<TITLE>24. Par 96-99</TITLE>L-96 I thought, "And that's true. No matter what the devil says, as long as I can feel the Holy Ghost around me, I don't care what they say." Hallelujah. God bless your heart. God give me the Holy Ghost to escape everything with even--even everything and then even death can't hurt you. Hallelujah. I'll fly away someday.
I noticed him there. I said, "Praise God for the eagle." I looked at him like that. He got tired of that little old squirrel setting there chattering it. He knowed I was I was his friend. He knowed I wasn't going to hurt him, and he looked at that little old squirrel. He just got tired of him, and he just made a great big jump like that and made about two flops, and you know what he did? He just set his wings, and the first thing you know, he just begin to rise up. He never flopped his wings. He just set his wings, and every time them air current waves would come in over that mountain, he'd just ride up, ride up.

L-97 I stood there crying like a baby. I thought, "O God. Thank You, Lord. Praise the Lord." If somebody'd been there, they'd thought they had a insane man out of the institution up there. Around and around and around the tree I went as hard as I could go screaming top of my voice. I didn't care what anybody thought. I was worshipping God. Made no difference to me, I have a little heart spell once in a while anyhow, so I, like that, you know, worshipping.
And I thought, "Oh, look at that big fellow. He don't flop, and try, and fly up, and try like a lot of us people, "Why, if the Methodists don't treat me right. I'll go to--go over to the Baptists. The Baptists don't treat me right, I'll go over to the Pentecostals," and you're just packing your letter from place to place. You've wore it out. Why don't you put it in heaven and forget about it? Right.

L-98 But what's he doing? He never flopped his wings. He just knowed how to set his wings and ride the power when she come in. I thought, "O God, give us faith to know how to set our wings in Your power, and just ride away from this earthbound chatter, chatter saying... Little old squirrel saying, "Chatter, chatter, chatter: Days of miracles is past. No such thing as Divine healing. Ain't no such thing... Apostolic age is gone." He just rode on away from it, not flopping, just set his wings. He just rode on.
I thought, "God, if that ain't real I never heard it." Ride away from it. Just set your wings. When the power of God comes in, ride up on it. The power of God moves in, ride on up on it. The first thing you know you can't even hear their sounds then "Well, if you don't belong to our church, if you don't belong here you don't..." You're just riding on away from it, on and on and on and on. My, how marvelous.

L-99 Coming down through British Colombia, I got--was hunting a big old grizzly bear. I was eleven hundred miles from a hardtop road, and I was way back in there, and I got turned around. I thought, "I will get my way out. Give me enough time, so I just... And God as my helper." I got lost back there and it come a dark.
I said, "Well, I know which direction to go. You got one little spot to find." So I took off, and I was way late. The moon come out, and I passed by an old burn-over. And I thought, "Isn't that strange?" And the moon was out, and all at once when I passed by looked... It looked spooky, great, big, old blistered trees where the fire burned them. One time they were great towering pines. Put on your jacket now. Great towering pines stood there alive and doing things, but the fire come and burned them all down. And I thought, "Lord, what--what's this about?"


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