for there is nothing which will ease them, quiet them, settle them, and satisfy them like this!

Many, if not most, Christians are more apt to eye their sins, their sorrows, their prayers, their tears, their resolves, their complaints - than they are to eye a suffering Christ. And from there springs their greatest woes, wounds, miseries, and dejection of spirit. Oh, that a crucified Christ might be forever in your eye - and always upon your hearts! 

~Thomas Brooks~