<TITLE>22. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 Yonder, when Mayo Brothers told me I had a short time to live, Jesus come along. It's always the darkest of hour, then He comes along. He's always does, just at the time, the right time, Jesus came along.
Now, little old Martha, she'd been very dilatory about things, but I--about the Kingdom of God, and so forth. But I admire her courage. As soon as she heard Jesus come, here she went just as hard as she could go. I can hear them say, "Now look at her a going. Now, he's goes out there; they say that holy-roller's coming back." She just brushed him aside. She wanted to get to Jesus.
Martha had been reading over there in the Bible somewhere's one time there was a Shunammite woman who did a great favor for a prophet. She knew he was a prophet. His name was Elijah. And Elijah blessed her and told her she was going to have a baby at a certain day, at a certain time. And that baby was born when she was passed the age of bearing. And she brought the baby. The little baby must've got a sun stroke, or something. He said, "My head. My head." He was out in the field with his father, about eleven o'clock in the day. He sent a servant in, put the baby on the mother's lap. And the baby laid there till noontime, and died. Look at that Shunammite woman, how faithful.

L-53 She took the baby, right up to the little chamber where Elijah had been sleeping. She made him a place there, where he could sleep when he come by. What a good place to take him, up to the prophet's bed, where the prophet slept. She laid him down on the--on the bed. She went down to the servant, and she said, "Saddle an ass now, and go forward, and don't stop," oh, my, "'less I bid you." Said, "Let's go to the Mount Carmel, to where that prophet's at."
And her husband said, "It's neither new moon, or Sabbath. He won't be there."
She said, "Everything is all right. Let me go." I like that determination. I like that. Hallelujah.
"Hallelujah" means, "praise our God," in Hebrew, so don't--don't get worried about it. All right.

L-54 She started off. She said, "Don't you slack up. You drive now. Drive this mule just as hard as he can go." When she got close to Mount Carmel, she knew one thing, that God had give her that baby. And the closest representative on earth, she knowed of, was Elijah, His prophet. She didn't know why God took the baby, but she knew if she could get in contact with that prophet, 'cause God was in the prophet. "And if I could get to that prophet, I'll find out why my baby's dead. He was the one that told me it would come. And I know that's God's prophet. And if I can only get to him, I may have to drive hard, and I may have to drive a long ways. But if I can get to the prophet, he can tell me why this baby's gone."
So here stood the prophet. God don't always tell His prophets everything's going on. So Elijah walked out to the door, and Gehazi was with him, and he said, "There comes that Shunammite." Said, "She looks worried. Something's wrong."
He said, "God's kept it from me. I don't know what's the matter." So he said, when he seen her coming, she got up close. He said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the baby?" Listen to this.
"All is well." Glory. You know you ain't hardly got enough room up here to preach right now.
Let me tell you something. "All is well." Why? The baby, a corpse, her husband wringing his hands, and walking the floor, and her heart broke. "All is well." Hum.


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