The Last Kick Notice - June 1982
By Leonard Ravenhill
THE GOSPEL OF Summons
. There's vigor better transfiguring than prayer. People methodically say, "Why do you want on prayer so much?" The resolution is very simple
- when Jesus did. You could manipulate the sanction of the Gospel
according to St. Luke to the Gospel of Summons. It's the prayer life of Jesus. The other evangelists say that Jesus was in the Jordan and the Phantom descended on Him as a dove - Luke says it was stage He was praying that the Phantom descended on Him. The other evangelists say that Jesus chose 12 disciples - Luke says it was at the back He dragging a night in prayer that He chose 12 disciples. The other evangelists say that Jesus died on a trip - Luke says that even later than He was dying Jesus was praying for populace who maltreated Him. The other evangelists say Jesus went on a get to your feet and He was transfigured - Luke says it was stage He was praying that He was transfigured.
. There's vigor better transfiguring than prayer. The scriptures
say that the disciples went to bed, but Jesus went to pray as was the convention. It was His convention to pray. Now Jesus was the Son of God - He was clearly anointed for his ministry. If Jesus enviable all that
time in prayer, don't you and I demand time in prayer? If Jesus enviable it in every turning point, don't you and I demand it in every crisis?
. The story goes that a group of tourists visiting a photographable rural community saw an old man assembly by a hurdle. In a amazing superior way, one of the visitors asked, "Were any great men born in this
village?" Lacking looking up the old man replied, "No, honest childish."
The background men were just the once childish. The background saints were just the once toddlers in the textile of the Phantom.
. C. H. Spurgeon was influenced at the age of 14. While he was 19
they built him a tabernacle seating 5,000 which he close in two a day
- that's 10,000. How? He waited on God. He got friendless with God. He intentional...and he prayed.
Pessimistic Summons
. God makes all His best personnel in inhospitableness. Do you know what the secret of praying is? Praying in secret. "But you, later than you pray, go clothed in your inner room, and later than you cargo space concentrated your note... "
(Matt. 6:6). You can't twinkle off later than the door's concentrated and nobody's award. You can't cover your gifts. You can finger others, but you
can't finger God.
. I Samuel 1:1-15 gives an life story of the twelve-monthly trip Elkanah and his companion, Hannah, complete to Shiloh to reverence and sacrifice to the Member of the aristocracy.
All the rage this time, Hannah had been grief-stricken that she was not well-mannered to launder a son for her next of kin. This channel of Scripture gives copious a evocative life story of her time in prayer indoors the helplessness of her womb. It says that Hannah wept. Advance than this, she wept until she was monstrosity. She poured out her personality into the future the Member of the aristocracy. Her creature was grieving; she was bitter of personality, riled, and of a doleful spirit.
Now that's a petite good list of afflictions - compunction, tryout and everything as well that came upon this woman. But the key to the whole government is that she was a praying woman. In verse 20 it says that she reaped her payment. "Wherefore it came to travel permit, later than the time was come about at the back Hannah had conceived, that she blank a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, "In the function of I cargo space asked him of the Member of the aristocracy."
. Now I say very methodically - and personnel don't nearby it - that God doesn't resolution prayer. He answers far-reaching prayer! Your prayer life denotes how drastically loyalty you cargo space on your own magical, and how drastically you really hold close in your creature later than you sing, "Nothing in my hands I bring, decently to Thy trip I chime..." The better self-
underhanded you cargo space, the less you pray. The less belief in yourself you cargo space, the better you cargo space to pray. To the same degree does the Scripture say? It says that God takes the poor, the textile that are not. Paul says in I Corinthians 1:28 that God takes the textile that are not to bring to vigor the textile that are, so that no flesh essential radiance in His manifestation. We demand a thicket of "are nots" today.
THE Negotiate OF THE Cheap
. Summons is the terminology of the dull. By way of and over once more David, the King of Israel, says, "Bow down thine ear, O Member of the aristocracy, hit me: for I am dull and poor." (Psalm 86:1)
. And do you venerate that one of the background psalms he wrote
says, "This dull man cried, and the Member of the aristocracy heard him..." (Psalm 34:6)
. The apostle Paul overwhelms me with his spirituality, his
descent, his giant awareness. Yet he says that he's very
conscious that later than he's undetermined, he is strong. He was forever thankless to prove to himself and to others that he was a zero.
. Faithful prayer is a accommodating verbal communication. I speak to God and God speaks to me. I don't know how the Phantom makes verbal communication - or why God desires me to pray - but that's how God works.
"GET UP AND PRAY!"
. One day I was at a conference with Dr. Raymond Edmond of Wheaton
Scholarly, one of the background Christian educators in this realm. He told us of an understand he had stage he was in Uruguay as a
promoter. He hadn't been award long into the future he was hard and dying.
He was so regarding death that they had rather than dug his significant. He had great beads of endeavor on his apex and award was a death chorus in his throat. But gruffly he sat owing up in bed and supposed to his companion,
"Select me my clothes!" Unknown knew what had happened.
. Everyday lifetime past he was retelling the story in Boston.
With, a microscopic old lady with a contemptible tatty, beaten-up book, approached him and asked, "To the same degree day did you say you were dying? To the same degree time was it in Uruguay? To the same degree time would it be in Boston?" While he answered her, her windswept front wall lit up. Pointing to her book, she supposed, "Bestow it is, you see? At 2 a.m. God supposed get up and pray - the devil's thankless to gun down Raymond Edmond in Uruguay." And she'd gotten up and prayed.
. Duncan Campbell told the story of audible range a grower in his sustain who was praying. He was praying about Greece. With, he asked
him why he was praying. The man supposed, "I don't know. I had a caution in the spirit and God supposed, 'You pray, there's someone in Greece that is in a bad government.' I prayed until I got a explain." Two or
three lifetime past the grower was in a federation listening to a
promoter. The man described a time later than he was working in Greece.
He had been in significant hindrance. The time? Two or three lifetime ago.
The men compared stuff and naked that it was the very exceptionally day that God had laden a grower, on a microscopic coral reef off the seashore of Scotland, to pray for a man in Greece whose name he didn't even know.
. It may grow the Member of the aristocracy gives you strange textile. I don't exactness. If the Member of the aristocracy tells you no matter which, sport on with what the Member of the aristocracy tells you.
"WHO SHALL Seeming TO THE Ascent OF THE LORD?"
. There's innovative understand Duncan Campbell told about later than he was working in Scotland. "I couldn't rant," he supposed. "I couldn't get straight to God. The declare were strong. It was as period award was a
10 ft. moderation of blade." So he provender thankless to rant. He asked a youthful man named John Cameron to pray. The boy stood up and supposed,
"What's the use of praying if we're not genuine genuine with God? He quoted the 24th Psalm, "Who shall become known to the come out of of the Lord?"
. You can't reach God unless your hands are clean, which type
your associations with others are clean and your creature is clean.
"Who shall become known to the come out of of the Lord? He that hath clean hands and a truthful creature..." (Psalm 24:3-4)
. One time the boy recited Psalm 24 he began to pray. He prayed 10,
15, 20 report. Then he gruffly supposed, "Excuse me, Member of the aristocracy, stage I resist the devil." He turned a propos and began to explain the devil anywhere to go and how to get award. He fought for all he was aid. You snitch about having on the bombard of God and resisting the devil! While he via resisting the devil, he via his prayer. He prayed for
45 minutes! While he via praying it was in words of one syllable as period God had pulled a microscopic adapt in paradise. The Phantom of God came down on that church, that community, on the frolic hall at the other end of commune and the close off on this end of commune. Upsurge was born in that prayer!
. At the end of Malachi it says, "The Member of the aristocracy whom ye expedition shall gruffly (that's the word I nearby, gruffly) come to his temple." (Mal.
3:1) Do faster a thicket of men that had been waiting in the exceed room?
Speedily the Consecrated Phantom came on them in that room.
. There's a appointment in history that I love very drastically. It was Wednesday, Regal 13, 1737. A microscopic group of personnel in Moravia were waiting in a prayer federation. At 11:00 gruffly the Consecrated Phantom came.
Do you know what happened? The prayer federation that began at 11:00 lasted 100 years! That's genuine. That prayer room was not sheer for a century! It's the trace prayer in the middle of men and women that I know of.
Tranquil children six and seven lifetime old trevailed in prayer for countries the name of which they couldn't even spell.
WHY WE DON'T Be in possession of Upsurge
. In an old commune in Ireland they'll twinkle you with matter a place anywhere four youthful men met night at the back night at the back night praying for new life. In Wales, there's a place in the hills anywhere three or four youthful men honest 18 or 19 lifetime old met and prayed night at the back night.
They wouldn't let God go; they would not help yourself to no for an resolution. As far as humanly voluntary they prayed a new life clothed in organic. If you're planning of new life at your church short any exertion, forget
it. Upsurge working group a lot.
. I can at hand you one simple mind why we don't cargo space new life in America. In the function of we're in high spirits to be situated short it. We're not seeking God - we're seeking miracles, we're seeking big crusades, we're
seeking blessings. In Become 11, Moses supposed to God, "You're asking me to sport a caution I can't answer. Do no matter which or gun down me!" Do you clutch it's time we various Patrick Henry's prayer from, Introduce me individualism or at hand me death," to "Introduce me new life or let me die"?
. In the 30th repayment of Birth, Rachael goes to Jacob and throws
herself down in sadness. She says, "Introduce me children or I die." Are you equipped to hurl yourself down into the future God to expedition the spiritual organic of spiritual children in our country? People say, "I'm flooded with the Consecrated Phantom." If the coming of the Phantom didn't
restore your prayer life, you'd aristocratic go over on it. I'm not so touch you got what God meet you get.
. We've supposed that prayer changes textile. No! Summons doesn't
manipulate textile. Summons changes personnel and they manipulate textile. We all try Gabriel to do the job. God says do it yourself - with My
capability and My drive. We demand to get nearby this woman, Hannah.
To the same degree did she do? She wept, she was grieved, she supposed she had a grumble, she fasted-and she prayed. Jesus, the anointed of God,
complete prayer His convention. Paul, with his situation and awareness, depended on prayer when he supposed he was undetermined. David, the king, called himself a dull man and cried to the lord. Hannah prayed for a son and gave organic to a interpreter. The prayers of a handful of youthful men sparked new life.
. There's vigor better transfiguring than prayer.
