We Need Another Pentecost by Leonard Ravenhill

The following is an excerpt from Mr Ravenhill's book, SODOM HAD NO BIBLE.

  Sodom had no churches, We have thousands. Sodom had no bible. We have millions. Sodom had no preachers. We have ten thousand plus thousands. Sodom had no Bible schools. We have hundreds. Sodom had no prayer meetings. We have thousands. Sodom had no Gospel broadcasts. As a nation we are richly blessed with Gospel broadcasts. Sodom had no histories of God's judgement to warn it of danger. We have volumes of them Sodom perished in spite of all these disadvantages. America today is living only by the mercies of God. The only reason we are not smoking in the fire wrath of God is mercy....m-e-r-c-y.... prolonged mercy!

There is no hope of immediate revival until the lostness of men grips us believers like a fever and moves us to personal and church housecleaning. The church in the book of Acts did not say prayers, it prayed in the Holy Ghost; it did not write articles of faith, it acted in faith; it did not gather in groups to study psychosomatic medicine, it healed the sick

We must despise diversions. Death to self interest, self pity, self seeking and all other human frailties.  The Holy Spirit must fill and flood and flow through the heart. Only then is it possible to fulfill our high calling of God in Christ Jesus. The answer to our dilemma is not a new revelation. the answer is seeking old paths and digging out old wells. The church needs to go back to Pentecost!