Holiness And Prayer

By Leonard Ravenhill

    Duncan Campbell, used of God in the Hebrides Revival of the 1950s, was preaching one night when the heavens seemed like brass.  Duncan stopped preaching, and he called on a young man to pray.  The “laddie” halted before he prayed to say, “Ach!  What’s the use of praying if we are not right with God?”  He then recited the 24th Psalm.  The fear of the Lord came upon many.  The “fire” fell and the area knew that the Lord had visited His people.

    How demanding the Lord is in this 24th Psalm!  God says we cannot “ascend into the hill of the Lord” (come into His presence) in an unholy state.  “Who shall stand in His holy place?”  God gives the answer:  “He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart...” (Psa. 24:4).  Without holiness, “no man shall see the Lord” (Heb. 12:14).