And God said to him, I'll not only
anoint you, you'll heal the sick, but here's
the secret.
21 days and nights he waited on God
for the anointing.
And he came back like an Elijah or
like an Apostle Paul.
But you know what he did?
Every year after that, on the day that
he entered that cave, he went back and
spent 21 days and nights with God to
restore his power.
He didn't say, I got the baptism 10
years ago.
He went and waited on God.
He forgot about big crusades.
He forgot about miracles he'd seen.
Anyhow, Roger Volk said, he came back.
I said to him, where have you been?
He said, I've been talking to my father
in this cathedral.
Well, where's that?
Well, the forest up the road.
I've been there three days.
Let's pray for your daughter.
So here's the daughter, again can't lick her
lips.
There she is, a third of her brain
removed.
No hope for anything.
The doctor said, resign yourself.
She's a vegetable for life.
There's no power on earth can do that.
Medical science doesn't have an answer.
Little Juma goes, little black guy, and he
stands over and puts his hands down and
said, Darling, Jesus loves you.
You're his property.
Be made whole.
And immediately she stood and licked her lips
and laughed.
And he said, I said, well, that's wonderful.
He said, but God did a greater miracle
than that.
I said, what do you mean?
She's no brain.
A third of her brain taken away and
God heals her.
She stands up and laughs.
He said, but brother, I left South Africa
a month ago and a month before that,
that vegetable of a girl that was dead
and paralyzed and useless gave birth to a
baby.
That's not it.
That's the Christ of the New Testament.
It's not the Christ of Pentecost.
They're as paralyzed as anybody.
You're going to Pentecostal church.
There's nothing supernatural.
They clap and shout and that's all.
Do you see people wheeling people by the
dozen to the front because of the sick?
Let me tell you a thing quickly.
When I used to do street meetings, I'd
get opposition.
Who ordained you?
And I'd tell them, I don't agree with
ordination.
One day I went to rent a building
belonging to the cathedral in Sheffield.
And there's a gorgeous guy with his perichil
collar, nice guy.
And he said, what do you want?
I said, I want to rent one of
your parish halls.
For what?
To have meetings.
I said, we've just had the big tent.
Oh, I don't want anything to do with
that tent you had in town.
I said, well, I'm with the team there.
And he said, well, Mr. Ravenhill, are you
ordained?
I said, yes.
Who ordained you?
He said, of course, the Church of England
will not recognize your ordination.
I said, sir, the Roman Catholic Church doesn't
recognize yours.
So he looked for a minute and I
thought, where do I go from here?
So he says, okay.
I said, sir, here's a problem.
You claim direct descent.
You're in the apostolic, oh yes, yes, I'm
in the apostolic succession, all right.
The Archbishop of somebody laid his hands on
me, I have a certificate.
I said, listen, the Roman Catholics say they're
in direct line with apostolic succession.
You say, I said, sir, there's only one
person has the right to say he's in
apostolic succession.
What's that?
I said, apostolic success.
I'm sick to death of seeing churches with
a label on that are paralyzed.
Let me tell you a thing quickly.
A thing that changed my life, made me
love America.
When I was 17 years of age, I
read in the Bridge Life of David Brainerd.
He didn't do signs and wonders and miracles
in one sense.
But I did learn to pray partly in
one sense.
I used to go out at night and
tie my mother's doggy to a tree in
the forest and pray with my hands up.
That was illegal in the church I went
to.
And I'd pray and call on God.
I remember one night standing on the edge
of the city.
There was a big rock and I stood
there and raised my hand and said, oh
God, please.
Lord, as you weep over Jerusalem, give me
tears.
And I went to my city and said,
God, please.
Don't let me die without seeing the real
Holy Ghost revival.
It will make people happy.
Revival sends people to the ends of the
earth.
The Welsh revival sent people on fire for
God to India.
They went from India to China.
They went from China to Korea and had
Holy Ghost revival.
Two years after I started praying, I didn't
know there was a little man in town
about this width.
A little Pentecostal guy.
He'd had two breakdowns, physically, not mentally, because
he fasted too much.
He spent days in fasting prayer.
George Jeffries came to town.
The whole town was shaking in less than
three weeks.
People going in wheelchairs and walking home, taking
their wheelchairs home.
Because the power of God was there.
Yes, sirree.
I esteem these men highly.
But they're very careful.
As our sister said this morning, if you're
going to trust God, if you're going to
die to self, die to your business career,
die to all else you have, it'll be
the most expensive thing you've ever had.
But is it worth it?
Ten thousand times over it is.
I stood outside of St. Peter's, that wonderful
church in Aberdeen.
I looked at that big sign outside.
It's in a rock, maybe eight feet by
eight.
And I read the story of the pastor
there by the name of Robert Murray McShane.
He prayed revival there until his health was
broken.
He had to go for a two-week
vacation into Israel.
And while he was there, W.C. Burns
came.
Paul may plant a pollis water if God
gives increase.
Burns came in the power of the Holy
Ghost.
He preached.
The whole city shook.
St. Peter's was packed to the rafters with
people.
Men with hearts of stone, the Holy Ghost
pounded them until they crumbled at the feet
of Jesus Christ.
Learned that people from the universe became enthroned
as something more than intellectual riches.
And they mourned and sought God.
The whole city moved.
So what do you do?
You sign him up for a crusade in
London, a crusade in Birmingham.
No surrey.
Out of that holy fire, God took William
Burns and dropped him in China.
In a remote part of China where nobody
had ever seen a man without a pig
tail or seen a white man.
And what he did, he carried on in
prayer for years.
What happened?
After he poured out his life in prayer,
Jonathan Goforth, an American missionary, went and had
revival in that area.
After that, another man came along by the
name of Watchman Lee had revival.
I believe that John Sung was in that
whole area.
You see, we'd take a man and say
this man's wonderful gift, but that man knew
the guidance of the Holy Ghost.
And so when I read a story like
that, Paul, I'm about that size.
When I read the story of men like
Duma, get the book.
It's sold in the bookstore now.
You couldn't get it in America until recently.
It's about $14.
Get thy glory, Lord.
It's a super story that will stir your
faith and surely break your heart.
Let's come down.
I've got two things.
I'm making a guess at this.
I think I'm right in saying John Wimber.
Well, you know John Wimber.
You've seen him.
He's a big, nice-looking guy.
Do you know John Wimber?
Well, I don't want to put this.
I've got two of his, a few of
his spies here.
So let me put it this way.
John Wimber worked for the Righteous Brothers when
he was unrighteous.
Isn't that right?
He wrote music for the Righteous Brothers and
all the rest of it.
What happened?
If he'd stayed on that course, he might
have been a multimillionaire now, but no, it
all abandoned.
What happened?
God helped him to found a vineyard.
There's vineyards all over the world now as
a result of one man's obedience.
He could have been sitting at home or
riding his yacht and having a good time,
but instead of that, God took his life
and distributed it around the world.
You see, do you think when the little
boy went with his five loaves and two
fishes, he ever dreamed he'd get in the
history book of the world and millions of
us would read and read and read about
little guy, about five loaves and two fishes,
and somebody took it and blessed it and
fed the multitude?
He never dreamed of that.
There's a precious little lady in America.
She was blind when she was six weeks
old.
She's still blind when she's 86.
She wrote some of the greatest hymns ever
written.
Connie Crosby wrote the hymn we sang this
morning, Blessed Assurance, or To God Be the
Glory, she wrote, and she wrote Blessed Assurance.
Somebody said to her one day, You know,
dearie, it's a shame that you are blind.
You can't see the sunset, you can't see
the flowers, and it's a shame.
I mean, why does God let you be
punished like that?
I mean, you've missed so much blessing.
And she said, What do you mean I've
missed?
Well, you can't see the sunset, you can't
see the flowers.
She said, No, I can't.
But you've blessed the whole world with what
you've written.
I feel so sorry for it.
Don't waste your compassion, I don't want it,
she said.
The lady said, Pardon me, what do you
mean?
She said, You're telling me I can't see
the sunset, I can't see the flowers?
And she said, Darling, she said to the
woman that's so dumb, She said, Darling, don't
you realize the first face I ever see
will be his face?
Doesn't it say in Revelation 21, that they
shall see his face?
Read the same book, it says, When the
sinners saw it, they fled from the face
of the Son of God, because he's angry,
he's going to pass out judgment.
They've ignored his word, they've ignored his commandments,
they've lived for the flesh.
Come on, Christian, what are you living for?
Now look here, here's the very final thing.
Preacher, God gave you a ministry to do
one thing, to prepare people to be part
of the bride.
Now come on preacher, could you, five minutes
from now, take your church as it were,
and say, Lord Jesus, here is my church,
it's part of your body, my church is
pure, we don't love the world, we don't
do worldly things, we don't talk worldly ways,
we don't watch worldly TV, we've no worldly
habits.
I've a hundred people, or two hundred, or
five hundred people in my church, and I've
been preparing them for ten years, to be
part of the bride of Christ, not to
just speak in tongues and do miracles, but
to be part, he's coming for a bride,
but listen friend, he's not coming for a
widow, he's not coming for a broken down
woman.
Jesus says the bride he comes for, no,
Jesus says in the book of Revelation, the
church of today, the Laodicean church, is poor,
wretched, naked man.
Your church has no vision, because you've no
vision.
The church has no passion, because you have
no passion.
The church has no vision, because you have
no vision.
Well then, if we don't have it, how
can we transpose and give it to others?
Come on preacher, would you like this very
day, without ringing up everybody that's a member,
and every deacon say, Jesus Christ is coming
at five o'clock tonight, I'm going to
introduce you and say, this is my senior
deacon, this is my best Sunday school teacher.
Would you shrink at that?
Do you know my ambition is to live
every day, so that if I die at
a moment's notice, I won't embarrass God.
I'm so living in obedience and subjection to
Him, that I can walk into His holy
presence, and I won't blush, and He won't
blush to all me.
Will He hold my worthless name before His
Father's face, not unless I'm walking in purity.
What's the final word from the Bible?
The final word from the Bible is this,
without holiness no man shall see the Lord.
You can see without ministry, you can see
without miracles, you cannot see without purity, and
only He can make you pure.
I'm going to do a thing I've never
done in my life before, I'm going to
ask you pastors who say, Brother Raymond I'm
embarrassed, I haven't led my people in purity,
I've had other ambitions, I'm embarrassed, but I
want to come and repent before God.
I repent I haven't led my people, I
haven't been a role model in prayer, I
haven't been a role model in humility, I
haven't been a role model in sacrifice.
I would like Jesus to come today, but
I'll come and repent publicly, and say here
Lord, I come with my hands up, I've
nothing in my hands, I bring out mercy
on me, cleanse me from all my defilement,
and fill me with the Holy Ghost, for
the rest, the stretch of my life.
I'm asking preachers, come and humble yourself, part
of the business, break yourself before God, raise
your hands and say, Lord, here I am,
I've failed, I come as a failure, I
come in my uncleanness, I come in my
bondage, Lord have mercy on me, have mercy
on me, have mercy on me.
That's why God brought you to this conference,
that you can be purified, and go lead
your church into purity, lead your church into
holiness, lead your church into the anointing of
God.
Tell him I don't care how you break
me, I don't care what you take from
me, just this morning, please, give me one
more chance, I've failed you so often, I
come now, give me one more chance, give
me one more anointing, give me one anointing
for the rest of the journey, I'm coming
broken and contrite, I don't care about public
opinion, all heaven looks down, Jesus has been
waiting for you to come today, and confess,
here I am Lord, I'm lying at your
feet, I'm useless, I'm powerless, I'm empty, cleanse
me and fill me, cleanse me and anoint
me, lead me into prayer I've never known,
lead me into trouble I've never known, lead
me into sacrifice I've never known, I let
go of my money, I let go of
my time, I let go of everything.
Well look, there's enough men kneeling here to
turn America upside down, if they'll stay faithful
to their commitment.
This may be God's last call to some
of us, he's called you early in the
week, you're in the bay, come and obey
him now, if there isn't room here, kneel
in the aisle, if there isn't room there,
kneel at your chair.
You women say, I'm going to be a
holy mother in the house, you fathers say,
I'm going to be a holy father in
the house, I'm going to be the example
of holiness, the example of purity, the example
of meekness.
God's tired of an arrogant ministry, self satisfied,
brother tell Jesus if need be, he isn't
going to add something to what you've got,
he's going to take away what you have
and put something there you've never had.
Don't be surprised if you wake up at
night with a broken heart, don't be surprised
if you're shopping and you can't see for
tears.
After this moment, you're not your own, you're
bought with a price.
It's your heart he's going to live in,
it's your mind he's going to use, it's
your spirit he's going to possess.
I want every man here to get a
double portion of the Spirit of God today.
Lord, I pray men will tell you now,
Lord, this moment, I want to be crucified
with Christ.
They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh
with their affections and lusts.
Lord, let men say they're willing to crucify
their TV, cruelly crucify their appetite for sport
and be totally gods from this moment, that
they'll never love anything else more than God,
they'll never love anything else more than the
will of God, they'll never commit anything more
of the power of God.
Lord, God of hosts, fall from heaven right
at this moment with the fire.
Don't let us wait for the judgment fire.
Send the fire of the Holy Ghost upon
us now, that everything in us may be
consumed, which is unlike Christ.
Burn off every barrier that's in us.
Lord, empower these precious men, I pray that
when they read the word of God, it
will burn like the fire burned in the
heart of Jeremiah, that, Lord, they won't have
to drag themselves to pray, that prayer will
be their burden, that when they stand in
the pulpit this coming weekend, there'll be something
new about them, there'll be an anointing from
heaven, there'll be a power from heaven, there'll
be a zeal from heaven, there'll be a
revelation from heaven.
If need be, Lord, give us all a
vision of hell to show us the horrors
of eternal darkness.
Show us, give us visions of eternal glory.
Lord, we're wanting your glory only at this
moment.
Lord, give us broken, weeping hearts, help us
to acknowledge.
Lord, I thought earlier this morning, well, I
think the psalmist says, store my tears in
thy bottle.
I wonder how many hundreds of tears you've
picked from Jackie's eyes, weeping over a corrupt
people, but Lord, we're just as lost.
We've got our divorce courts, we've got our
jails, we've got our kids with crime, we've
got our kids with AIDS.
Lord, give us a broken heart, help us
to weep over America like you wept over
Jerusalem.
Weep over it like Paul says to Timothy,
I'm mindful of your tears.
Lord, I pray, let these strong men know
what it is to pray in strength and
in weakness, to pray in tears, to pray
in brokenness, to preach in brokenness.
Maybe, Lord, some preachers will preach ten years
in their pulpits.
This Sunday we'll break down with grief, break
down at the unbelief of the people, break
down with the selfishness of the people and
realize, Lord, that we're holding up revival.
We're holding up God from coming for his
bribe.
So, Lord, do a great work of purging.
God, let every man go to his own
funeral at this altar this morning.
Father, we thank you again for your faithfulness
this morning.
God is faithful to convict us and is
faithful to cleanse us and is faithful to
endure us.
I trust right now there's pandemonium in hell
because these men have come broken, no pride,
seeking nothing, not asking for gifts, asking for
the anointing of the Spirit, asking for a
new endowment of power, a new introduction to
traveling prayer.
America could turn round on this meeting if
we obey God and go out and do
what he tells us to do.
Father, we thank you afresh for your faithfulness.
You could have cut us off weeks ago
when we were bankrupt and backsliding, but Lord,
you brought us in mercy to the cross
again this morning.
We thank you for the precious blood that
can cleanse us from all sin.
We thank you for the indwelling Holy Spirit
that can make us conquerors, more than conquerors,
through him that loved us.
Lord, take everybody here, whether they're at the
altar or in the congregation, take us to
a new level of victory.
Take us to a new level of revelation.
Take us to a new level of compassion
for a lost, dying world.
People are still on the muck heaps.
They're still going to clubs and other places
to find life.
They will not come.
They might have life.
I pray, Lord, that these precious pastors, particularly,
will over-forward divine life until people wonder
what happened to them.
And they'll say, you know, they went to
Anaheim, but they went to the cross, that
they went to the upper room.
They found every bondage broken.
They found every difficulty in their lives that
hindered blessing from being removed, was removed by
the mercy of God.
Lord, I pray again, let some of these
men who bow here, Lord, they've been working
in churches that are hard.
Maybe you want them to shift and go
to some other country.
Take somebody from this meeting to China.
Take somebody from this meeting behind the so
-called Iron Curtain.
Lord, let the ends of the earth feel
this meeting this morning.
Breathe on us, breath of God.
As Edwin Hatch said, breathe on me, breath
of God, till I am holy thine, till
all this earthly part of me glows with
thy fire divine.
Lord, let there be a holy fire in
the hearts of my brethren as they preach
this weekend.
Let there be a holy vision in their
eyes.
Let there be a holy compassion in their
spirits.
Lord, we pray we'll never go back after
this day.
Go forward.
There's so much land ahead to be possessed.
Lord, we don't want to disappoint you.
We've disappointed you too often.
Take us on.
Maybe too, Lord.
I think of William Booth just now, singing
now, Christ the burning, cleansing flame, send the
fire.
Look down and see this waiting host.
Give us the promised Holy Ghost.
We want the Pentecost, Lord, nothing less will
satisfy us.