Leonard Ravenhill Interview (FULL)

This is the full interview with Leonard Ravenhill. He was a great man of prayer and even more importantly, a man who knew God. He devoted his whole life to being intimate with God and trying to bring others to the same. He prayed for Revival, looked for Revival and longed for Revival. He was a prophet to the Church of his time.

Leonard Ravenhill

By David Bercot

Leonard Ravenhill was one of Britains foremost outdoor evangelists of the 20th century. God used him to help bring thousands of people to Christ throughout Britain. Unlike the case with many of todays evangelists, the conversions that Leonard helped to bring about were generally lasting conversions. Thats because he did not water down the Gospel when he preached it. Later in life, Leonard and his family moved to the United States, where he worked with Bethany House Publishers. In the 1980s, Leonard and his family moved to a home near Lindale, Texas, a short distance from Last Days Ministries. Leonard regularly taught classes at Last Days Ministries, and he was a mentor to the late Keith Green.

A. W. Tozer, who was a friend of Leonard, said this about Leonard: To such men as this the church owes a debt too heavy to pay. The curious thing is that she seldom tries to pay him while he lives. Rather, the next generation builds his sepulcher and writes his biography—as if instinctively and awkwardly to discharge an obligation the previous generation to a large extent ignored.

Those who know Leonard Ravenhill will recognize in him the religious specialist, the man sent from God not to carry on the conventional work of the church, but to beard the priests of Baal on their own mountain-top, to shame the careless priest at the altar, to face the false prophet and to warn the people who are being led astray by him.

Such a man as this is not an easy companion. He is not the professional evangelist who leaves the wrought-up meeting as soon as it is over to hurry to the most expensive restaurant to feast and crack jokes with his retainers. Such evangelists will find this man something of an embarrassment, for he cannot turn off the burden of the Holy Ghost as one would turn off a faucet. He insists upon being a Christian all the time, everywhere. And again, that marks him out as different.

I first met Leonard in 1989, when he was eighty-two years old and in frail health. At first glance, I would not have thought that God could still use this fragile, white-haired man. He walked slowly and unsteadily, and he sometimes needed help to get up and down from his chair. Yet, as soon as he opened his mouth, I immediately realized that my initial impression was wrong. At eighty-two, Leonard still spoke with fire and conviction, and it felt like his eyes were piercing right through to my soul.

During the last few years of his life, Leonard moderated a prayer meeting held once a week (later once a month), which was attended primarily by pastors and evangelists. Some of these men made a four-hour round trip to attend those prayer meetings. I attended those prayer meetings from 1989 until they ended in the summer of 1994, a few months before Leonards death. During the years that I attended those prayer meetings, I never once left without being deeply challenged by what Leonard had said.

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[064391258]

subtitulos in spanish please :(

tnanks!!!

[skellys3]

@064391258 Sorry, but I don't know Spanish well enough...

[chettfitchett]

Where does Ravenhill talk about how you cannot become a Christian in just the few moments of an alter call?

[skellys3]

Sorry, but I have no idea...the SermonIndex channel has this interview broken up into topical clips. Maybe search for it over there. God Bless...

[drdennison]

This is the missing classic fire for God and truth that brings sobriety and balance in today's Christianity. We need his link with the past revivals and great movements of God that shaped lives and nations through faith in God. I'm grateful to have been grounded in faith on Ravenhill's books as a young believer; may the Lord help me finish well.

[SalesLeadSecrets]

I do not have words adequate enough to thank you for posting tis video. I have been saved since 1976 and was converted in a fellowship that stood for these kind of truths. God help us and send a revival of truth to a church world that has forgotten repentance and follows fads and not Jesus

[sbalchan]

This man challenges me on so many levels regarding what i thought i know as a Christian... Heb 4:12 "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." God bless His servants who He uses to convict us of how we walk with Christ and what we do for His Kingdom...

[73geneva]

@denisechall1 May the lord bless you bountifully.

[skellys3]

@avissony Ok, I don't think I would disagree with you. I'm not sure how you know that I was misunderstanding her though. Did you talk to her about her comment or something?

[avissony]

@skellys3 Yes, you are misunderstanding her. The reason why we see such evil in the world, and don't see the miracles that Ravenhill speaks of is because the Holy Ghost has left the majority of churches, especially in the West. If you were to go to Asia, and see what God's doing over there, you'd see a greater availability unto God.

[9015180431]

Thank you Jesus for Leonard Ravenhill.

[denisechall1]

@73geneva Amen Brother...you are blessed to of listened to brother leonard, I pray for a man like him...did you mean david Wilkerson? another great man of God..I fill with tears when I think of the 2 of them and what they did for the Lord..I reacently bought Leaonards Autobiography by Mack Thomlinson, I could not read it at the start because I could not see for tears, Its very powerful...I know the Lord is coming back soon and I am looking Up..

God Bless you.

[vanmoody]

I believe a person can become a Christian in a moment, if they understand their sin separates them from a Holy God, that Christ Jesus, the God Man died on the Cross to pay the penalty for their sin, and they understand that they must receive HIM as their Savior. To get to Heaven is to relinquish all control of your eternal destiny and place it in the hands of Jesus. This can happen in very quickly. Some people sit in church for 30 yrs and are never saved because they wouldn't receive Christ.

[vanmoody]

@candiceevans1 In my view the Holy Spirit is in all believers. Romans 8 says if we don't have the Spirit then we are none of his. Instead of wanting more of the Spirit, I think it's important for believers to realize that the Holy Spirit wants more of US. The reason why we don't live in the joy of the Lord and in His power is because we get in the way. Everything we need according to 2 Peter 1:3 has been given us for life and godliness. It's because we have the Spirit. Bless you.

[73geneva]

@denisechall1 You could be the man, brother. Of a truth the church today is a far cry from what Christ expects. We have failed and the only reason we are still standing today is because Christ Himself said the gates of hell shall not prevail, but for that only God knows. But it all comes with paying the price. Ravenhill did and also did David. I remember listening to Ravenhill preach on Samson; no other message has stirred me more. We need extraordinary men of God in these dangerous times.

[denisechall1]

I watch Brother Leonard almost every day... I thank the Lord for a man like Leonard, I prayed and said to God..I wish I could of seen leonard and the Lord gave me a dream with Leonard, It was amazing and I thank God for what he has done in my life...Brother David as recently gone to be with the Lord and we have no Great men who dont compromise the Gospel Like Leonard, I am so dissapointed by the preaching today...they have no passion or zeal, I Pray the Lord will send a man soon....