God-hungry men find God. “As the hart pants after the water brooks” (Ps 42:1), so the souls of the Upper-Room crowd panted for the living God. Spiritually naked, they fled to Him to be clothed upon with the blessed Spirit. Empty, they craved to be filled. Powerless, they tarried until they were endued. Bankrupt, they pled the riches of His grace. Then this fear-filled crowd became fire-filled messengers. Though swordless, these soldiers of Christ fought the might of imperial Rome and won. Though without ecclesiastical prestige, they opposed the frozen orthodoxy of sterile Judaism and pierced it to the heart. Unlettered, they unblushingly declared “the whole counsel of God” and eventually staggered the intellectual Greeks. Without question, the greatest need of the hour is that the Church meet her ascended Lord again, and get an enduement that would usher in the revival of revivals just before the night of nights settles over this age. — Leonard Ravenhill
Today’s Reading: Ecclesiastes 2-4 Memorize: John 8:12