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  (AUDIO SERMON CLIP) BEING STILL BEFORE THE LORD
  by Leonard Ravenhill
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of finding stillness and
quietness in the midst of a restless and noisy world, drawing
inspiration from a London preacher's practice of observing two minutes
of silence during church service. The speaker reflects on the profound
impact of silence in creating a space for God's presence and majesty to
be felt, allowing for a deep connection with the divine in the midst of
chaos.

Topics: "Silence", "Divine Connection"
Scripture References: Psalm 46:10, 1 Kings 19:12, Habakkuk 2:20, Mark 4:39, Isaiah 30:15, Exodus 14:14, Zephaniah 1:7, Ecclesiastes 5:2, James 1:19

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of finding stillness and quietness
in the midst of a restless and noisy world, drawing inspiration from a
London preacher's practice of observing two minutes of silence during
church service. The speaker reflects on the profound impact of silence
in creating a space for God's presence and majesty to be felt, allowing
for a deep connection with the divine in the midst of chaos.

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We live in a world of turmoil, a world that's restless, a world where
there's noise. There was a certain London preacher when I was in
England, he started the habit or method when he was in Leeds, the city
where I was raised, and they would have a hymn and a prayer and a song
and the choir would sing and then he would read the scripture and he'd
say, and now two minutes silence. All the lights in the church went out
except one light over the pulpit.

You never realize how long two minutes is till you sit there and
nobody's talking, nobody does a thing. Suddenly there was a stillness, I
was still, my spirit was quiet, my mind was quiet, you know as though
you slip everything out of gears and shut the engine off and relax and
just say. There was a place of majesty even in the stillness, not in the
awesomeness of being lifted to heaven for eight hours, but in the
stillness, not in the traveling breath, but in the stillness.

Speak Lord in the stillness while we wait on thee, hush our hearts to
listen in expectancy, then speak oh blessed master in this quiet hour,
let us see thy face Lord, feel thy touch of power, for the words thou
speakest, their life indeed, living bread from heaven now my spirit
feeds. It's the awesomeness of God, you don't want to look anywhere, you
don't want to see anybody, you don't want to hear anybody, you want your
ears to be deaf, you want your eyes not to be on anything.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/gIT4QbEbsgw.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/leonard-ravenhill/audio-sermon-clip-being-still-before-the-lord/
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