Are Christians today truly serious about their Christianity with the primary purpose of knowing and seeking God? Are we willing to surrender our time, our pleasures for the sake of Him who is infinitely worthy? Are we? Are we?? What is our reasonable service to God? Is it our attendance to the Sunday Meeting? Is it our attendance to the Bible Meeting? Is it our attendance to the Prayer Meeting? Our reasonable service is our whole lives! The wholeness of our bodies, our heart, mind and soul! Would you seek Him today, dear soul? Would you come to Him in thirst and hunger as your magnificent obsession? Come, let us worship the Lord in Spirit and in Truth!

Here’s a short video (Including a written transcript by me) featuring Paris Reidhead, Leonard Ravenhill and David Wilkerson on “Seeking God.” It felt to me a mini-version of the famous “Revival Hymn”.ⁱ

“I submit to you that we can’t longer go on waiting on the incompetent and the indifferent and the stubborn. The time has come when those who are of one mind and one heart must begin to meet on the grounds of the Lord’s meeting.

I believe that the answer is going to come when we re-establish again that grounds of fellowship as was done under John Wesley in the class meeting.

The answer??

Are you prepared to give a night of your life??

Above all the other responsibilities you have.

If you can’t give a night are you prepared to meet at 5 in the morning for 2 hours or more??

Are you prepared to expend effort? And energy? And sacrifice of your time? Because of the hunger of your heart to glorify God?

Will you submit to discipline??

Will you submit to teaching?

Are you prepared to follow in the way of the Word and of the Lord??

Will you stand on the grounds of brokenness?”

- Paris Reidhead

“But I tell you what, I want to see something that can empty taverns and empty brothels. And empty night clubs! And you know what? God’s gonna do it!

The other man with us was blind, totally blind. He’d been dead just a week or two and his wife wrote to us and she said, “Well, dear Leonard, Martin you know… You know, I miss it so much when I pass his room. He used to pray 7 or 8 hours a day. I could hear his groanings and tears and sobs and pleading with God to move over the nation.”You can have your PHD’s and DD’s and all you’ve got. If a man can’t pray, as far as I’m concerned, he’s an un-entity in the Kingdom of God.”

- Leonard Ravenhill

“Now Jesus said, “the gates of Hell shall not prevail against My Church.” He also said that “no weapon formed against it should prosper.” But you look around now and you see that the gates of Hell are prospering. They’re prospering against many Churches. The “man-churches”, I call them. They are prevailing. The weapons of the enemy are prevailing and the word prevail means to overpower, to defeat.”

- David Wilkerson

[Are you going to get serious about this?]

“But when the invitation’s been given and people come and stand there, and say, ‘I want to go on with God! I’m desperately concerned for the fullness of Christ! I’m going to meet Him at any cost! I’m willing to adjust my schedule, adjust my plans. I’m willing to take a night of my life and as many hours as God requires! But I’m going to find out how to live holy for Christ.’”

- Paris Reidhead

“We need people to go forth with a new birth message. Forget all about tongues. Forget all about miracles and signs and wonders, in case they’re not happening anyhow!

Let’s get back to real genuine conversion.

If God is in the midst a lot of our stuff would never take place. Just let God come, He’s gonna replenish.”

- Leonard Ravenhill

Footnotes

1. I do not agree wholly on everything these preachers said, i.e. Non-reformed positions on the view of God and why/how He moves. Listen with discernment and let not emotion take you over, instead, the Spirit of God and the Word of Truth. [↩]