Desperate Prayer: Sermon by Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill illustrates from Hannah’s travail how intercession is likened to spiritual pregnancy and birth. As travail precedes the birth of a child, so birth pangs of desperate prayer precede revival. In the same way, travail in prayer precedes a work of God in our personal lives.
Ravenhill draws upon the heroic exploits of prayer warriors Rees Howell, John Hyde, Praying Payson, E. M. Bounds, David Brainerd, A. W. Tozer, Murray M’Cheyne, and Duncan Campbell.
This sermon echoes Ravenhill’s article The Gospel of Prayer.
Leonard Ravenhill
Questions:
- Do you want someone else to write your love letters to God?
- Have you considered that the greatest prayers in the Bible have no language?
- The whole pattern of life is broken up with a pregnancy. Has your pattern of life changed such that you find prayer your greatest priority?
- Are you travailing in prayer? Birth pangs of desperate prayer precede a work of God, whether it is in our personal lives, our church, or our community.
- Are you asking God to bless you or to make you a blessing?
OTHER ARTICLES WITH RAVENHILL EXCERPTS:
RELATED ARTICLES ON PRAYER:
- God Answers Desperate, Persistent Prayer
- The Gospel of Prayer (by Leonard Ravenhill)
- Get Alone With God: The Religion of the Closet
- Prayer Is a Two-Way Conversation
- Don’t Get in a Hurry in the Prayer Closet
- Praying With Heaven and Earth at Your Disposal
- Prayer Is an Invitation to Experience God’s Boundlessness
- Satan Trembles When He Sees the Weakest Saint Praying
- Drawing Near: Treasuring Communion (Part One)
- Drawing Near: Treasuring Communion (Part Two)
- Reigning Through Prayer, Part One: Jesus, the Interceding Ruler
- Reigning Through Prayer, Part Two: Joining Jesus at the Throne of Intercession
- Kings and Priests—Praying with Authority
- I Will Run to You: A Prayer of Pursuit
- Holy Abandon
- Persisting in Secret Prayer
- Why Is It So Hard for Christians to Pray? (David Wilkerson Sermon)
- The Touch of God – Moses: Sermon by David Wilkerson
- “A Call to Anguish” by David Wilkerson
- Training to Pray With Great Power
- Bite-Size Encouragements to Being a Person of Prayer
- Perfect Solitude: Following Our Master’s Steps
- Andrew Murray on Prayerlessness and God’s Holiness
- Prayer for Revival Cannot Be Answered Until…
- Come Up and Wait
- God Answers Prayer
- The Power of Prayer
- Your Father Gives Good Gifts
- Waiting Expectantly: Praying in Hope When Times Seem Hopeless
- Waging War With Your Promise
- God Promised: Do I Still Pray About It?
- How Do I Pray for Lost Loved Ones?
- Renew Your Passion to Pray for the Lost: 5 Thoughts from George Mueller
- Finding a Quiet Hour to Connect With Heaven
- Begin Your Prayers With Praise
- What Will You Do With Your Arrows
- The Mind-Blowing Mystery and Privilege of Prayer: Francis Chan Sermon
- Resources to Encourage You in Prayer: Sermons, Webcast, and Prayer Journal Apps
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NEEDED PRAYER – My nephew Nathaniel Gaver and his family were arrested in Cottonwood, AZ in March 2015. Nathan has listened to Leonard Ravenhill's ministry and has asked me to ask prayer for his family. Their crime is trying to protect their family and for their family to stay together.
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