INTRODUCTION

I am very pleased that after so much time and hard work, we finally have uploaded a web page for Cueva de Adulam ministries!, I am aware that we live in a time where communication has been revolutionized by the internet, and I am happy to be able to be in touch with you through this webpage. I hope you all enjoy it, and I just want to let you know that we are open to any suggestions that you may have to improve it.
We are all influenced to some degree by men and women who impact us; through their lives, and sometimes through their writings. We are living in a day and age in which society in which book reading is becoming a lost art, but I would like to encourage all of you to cultivate good reading habits since great men and women of God have left us their writings as a timeless heritage through which they can continue to impact future generations even after they have parted.
Personally, there are two men in particular who have had a huge impact on my life, and to whom I attribute a great part of my Christian formation. One of them, A.W. Tozer went to be with the Lord before I could have the honor of meeting him personally, but his books have been instrumental in guiding and helping me in my walk with the Lord. I strongly recommend any A.W. Tozer book, and I can guarantee it will change your life. The other man, whom I did have the honor of knowing in person, and whose life was always a challenge for me to live up to, was Leonard Ravenhill. He was a man who, although rejected by many during his lifetime, is accepted by many as a prophetic voice to the Church after his death.
I was recalling my early years as a Christian, and how Brother Ravenhill held a prayer meeting every Monday afternoon. I faithfully attended these meetings every Monday, and just hearing him pray somehow made me feel closer to God. One day, I opted to go fishing and missed the prayer meeting. I saw Brother Ravenhill a few days later, and he said, “I missed you at the prayer meeting, Robert.” I apologized and explained that I had gone fishing. He just smiled a funny little smile and answered, “Oh, that’s ok, Peter went fishing too!” Then he paused for an instant before continuing, “When he was backslidden!”
We are living in a time when there are many so called prophets, but in reality true prophets are very scarce. In the prologue of his book “Why Revival Tarries” Brother Ravenhill’s good friend A.W. Tozer wrote this regarding true prophets.

A.W. TOZER on TRUE PROPHETS

Great industrial concerns have in their employ men who are needed only when there is a breakdown somewhere. When something goes wrong with the machinery, these men spring into action to locate and remove the trouble and get the machinery rolling again. For these men a smoothly operating system has no interest. They are specialists concerned with trouble and how to find and correct it. In the kingdom of God things are not too different. God has always had His specialists whose chief concern has been the moral breakdown, the decline in the spiritual health of the nation or the church. Such men were Elijah, Jeremiah, Malachi and others of their kind who appeared at critical moments in history to reprove, rebuke and exhort in the name of God and righteousness. A thousand or ten thousand ordinary priests or pastors or teachers could labor quietly on almost unnoticed while the spiritual life of Israel or the church was normal. But let the people of God go astray from the paths of truth and immediately the specialist appeared almost out of nowhere. His instinct for trouble brought him to the help of the Lord and of Israel. Such a man was likely to be drastic, radical, possibly at times violent, and the curious crowd that gathered to watch him work soon branded him as extreme, fanatical, negative. And in a sense they were right. He was single-minded, severe, fearless, and these were the qualities the circumstances demanded. He shocked some, frightened others and alienated not a few, but he knew who had called him and what he was sent to do. His ministry was geared to the emergency, and that fact marked him out as different, a man apart. To such men as this the church owes a debt too heavy to pay. The curious thing is that she seldom tries to pay him while he lives, but the next generation builds his sepulcher and writes his biography, as if instinctively and awkwardly to discharge an obligation the previous generation to a large extent ignored...

[-From the Foreword to Leonard Ravenhill's "Why Revival Tarries".]

These men and their writings have made a huge impression on me as a young man, and now also impact the Cueva de Adulam Ministry. In no way do we think we are exclusive, but we know that our calling is to raise up a generation of young people that will affect the world with radical lives full of integrity, bearing the message that transformed the world in the first century.
“The generation that the world could change, will change the world”