<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 We pray tonight that as our--we assemble ourselves together here in this church, that You'll bless every soul that's in Divine Presence; we don't know what they come for, Lord. Many of them maybe with burdens on their heart, may be many sinful and out of the will of God, maybe many sick and need Your healing. Many are in trouble, domestic trouble, wives, husbands, little children. God, whatever it is, we've come to speak of You, and we pray that You'll meet everything we have need of tonight, that when these doors be open at the end of the service and the people walk out to go to their different places, may they say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us." Grant it, Lord. Speak tonight.
Bless the pastor here, our beloved brother, Your servant, Brother Rogers, the deacons, the--the workers, the laity, and every visiting person from other churches. We pray this blessing in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.

L-14 Tonight we'll... For our Scripture reading we'll turn over into the Old Testament and read just a verse of Scripture for a way of text if we would call it that.
Coming down last evening there were... It... Friday is always ministers day at the parsonage there, when we can be have the ministers come, and oh, there were so crowded yesterday knowing that the great vision that just happened, and we're fixing to plunge out into the greatest thing I've ever knowed of in my life. And some of them stayed till almost one this morning and then I had to get up early. And coming down here then today, why, I got into the room and just closed the door and someone knocked and it was Brother Vivert. And time he left we had to rush down to get a sandwich, and then, I said, "Brother Wood, go up and tell me when it's time to come back."
I took off my coat, hadn't even changed my clothes yet, took off my coat and set down, pulled open the Bible leaves, and somebody knocked at the door. And it was Brother Wood said it was time to go on up to the church. So here I am. So you pray for me tonight as I speak to you.

L-15 II Kings the 4th chapter and the 30th verse we'll read just for a little text, and maybe God will reveal a context for us as we study His Word.
And the mother of the child said un--said, As the Lord liveth, and... thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. (Think of it) And he arose, and followed her.
May the Lord add His blessings to this reading. Our minds are brought back when we read from the Old Testament, because the Old Testament has always been one of my favorite books to speak from, because it's a type of the New Testament. And then if you can bring the old and new together you... Even the children can get a--a mental conception of what the--God's will is and how that God works.

L-16 And now, as we're thinking tonight, this was the prophet Elisha. A few nights ago I was just speaking on it, and I come in my mind when we was coming in a few--just a little bit ago. I was asking my little girl, little Rebekah, eight years old; I said, "Honey, what was the difference between Elijah and Elisha?"
And she said, "Well, daddy, Elijah was the oldest."
I said, "That's right." And I said, "If you seen them walking down a road, what would be the difference if you looked at them, besides their age?"
And she said, "Well, I know the young prophet was bald-headed, which the children got... He cursed the children for calling him bald-headed. And the old prophet," said, "he would be a older man."
I said, "Now, there's something else about Elijah." And so he was a hairy man. And he had about his loins, a--a piece of leather wrapped around him. The Bible said that he was a hairy man, and law--leather over his loins. And the Spirit that was upon Elijah came to Elisha in a double portion, and then came again from those great miracle working men, where it worked the first time in miracles and signs it worked a second time in a double portion of miracles and signs, and then came on another man and he done no miracles at all."


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