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Leonard Ravenhill's America Is Too Young to Die
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David Ravenhill (1942–present). Born in 1942 in England, David Ravenhill is a Christian evangelist, author, and teacher, the son of revivalist Leonard Ravenhill. Raised in a devout household, he graduated from Bethany Fellowship Bible College in Minneapolis, where he met and married Nancy in 1963. He worked with David Wilkerson’s Teen Challenge in New York City and served six years with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), including two in Papua New Guinea. From 1973 to 1988, he pastored at New Life Center in Christchurch, New Zealand, a prominent church. Returning to the U.S. in 1988, he joined Kansas City Fellowship under Mike Bickle, then pastored in Gig Harbor, Washington, from 1993 to 1997. Since 1997, he has led an itinerant ministry, teaching globally, including at Brownsville Revival School of Ministry, emphasizing spiritual maturity and devotion to Christ. He authored For God’s Sake Grow Up!, The Jesus Letters, and Blood Bought, urging deeper faith. Now in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, he preaches, stating, “The only way to grow up spiritually is to grow down in humility.”
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This sermon emphasizes the urgent need for prayer and spiritual revival in America, drawing attention to the moral, economic, political, and spiritual decline of the nation. It stresses the importance of humbling ourselves, turning from wickedness, and seeking God's face in prayer as the key to healing the land. The message highlights the necessity for desperate, fervent prayer to bring about a transformation and calls believers to a deeper level of intercession for the nation's restoration.
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Hi, my name is David Ravenhill, I'm here to let you know we have just republished my father's book, America is too young to die. This book was written over 30 years ago and yet I believe its message is for today. This book was written because my father had a burden, a burden to see this nation live. He saw the handwriting on the wall, he saw this nation falling apart morally, economically, politically, but most of all spiritually. He said if Americans don't concentrate in prayer, they will pray in concentration camps. I believe that day is very close. Only God can save our nation. The White House does not have the answer, Congress doesn't have the answer, no man has the answer. God has given us the answer. He said if my people, which are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, turn from their wicked ways and seek my face, I will heal their land. We need God's people to pray. This is a call to pray, a call to action, a call to get into our closet and begin to pray like never before. My father used to say God doesn't answer prayer, he only answers desperate prayer. It's going to take desperate praying to save our nation. We need God to rend the heavens and come down. God and God alone has the answer. We need to pray. I'm urging you, challenging you, to begin to pray like you've never ever prayed and ask God to heal our land. God bless you. Thank you.
Leonard Ravenhill's America Is Too Young to Die
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David Ravenhill (1942–present). Born in 1942 in England, David Ravenhill is a Christian evangelist, author, and teacher, the son of revivalist Leonard Ravenhill. Raised in a devout household, he graduated from Bethany Fellowship Bible College in Minneapolis, where he met and married Nancy in 1963. He worked with David Wilkerson’s Teen Challenge in New York City and served six years with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), including two in Papua New Guinea. From 1973 to 1988, he pastored at New Life Center in Christchurch, New Zealand, a prominent church. Returning to the U.S. in 1988, he joined Kansas City Fellowship under Mike Bickle, then pastored in Gig Harbor, Washington, from 1993 to 1997. Since 1997, he has led an itinerant ministry, teaching globally, including at Brownsville Revival School of Ministry, emphasizing spiritual maturity and devotion to Christ. He authored For God’s Sake Grow Up!, The Jesus Letters, and Blood Bought, urging deeper faith. Now in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, he preaches, stating, “The only way to grow up spiritually is to grow down in humility.”