[Faith-talk] Speaking God's Message: Where Are the Men of God? by Leonard Ravenhill

[Paul Smith]

Tucked away in my heart is a stirring conviction; I share it with you.  
When God-given, Heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks 
the damage that blasphemous modernism has taken years to build.  By the 
gale of the Spirit, the deceptive doctrines of divinity will see swept 
away "the house which they built upon the sand" of human 
interpretations of the Bible.

The head of humanity is sick and the heart faint.  Hell enlarges her 
mouth for the spoil which the filthy modernists have prepared as they 
have bartered the blood of Christ for "a mess of Pottage" (so-called 
"higher criticism.").  With swollen heads and shrunken hearts, they 
will look at their folly.

Arm of the Lord, awake! Put on strength! This is the hour for revival.  
This is the hour of doom.  Where are the men of God? Prophets may have 
miracles, but they must have a message.  In their own way, the 
bewildered worldlings are saying, "Is there any word from the Lord?"  
They know there is no intelligent word from any other source.

Because God cannot lie, therefore Joel 2 and Malachi 3 will be 
fulfilled:  "The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple 
(Malachi 3:1).  What comfort there! This moment, drought; the next, 
deliverance.  Ten minutes before John the Baptist arrived, no one knew 
that he was there.  As it was, so I am sure it will be.  God will get 
some man's ear and heart and will.  Men, hidden in secret at this very 
moment, will utter soon, in the Spirit's might, the burning truths that 
this people must hear.  Their words will burn as molten metal.  With 
long patience, God awaits.

Have we no modern Moses? Can we suffer this generation to perish in the 
slave camp of moral bondage--and sit idly by, doing nothing about it? 
Are we to be mesmerized spectators, while Lucifer, chained to his 
infernal chariot, sweeps many souls down the "broad way" to everlasting 
destruction? We need to rediscover the secret of those blessed men of 
whom the Word says (in Hebrews 11:31), they "subdued kingdoms, and 
stopped the mouths of lions"--(that lion who goes about today "seeking 
whom he may devour)".  For this day of doom our pale, pathetic, 
paralyzed Protestantism needs God-filled and God-guided men.  Wanted:  
prophets of God!

(Leonard Ravenhill (1907-1994) was an evangelist and author who 
challenged the modern church to radical discipleship and issued a 
no-compromise call to the principles of biblical revival.

Taken from "Why Revival Tarries," by Leonard Ravenhill.  Copyright 
1959.  Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, King James Version.

Well, what more can I add that has already been written? Can you just 
hear Brother Ravenhill lashing out against our Supreme Court voting in 
favor of same-sex marriage as being legal? I can just hear him now in my mind.

And that will do for today.  Until sometime tomorrow when, Lord willing 
another timely literary contribution will be posted, may the God of 
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob just keep us safe, individually and 
collectively, in these last days in which we live.  Your Christian 
friend and brother, Paul