Revivalist and author Leonard Ravenhill said:
The fire of hell is unquenchable. The fire of the Holy Ghost is unquenchable.
I know there is a lot of opposition against the second blessing. I challenge you to find a man that has made history in God’s kingdom who somewhere didn’t have a second crisis after he was born again in the Spirit of God.
One of the Quakers said he found something in him that wouldn’t keep peace. He wanted to get rid of the thing in him that was always troubling him. And he did, with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
William Booth said, “I found that I ebbed and flowed until one day the Holy Ghost came in his fullness.” Then he wrote that marvelous battle hymn that today’ s church doesn’t know.
The Salvation Army was a penniless organization that went into seventy countries in ninety years. Not seventy cities, but seventy countries! Men and women left their castles in England. Professors left their professions. Why? Because they could see that fire as clearly as Israel could see that pillar of fire at night. The Holy Ghost was there! And old William had them going down the streets at night marching and singing:
“Thou Christ, the burning cleansing flame, send the fire!
Thy blood-bought gift today we claim, send the fire!
Look down and see this waiting host
Give us the promised Holy Ghost
We want another Pentecost.”
I’m not sure we want it. But we need it!
~ L. Ravenhill, “Will You Drink the Cup?”
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