<TITLE>07. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 "Well, there you are. The sin be on you." I said, "Remember...?..." not no money, nothing. I was in an awful condition. No money to carry the meeting on myself. And I was just kinda up against it.
So then, I said, "Well..." We waited that night. The next day broke all pretty and nice. And just about the time for the service, there come a blizzard, like to froze everybody to death.
Come on back to the building, I said, "Didn't I tell you." I said, "Now, tomorrow night, we'll have an earthquake." See? I said, "We're out of the will of God, brethren."
They said, "You mean we'll have an earthquake?"
I said, "I don't know whether we will, or not. I just said that. There'll be something happen. We're out of the will of God." Two o'clock in the morning, they was still going heavy at it. I said, finally said, "Now look. God has told me to go back to Johannesburg, and stay there for two weeks, go up to Brother Jackson's, and then from there to Durban, and from there I go home."
Then... "Oh, no!"

L-29 I said, "Well, we got the favor with the newspapers, with the medical association, with the everything, and thousands of people where they could eat and everything and a place to stay. And here we're laying on the prairie, no place, nothing to eat, and drowned, and everything else, us out of the will of the Lord." I said, "Can't you see, brethren?"
"Well, we promised to do this though." Well, 'course, they were men of honor, trying to keep their promise to their brethren. But, brother, that's the reason in my meeting tonight, we can't set like Oral Roberts and the rest of these fellows. They know where they're going two years from now, if they don't die. They can set their... Mine must be led day by day, meeting by meeting. Wherever He says go, I got to go. If He'd tell me right tonight not be here tomorrow, I wouldn't be here tomorrow. And if He told me tonight to stay here a--a year, I'd be right here a year, if I had to stand on the outskirts of Zion. And wherever He says go, that's just where I go. That's where I stay till He says go. It's got to be that way. I can't set itinerary. I can't tell you where I'll be the next day; I don't know. I make no promises.

L-30 We're supposed to go down to Chicago next week, if the Lord willing. If the Lord doesn't permit it, if He speaks to me tonight to stay in Zion, I stay at Zion. If He met with me tonight, and said...
One day I was down yonder at St. Louis, Missouri, just left Zion, and I was having a good meeting. And that very night, the Holy Spirit come in and said to leave St. Louis and go back to Zion. And I left St. Louis the next day, and begin the following day the Zion meeting. You remember it. You see what the Lord did? See? Follow.
So then, on into the night we went arguing, arguing, arguing. I said, "Nope! Going back tomorrow. Right back to Johannesburg."

L-31 Well, what will we do when we got to Johannesburg? I didn't have money to come home. I didn't... And coming home would be wrong. I was supposed to stay there in that meeting. Who's going back it up? What we going to do? Oh, I was in an awful fix. And it just seemed like...
I said, "All right, as Paul said of long ago, 'You should have listened and not have loosed from Crete and caused all this trouble.'" So I said, "Now, God has a permissive will. But I never like to work God's permissive will. I want His perfect will (See?), always." If... I don't want to work secondarily. I want to know what He wants me to do, and I'll go do it. And so, and then--then, when they heard about permissive will, oh, my, that settled the thing, altogether.


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