<TITLE>23. Par 55-59</TITLE>L-55 Her faith was, if she could get to the prophet. That's all what she needed to do. "I found you, Elijah. You are God's representative. God is in His prophet. And I've come here now. I'm satisfied that God will reveal it. All is well." She run up and fell down to his feet. Gehazi thought, "Here." He's supposed to keep people away from his master. He jerked her up.
Said, "Let her alone." Said, "Her heart's grieved. And I don't know what it's all about."
Then she begin to reveal to him what had happened. Now watch. He said, "Gehazi, take my staff, and you go forward, go to the baby. If somebody speaks to you, don't speak back. Somebody salutes you; don't salute them. Somebody says, 'Hello'; don't say nothing to them. Go straight."

L-56 That's what's the matter today. When we got a Message, we stop for social affair, for dinners and parties, everything like that, and little stitch and sew, and talk about Miss So-and-so. No wonder we can't get nowhere. A man that's got God's Message, "Let's go forward." All right.
"But take my staff." Elijah touched that staff. Elijah knew that anything he touched was blessed. Why do we lay hands on the sick? Why do we ordain the elders by laying hands on them? Elijah knew what he touched was blessed. I think that's where Paul got taking handkerchief's from his body. See?
Paul knowed that whatever he touched was blessed. If the people want to believe it, they say that you get the same blessing, just the same as he prayed for them and laid hands on them, whatever it was.

L-57 And Elijah knew that that staff would be blessed. He said, "Gehazi, put my staff in your hand, hold it before you, and go forward now. And don't check for nothing. Anybody speaks to you; don't speak. You got a commission now. Go take this staff."
That was all right. The handkerchief was all right. But that Shunammite woman, she didn't know whether God was in the staff or not, but she knowed God was in the prophet. She said, "As the Lord..."
He said, "Go on with her now."

L-58 She said, "As the Lord liveth, and your soul liveth, I'll not leave you." Oh, there you are. "I'm going to stay right here, right by your side, you got me on your hands now, until we know about this."
He said, "Go on with..."
"No."
And Gehazi went ahead, so he girded up his loins and started off with her. Here they go. The woman with the prophet, her heart's desire, going on down.
Elijah said, "I don't know. He ain't told me nothing about it. I can't tell you. I'll go down there then."
Here come Gehazi back. Said, "Did you lay the staff on him?"
"Yes."
"Was any signs?"

L-59 "No life. He's still asleep. He's still dead. He's gone." See? The woman's faith wasn't in that. It was in the prophet. She knowed that... Well, if she'd have believed that God was with the staff, it done the same thing. But she knew God was in His prophet.
So there--here went Elijah. All the neighbors had gathered at the door, and they were weeping, and screaming, and moaning, and carrying on like that. Old Elijah walked into a bunch like that. Walked in, pulled the door together, shut the door. There laid the little corpse, many, many hours had been dead, probably real late in the evening. Elijah walked up-and-down the room. Oh, my. Hallelujah. Walking up-and-down the room, walks over... He knew God was in him. He laid his body on the baby, put his lips against its lips, his nose against its nose, his forehead against its forehead. He held his body there, not prayer; put his body. He laid there.


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