<TITLE>12. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 This little woman said, "I believe." In other words, if I could put it like this... This may be drama. "Husband, this is a godly man, and something just tells me that I should do something for him. So I'm going to ask you; you're the husband and the head of the house, so I'm going to ask you if you will permit me to have the carpenters to come and build just a little room there for this holy man. And somehow, husband, I think we ought to buy him a little bed and put it in that room. Wouldn't it be nice now? I just feel led to do so."
Did you ever have that kind of leading? God leading, working in mysterious way, His wonders to perform... What if she'd have failed to do that? What if she had've failed? There'd have been terrible blackness and tragedy. But because she did fa--didn't fail and did as God led her to do, there was blessings and joy. See? Do as the Holy Spirit says. "What the Spirit says do, do quickly," the Bible says. Amen.

L-42 Watch her now. She has the little room built, puts the little things in there, and every time Elijah would come by, he'd have a place to stay. So one day along came Elijah. She was preparing for him, knowing someday that he would come.
And the same thing will take place someday for those (Here it is.), those who are prepared and waiting for the coming of the Lord. He will be along someday, so you better have a little place in here. Make it ready now. For that's the only thing that's a going with Him. This other--our houses, our homes, our land, our popularity, our flesh, our clothes, everything we'll drop and leave here on the earth. But just this that's on the inside will go with Him. Get it ready; prepare it now. Don't be deceived.
I've stood by the side of too many dying people that thought they were right and found out they were wrong at the end. So take a solemn warning before He gets here. Have a place prepared for Him.

L-43 So along came Elijah, and the gate porter perhaps said, as you'd happen to have to know the oriental customs as they do, how the man said, would walk out and say, "Now, thou holy prophet of God, there is a place prepared for you here that my mistress has prepared. And she gives me the right to tell you to go in. You will find everything waiting for you, and I'll fetch a little water. You may refresh yourself. And soon as the baker, or the chef, gets the dinner ready I'll bring you some roast lamb and some--and some bread so you can refresh yourself. It is the kindness of my mistress."
Well, Elijah'd said, "Well, that's wonderful. Tell her I said thank you." She goes... He goes up, looks on the inside, and everything was so polished and clean. That's the way Jesus wants to find you when He comes: polished up, not with a lot of worldly stuff, but with the Gospel that cleanses. Doesn't whitewash but it washes white (Amen.), all cleaned by the purging of the Holy Spirit in your life, separating you from the things of the world. Old things die and pass away, and all things become new. You see it? All right.

L-44 Now, notice. Then Elijah walks in and says, "Looky here, isn't it wonderful? And here is just the nicest little bed fixed up just for me, so I think I'll lie down awhile." Slips off his sandals, as the servant had washed his feet, and he lays down on the bed and says, "Oh, this is wonderful."
I wonder if Christ would come to our hearts tonight, if He'd find it with everything of the world gone, that He might fulfill where it's "Come unto Me all ye that heavy--heavy laden. And take My yoke upon you; learn of Me; I'm meek and lowly: and you'll find rest," resting with Christ, what a wonderful thing.


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