Leonard Ravenhill's opening prayer says it all: "Take us out of the nursery to the armory." He calls upon the church to awake to fervent prayer, salting our appetites by the example of others: people he had met personally Duncan Campbell, Smith Wigglesworth, Jonathan Goforth's daughter and people whose lifestyle of agonizing intercession had impacted him David Brainerd, Praying Payson of Portland, John Hyde, Susanna Wesley and others .
