<TITLE>07. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 She said, "Nay, now," said, "I--I my husband's old," but just the same Elijah said that, "it was in the Name of the Lord," so that settled it. When God says anything, that completes it right then. That's all. No need of wondering any more, God has said so.
If God said that Christ was returning to the earth, I believe it. That's right. If God said these kinds of times have come, and men would be heavy high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than God, I believe it. That's right. Everything that God says, I believe it.
He said, "He was wounded from our transgressions." I believe it. He said, "By His strips, we were healed," I believe it. So that settles it. See? If you believe it, then take it, act on it, and that's... The results will come.
No matter how long it tarries, just keep believing it. Abraham tarried, or Abraham waited for twenty-five years before the promise ever come. But he was getting stronger all the time, praising God: Baby was going to be born anyhow, made arrangements for it, everything, got ready for the event. Just as soon as God told him it was going to happen, he made everything ready. And then, waiting twenty-five years, just kept waiting until finally it happened, growing stronger all the time. When God speaks, it's got to come to pass.

L-16 So Elisha told her she was going to have a baby. And just exactly the time that Elisha said it would take place, it took place. 'Cause he was a prophet. He was under the anointing of--of the Holy Spirit, and it had to come to pass.
So the little boy got about twelve years old, and Elisha would come by, and lay on the bed, and go on out into Mount Carmel where he had a cave up there, he went to pray in. And one day the little lad was out in the field with his father, with the reapers. Long up in the day around eleven o'clock, something like that... And I believe the little lad had a sun stroke, because he began to holler, "Oh, my head, my head." And that time a day out in the field, probably a little bare-headed boy, running around out there, about twelve years old, behind the reapers, way down in there were deserts like it is in here. Perhaps the little fellow had a sun stroke. So his father had a young man to pick him and take him back to the house. And he sat on his mother's lap until the midday, and than he died.
Now, seemingly it was all over. So the mother picked up the little fellow... Now, notice, the first thing she did with that little boy, she took him right out of her own house, out into Elijah's house, and laid him on the bed, where the prophet had laid. Pretty good wisdom I believe.

L-17 Took him away, shut him off from the unbelief and put him in the chamber where the prophet had been, and closed the door, let nobody in there go to messing around with him, but she put him in the room, and closed the door. And her husband came in, of course, there was a lot of screaming, and crying, and going on. And she said, "All will be well. Now, saddle a mule for me, I'm going to the man of God."
Now, all hopes ain't gone, something in her heart begin to tell her that something could be done. All the herbs, and perhaps, the doctor had been there, done all he could do. Nothing could be done and she'd done all her remedies she knowed. And nothing could be done. The little fellow died.
Now, she thought... Or perhaps, maybe the rest of them thought that, all hopes was gone. But she knew that there was still a God that lived and reigned. Oh, my. If we could only get that.
Now, something down in her heart begin to beat. "I would like to find the man of God. I'd like to go to church again." Usually that's about what hits a person's heart when trouble hits the home. "I'd like to see the man of God again."


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