<TITLE>13. Par 45-47</TITLE>L-45 The other night the Lord give me a message on resting. The whole Christian principle is based upon rest. I woke up about ten o'clock in the night. I didn't have no audience to preach to, and so I just, well, I went over and woke up my wife and preached to her till one o'clock in the morning about resting: good audience. But I was burning in my heart, resting. I said, "Why are we troubled? 'Let not your hearts be troubled,' He said. We're just resting. 'Come to Me and ye shall find rest. Take My yoke upon you, learn of Me,' finding rest."
Then, while... I said when you once come to Christ, once believe Him, once accept Him, enter into the rest, all the things of the world seems to die away. You've got rest then, rest to your soul. And you enter into that state, and there you are. You're resting then with Christ.

L-46 Now, as Elijah laid upon the bed and was resting, then the Spirit came to him and said, "Go, ask this Shunammite woman what we could do for her for all this kindness."
Now, if you want to find a favor from God, be a favor to God. Come to Him. If you're a sinner and you want to be healed, come first and give your life to Him. Come first if you're just a church member and want to be a Christian, come first to Christ, then you can be a church member after that.
So, see, Elijah found a place to rest, and then the Spirit come on him; He said, "Go, see what we could do for this woman." And he said, "Could I speak to the chief captain, could I speak to the king? In other words, they have me down to see them. I've pray for them or so forth, and I'm acquainted with them. Could I speak to them?"
She said, "No, I just dwell among my people. I'm a Gentile, so not very much to me, but I..."
See now, a lot of people, when you do something for the Lord, you want to, oh, you want to sound a trumpet about it. See? "You know what caused that church to have those nice windows, you know what caused this? You know, I was the one done that."
Keep it to yourself when you do. Jesus said so. "When you do your alms, don't sound a trumpet before men, 'cause you'll be reward of them. But soun... But keep it in your heart, 'He Who seeth in secret what I--will reveal to you, openly reward you."

L-47 Now, watch. I love this. Oh, it's just the plain simple old Gospel, but its story will never wear out. And notice. As she was in this condition and this... No, didn't want it. And Eli... Gehazi came through him and said, "She's without a child, and her husband's old."
So he said, "Go back and tell her that about the time of life this year she'll embrace a--a son in her arms."
Well, I imagine the woman thought, "What about this? The greatest thing could happen to me, that I'll bring life myself, so how could this be? But I won't question." And when it come to pass, when a man is speaking under the anointing of the Holy Ghost it will happen. That was the prophet.
And it happened just the way he said. She brought forth a child, and she was in... She loved it and so forth.


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