<TITLE>15. Par 57-61</TITLE>L-57 God moving through the wilderness yonder... Come a time they needed something to eat. When they needed something to eat, God just rained manna down out of heaven, God's provided way.
"How we going to eat? We're out here there's no bread, there's no wheat, there's no corn? What are we going to do?"
Don't make any difference, God said, "Come out here; I'll take care of the rest of it." And manna rained down out of heaven. Isn't that glorious? Just rained manna down, all you have to do is go out and pick it up. But don't pick up too much of it at one time. 'Cause you try to get enough tonight to make it last tomorrow night, it got wiggletails in it, rotten.

L-58 That's about what's half the matter with the church tonight: stagnated with what we call in the south, up there, wiggletails. That's what's the matter with a lot people's experience today, say, "Well, I--I got blessed a way back yonder, ten years ago." What about now? How are you prayed up now?
Reminds me of a little Irish mother coming across from Ireland. She's was going over to New York to meet her daughter. On the road over, they was sending a SOS, the ship was about to sink. They was just playing some kind of a jazz music down in the--on the floor and all of them dancing. The captain, the skipper, come down yonder and said, "Just a moment, everybody," said, "change your music, if we can hold out thirty minutes we'll be there, if we don't we're going to the bottom of the sea."

L-59 And everybody begin to play: "Nearer My God To Thee," and everybody fell on the floor and begin to praying. Little old Irish mother in a little old dress hooked up around this way and her long sleeves, she said, "Glory, Hallelujah, Hallelujah."
Well, the skipper said, "Madam, what's the matter with you?"
Said, "I'm happy."
Said, "You misunderstood me." Said, "Did you know I said in thirty minutes from now we may be in the bottom of the sea."
Said, "I understood you."
Said, "Why don't you pray?"
She said, "I'm prayed up, don't have to pray." Right. "I'm prayed up." Said, "Oh, glory, praise the Lord."
He said, "How can you do that, lady? What are you shouting about if you're prayed up?"
Said, "Well, you said in thirty minutes from now, if we held out we'd be in New York."
"That's right."
"And if we didn't hold out, we'd be in the bottom of the sea."
"That's right."

L-60 She said, "Glory." She said, "I got a daughter in New York I'm going to see. And if I... And if we don't hold out I got one in Glory." Said, "I'm going to see one in thirty minutes. Hallelujah, praise the Lord."
That's the way you want to live (Hallelujah. Right.): prayed up and ready to go. Amen. Walk in God's provided way, ready for any minute. Amen. For you don't know what minute He will call you to come in--in His Presence.

L-61 There I can see the Israelites as they went though. First thing you know, they didn't have any remedies out there, Dr. Moses couldn't get a hold of the right kind of a serum, so they had some snakebites. So God provided a way. That right? He made a serpent, made it out of brass and put it on a pole. And the only thing the people had to do, was go and look at that pole, that serpent on that pole, and believe that God put it up there, and they got healed. Someone said, "Well, I'm going down here to see if I can get some snakeroot and see if I can put it on."
The other one said, "Oh, John, where you going?"
Said, "I'm going to get some snakeroot and put it on here see if it'd heal it."
Said, "I'm just going to take God's provided way, just look at the serpent and live."


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