Leonard Ravenhill - Why Revival Tarries (1959)

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Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.

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It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.

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The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

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Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.

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The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

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Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

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There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!

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The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.

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Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

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If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?

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At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!

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The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.

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Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

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The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.

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No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.

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There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

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A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

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When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.

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Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.

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Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?

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The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

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No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

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One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

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The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

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By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.

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Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.

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To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.

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

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But have we Holy Ghost power-power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?

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

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