<TITLE>13. Par 52-56</TITLE>L-52 You know the best thing is to live a sermon instead of preach one, you know that. You're written epistles. And you can't do it in yourself; you can impersonate it for a little while, but your sins will find you out. You better just consecrate yourself to God and get on the inside, shut the doors behind you and burn every barrier there is behind you, and every bridge, and launch out. Amen. I know it's the truth; I know it'll work. If it hadn't been for that, I don't know what would become of me. That's right.
But it--it ain't the people you that you look at then, it's Christ.

L-53 Notice, in this same place there, they brought Aaron's rod. And they laid it in there one night. And think, that same rod, what did it do? It budded; it blossomed and yielded almonds the same night. What was it? It must have been an almond tree, staff then or rod, must have come off of an almond tree.
And there's a many almond tree, staff, right here in Minneapolis tonight. But the only thing it is, you're--as long as you're outside of this hidden life, you'll never be able to be refreshed and bring forth the fruits that God intended you to do, until you come into the Presence of God.

L-54 Look at it, the budding. The first thing we find out... What makes trees bud? It's a refreshment. What makes the refreshing? Early of a morning, you go out of a early morning and you find out, after the night everything gets still, and then the dew falls, and it brings a--a refreshening.
The trouble of it is today, the people don't have time to get before God and get still. They got so many things to do. They belong to this; they got to do this; they got to have this; they got to go there. You--you don't have time. The devil's just took up all your time. You don't have time to get still before God, get quiet.
Remember after all... You're a nature, and after all nature gets quiet and still, then the dew begins to fall, that refreshes and brings forth life. And you are a nature yourself. And when you get quiet and still before God, then the dew of heaven begins to fall and begins to refresh.

L-55 Did you ever go out of a morning, after the night has past, early of a morning? Also it blossoms to give fragrance. And did you ever go early of a morning to the define the fragrance? You find out that early of a morning when you get out, the dew is hanging low, the trees are budding, the blossoms are coming up, and the perfume is... Go along the road and smell the honeysuckles, into the rose garden early of a morning. That's why, it's been quiet, nature has, through the night. It got quiet and God bathed it with refreshing.
That's what you need to do, is get away and get quiet before God, so He can bathe you with the refreshment from heaven. Amen. Get alone to yourself; close the doors, pull them together, and say, "Now Lord, here I am in Your Presence."

L-56 Notice, also after it was refreshed, after it yielded, these blossoms had also yielded fruit. There's many people who's been Christians for years and never won another soul to Christ. They've never give a public testimony of their salvation in church or before people, or on the streets; they never testified to a sinner, woman or man in their work or somewhere. They can't yield fruit, why? They can't get quiet long enough. You got so many things to do.


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