<TITLE>16. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 That's what the Shunammite woman was going by. It was unreasonable to take a dead baby to that preacher's bed. But inspiration spoke. And if inspiration'd speak to you and say that you've been playing church, if inspiration tells you tonight it's time to get rid of your dirty habits, listen to inspiration. It's the Holy Spirit speaking and making a way. Don't never turn it down, if it's anything... Unless it's contrary to God's Word. And anything that you do clean and righteous is--is in accordance with God's Word. It's in accord. Amen.
No matter what the people think, what others say, it's the inspiration leading you, if it's according to the Word. And if it's according to the Word then the inspiration is a leading you.

L-55 And she takes the baby; she goes around and she lays it on her bed--on his bed. What took place? Her husband came in. They were weeping and screaming and going on; the baby was dead. But the woman... Amen. I love this. Her faith was in action. She's just as cool as she could be. Something had struck her in that crucial moment. Something had taken a hold. And if something would take a hold in the time of death in the family, what more ought to take hold tonight when the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is at hand?
Something struck her: inspiration. She walked around; she took the little fellow, laid him on the prophet's bed. And her husband said, "Oh, dear, oh, dear, what will we do?"
She said, "All is well, husband." Amen. Her faith sprung her to action. And no matter how much, sister, you in the wheelchair, believe that God is a Healer, if your faith can't go to action, you'll always be in the wheelchair. But when your faith can take action to a place that down in your soul that says so, not reasoning, but something in here says so, then, brother, something takes place. You begin moving. 'Cause it's impossible for it not to be. That's true.

L-56 Then notice what taken place. She said, "Saddle me a mule (Amen.), and ride towards Mount Carmel just as hard as you can go." I like that. Said, "Saddle an ass and go forward; don't you even slack up lest I bid you to." I like that. She was on her road to meet the man of God. She had a need, and she knew that Elijah was God's representative. She didn't know Elijah was going to give the baby back his life. But she knew that Elijah was supremely recognized and a vindicated, that it was God's servant.
And tonight the Holy Ghost is the vindication that He's here, that His power is with the believer. And if we could only recognize that by inspiration that leads us to the--make the--in the crucial moment to make our decision according to the Word of God, not according to what the neighbors is going think or according to what somebody else is going to say, or what my pastor will say, or my members will say, what my neighbors will say, but what God is leading you to.

L-57 Then she made the decision. She's... The... They got on the mule and away they went. She thought, "If I can get to that man of God, I'll find out why." And when she come... God don't always tell His prophets everything that's going to happen. He just tells them as He--He wants to. God's sovereign.
You'll never be able to see men going around the world just healing people at random and everything. I've tried to knock that down as hard as I could in my life. That's the reason you watch in the campaigns. I watch solemnly everything to see first the vision, what God will say do. For you might stomp and kick and anoint and everything else, and if the devil has a right in there, anything in your heart's unconfessed, or any unbelief, or any doubting, anything in there, anything that you've refused to do or not, the devil will lay right there, 'cause he has a right to. That's right. Jesus never healed at random. He said, "I do nothing except the Father shows Me first." You'll never be on the plane with Jesus.


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