<TITLE>03. Par 9-11</TITLE>L-9 I noticed last evening, when the man that was blind was brought up on the platform and received his sight, that struck fire right away. See? The deaf woman that come, while I was yet holding her hand and asking the evil to leave her, she begin quivering all over; she said, "I can hear you, I can hear you." Quickly, it struck fire. And by the time I was leaving, the whole building seemed to be illuminated with God's Presence.
Jesus taken what faith the blind man had, or what faith the woman had that was deaf, and started with that, building faith. See what I mean? He takes something to do something with.
Now, in order for Him to get something, someone had to surrender something. That was the little boy: he had to surrender his lunch. Now, to the little lad, the lunch in the little boy's hand wasn't very much; he could only partially feed himself, perhaps. But once placed in the hands of Jesus, it fed five thousand.

L-10 Now, maybe your faith is not very much, but if you, what little faith you got, if you'll put it in His hands, it might cause a revival to break out in all Chicago here. See? You've got to have something to do something with. And what you've got in your hand, in your hand it's not much. But in God's hand, it's wonderful what He can do with such little.
One time an old sheepherder by the name of Moses, he was herding sheep one day, packing in his hand an old dry stick, and God spoke to him by the burning bush. And Moses turned away to see. And God got an audience with him and told him He was going to send him down in Egypt to take over Egypt, bring his people out.
Now, what a strange thing for God to take a man at eighty years old, backslidden, running from God, and at eighty years old, to send down into Egypt to overcome a big nation like that. It would be like sending one man into Russia now to take over. Egypt was the best fortified nation in the world. Their great units of chariots, and spearmen, and horsemen, and bowmen, and slingmen, it was--had the whole world shaking at its feet. And yet, God goes to this old man with long white beard and hair, and said, "Go down, Moses, and take over."
How ridiculous that would sound to reasons. You cannot reason God. You can't reason out God. God's not to be reasoned; He's to be obeyed. What God says do, don't reason with Him, just do it. Reason's to be nonsense in that state. Moses said, "What can I do about going?" Give him a sign.
And he had a... He said, "What is that in your hand?"

L-11 Now, Moses had less than the boy. The boy had some food; Moses had a dry stick in his hand. In Moses' hand it was nothing else but a stick that he'd picked up, perhaps, on the desert. But once, when that hand of faith taken a hold of that stick, it become God's judgment rod to the world. That dry stick became the judgment rod. Remember, Moses stretched that rod. He stretched the rod over the sea; he stretched it in the air. It was God's judgment rod.
Those Egyptians could've ever get that rod from Moses, they'd had had the Israelites whipped. And that's what takes today, as the rod was in Moses' hand, so is the Name of Jesus Christ in the Church hand. If the Church will hold that Name of Jesus, esteem It and honor It, and quit using It in slang, and so forth, and use It in power and reverence, It'll conquer every enemy that God's got on earth. "In My Name they shall cast out devils; in My Name they shall lay hands on the sick," all these things in His Name.


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