Saints,
We have mentioned this great resource before but felt we should do it again, the Lord has really encouraged the forming of SermonIndex through the reading of the book "Why Revival Tarries" by Leonard Ravenhill and his sermons were the first that were put on SermonIndex to promote genuine biblical revival.
Brother Mack Tomilson felt the call of the Lord to put together a biography on the life of Ravenhill and this was really a great need for the evangelical church to learn from the testimony of this dear brother in the Lord.
Paul Washer said in response to this book: "I was introduced to Leonard Ravenhill at the very beginning of my Christian pilgrimage and the impact of his life upon mine remains until this day. He lived as one who dwelt in the shadow of the Almighty and he preached as one sent from God. He knew God's presence, wore His mantle, bore His burdens, and spoke His truth. He was the rarest of commodities in his day and ours - a man of God."
You can purchase the book here: http://www.ravenhillbiography.com
The kindle version is here: http://www.amazon.com/Light-Eternity-Leonard-Ravenhill-ebook/dp/B005M23K2Q
Quotes from Ravenhill:
"Oh, my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice. Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is defiled, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts."
"Does God ever need more patience with His people than when they are “praying”? We tell Him what to do and then how to do it. We pass judgments and make appreciations in our prayers. In short, we do everything except pray! No Bible school can teach us this art. What Bible school has “prayer” on its curriculum? The most important thing a man can study is the prayer part of the book. But where is this taught? Let us strip off the last bandage and declare that many of our presidents and teachers do not pray, shed no tears, know no travail. Can they teach what they do not know?"
"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. No man is greater than his prayer life."
"The preacher must pray. It is not that he can pray or that he could pray, but that he must pray if he intends to have a spiritual church. There is no other way to power except to pray. Hidden prayer is like heat smoldering in the bowels of the earth, far beneath the steel cone of a volcano. Though to be either may be years of inactivity, sooner or later there will be an explosion. So it is with prayer in the Spirit—it never dies."