I have never heard anybody like Leonard Ravehhill before I read "Why Revival Tarries." And I don't think I ever will. The man was timely and prophetic. He was a man that rightly owned the title and office of a 'Prophet.' He was like he was because he had experienced so much of God in his life. He has done much for the true church of Jesus Christ! Even though most people in the church ignored his message, those who had an ear to hear knew the desperated cries of Christ through him. The testimony of A.W. Tozer is staggering enough, check it:“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.” Hearing such a thing from Tozer who was said to "Shoot lazers from the pulpit," when he preached and was called a prophet is intense. Both AW Tozer and Leonard Ravenhill have inspired me very much. Why? Because they walked with God.
