<TITLE>23. Par 78-81</TITLE>L-78 So about that time, I watched what he was looking at. There'd a big old eagle forced down, one of the big old brown eagles we have there in the west. And he'd been forced down under this, the winds had blowed him in there. And that's what the squirrel was barking at. He jumped up on there. And I'd just been weeping. I looked over and seen that rainbow, and I said, "O God, listen at my heart pound when I hear that wolf holler yonder. There's something about it I love." I said, "Looky there at the rainbow. God, it's Your covenant. Right. You'll never destroy the world with water, but it'll be fire next time."
Oh, I could see Jesus standing in that Revelations 1, where He was look upon Him as jasper and sardius stone: Alpha, Omega, the Beginning and the Ending; Reuben, and the younger and the older. And all the rainbow around Him, the covenant of His Blood that He would protect and keep that which God had committed to Him... I could see Him there, and my heart pounding. I--they thought they had the Salvation Army up there. I set my gun down, the side of the tree, I run around and around the tree, screaming top of my voice to give vent to my feeling, oh, just as loud as I could scream. I didn't care who heard me. Wasn't nobody to hear me anyhow. I--I was just praising God. If they'd seen me up there, I guess, they'd have thought I had been out of the insane institution. I didn't care what they thought, who thought it. How my soul was bubbling for the glory of God.

L-79 I felt like David did when he seen the ark coming and begin to dance before the Lord. And his little old backslidden wife stood up there said, "You embarrass me."
I said, "You...?... going to like that, watch this." And down he went, and around, and around, and around he went again. His wife thought he was crazy, like the world does today.
But God said, "David, you're a man after My own heart." Don't care what the world says, what God thinks." Quickly.
I watched a little while, and watched that pine squirrel chatter at the old eagle. I thought, "God, why did You interpret this great program, that I'm listening to You here, watching You."

L-80 After while, I noticed that eagle. "Why aren't you scared?" I said, "I could grab my rifle and shoot you." Those great big velvet eyes look at me. He wasn't scared of me. He watched that squirrel, and then watched me, watch the squirrel and then watched me. And I thought, "Why are you? What you setting there, so that... You're brave that's what it is. That's what God wants me to see."

L-81 You can see God anywhere, if you just look for Him. Get Him in here, and you can see Him. Get Him in here. You won't reason it out, "Well, I wonder what's this." See? In here God will declare Himself.
So he looked. And as I watched that old eagle watching me. And after while I said, "No wonder he's--he's not afraid."
That's the trouble with Christians today. You're afraid to testify at your work. You're afraid to tell the man that's cursing, taking God's Name in vain, about Jesus Christ. You're afraid to stand up and say, "God, healed me by His power." God, don't want cowards. Take the wishbone out and put a backbone in you.
Buddy Robinson said, "Lord, give me the backbone like a saw log. Let me fight the devil as long as I got a tooth in my mouth, and gum him till I die." That's right. That's what we need: plenty of knowledge in the gable end of my soul. That's what you need.


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