Greetings brothers! I just wanted to share how my trip to the conference was!
The conference this past weekend was absolutely powerful! God moved in such a mighty way throughout the conference. The fellowship of believers was so sweet and getting to meet some of the speakers and the other men of God has made a huge impact on my life. When you get around those people who are all on the same wavelength, you can't help but feel at home and see just a bit what heaven will be like :-)
I got the privilege to talk with Brother Paul and it was truly wonderful getting to meet with him. Like brother K_DAY I couldn't help but talk about Leonard Ravenhill with him. And the same reaction happened! His eyes opened a bit and he exclaimed, "That man was a DANGEROUS man on the pulpit, but off he was one of the most gentle and kind men of God that you would meet." After that we began talking about our favorite Ravenhill stories as well :-P
One story he shared was this time when him and his friend had gone to hear Leonard Ravenhill speak and his friend was sitting at the front and Brother Paul was somewhere in the back. As Leonard Ravenhill was speaking, some person in the balcony was talking and Leonard Ravenhill called him out. As Leonard Ravenhill was calling him out, brother Paul's friend in the front was exclaiming "amen! that's right!" And after Leonard Ravenhill had finished calling out the person in the balcony, he turns to brother Paul's friend and says, "and I don't need a cheerleading section from you either!" Brother Paul had said he was glad that he wasn't sitting next to his friend! Brother Paul said also it was a great thing that Leonard Ravenhill wasn't here for blogs :-P
Another time he shared about this time when there was a blonde headed girl sitting and talking while Leonard Ravenhill was speaking. He calls her out and tells her in front of everyone, "blondie you can leave if you are going to keep this up" Well after a few minutes the girl got up and began to leave. Then Leonard Ravenhill stops speaking and says "listen blondie, if you continue to have an attitude like this you'll end up becoming a prostitute and your dad is probably the deacon!" and it come to find out, her dad was a deacon! Brother Paul said, "and people think I'm bad!"
We also talked about Duncan Campbell and Brother Paul did a great impersonation voice of Duncan Campbell saying, "Duncan Campbell did not bring revival to the Hebrides!" He said that because Duncan Campbell always starts his sermons off like that. After talking about all the great men God had used, Brother Paul gazed over and said, "oh where are those guys."
Along with meeting Brother Paul, I got to meet a few of the other speakers at the conference like brother Mack Tomlinson. It was an absolutely amazing time getting to talk with him as well! He was a good friend with Leonard Ravenhill and met him somewhere in the 70's. He shared about so many things that I was always interested in knowing about Leonard Ravenhill that I have even asked on this forum board. One of the questions I asked him was where his sons were and he said that David Ravenhill lives where Leonard used to live before he went home in Texas. I knew that David Ravenhill was around the US somewhere and I was really curious where his first son Paul Ravenhill was (since I had heard so much about him and his praying at 16 and as his dad would call him "the best missionary ever") Brother Mack said that he believes Paul Ravenhill is somewhere in S. America, more specifically Argentina, but wasn't completely sure in that country. He said that he is speaking there.
Another thing I asked Brother Mack was if he had ever been in a prayer meeting with Leonard Ravenhill. He said, "I was in prayer meetings with Leonard for about 7 years." So I couldn't help but ask him exactly what it was like. He shared by saying that there would usually be 80-100 people that would come and pray and it would start with them singing hymns. Then after singing, Leonard would preach a bit, then he would begin praying and then others would pray. Every now and again Leonard would pray again and they would just continually pray.
Brother Mack also had a book table at the conference and I almost cried seeing all these old books by dead men on the table that you don't see now adays. Most of the books were from banner of truth. Some of the books that were there were books of Jonathan Edwards, CH Spurgeon, AW Tozer, JC Ryle, Leonard Ravenhill's "Revival Praying", The Autobiography of George Mueller, A book on John Paton and another one on Margaret Paton on their letters as missionaries.
There was also a brother their named Charles Leither who was a wonderful brother I got to meet. His wife placed in my hands "The hidden life of Prayer" by David MacIntyre. Later on Brother Charles says to me that Leonard Ravenhill gave that book to him long ago. It was kind of funny because yesterday I was rewatching the interview with Leonard Ravenhill and as he is talking about his days at cliff college, he spoke about the book as well.
There were so many people that actually knew Leonard Ravenhill at the conference. One man that I had pizza with shared with me how Leonard Ravenhill's house is very modest. He talked about how it was about from where we were eating to the salad bar.
Aside from that, probably two of the most greatest things that I will remember at the conference was first the opportunity to get in a prayer meeting before the conference with these men. Getting to pray in the same room with Brother Paul, Mack, and Bill was encouraging. The other thing I will always remember is brother Bill McCleod. The opportunity to talk with him and even share my heart and areas where I lacked was so deep. I will never forget that man.
In all of this, after the conference Brother McCleod was also to speak the next day at church on sunday at first baptist of muscle shoals. I would highly highly encourage everyone to listen to the message! It is on psalm 37 and about believing and committing. The message reminds me of a sermon by Zac Poonen who spoke on faith. You can find the sermon by brother McCleod here:
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and here is the sunday evening service he spoke at which I haven't listened to yet:
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truly it was such a blessed time that I will not ever forget. The deeper hunger to pray and dive deeper into the scriptures and just romance with our Father has ever so increased. praise and glory be to Him! For He deserves it all!
blessings.
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