<TITLE>07. Par 29-33</TITLE>L-29 So Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and wept bitterly. Listen to his prayer. "Lord, I beseech Thee to consider me; I've walked before You with a perfect heart." That's the way to pray. "I've walked before You with a perfect heart." God spared him. How embarrassed that prophet was to go back, taken back all he said. He went back and said, "God's heard your prayer."
Now, listen, who is the biggest man in the nation? The king. Well, why didn't He speak to the king then if the king was speaking face-to-face with Jehovah? The conversation was between the king, or the king was speaking to Jehovah. Why didn't Jehovah speak right back to the king? 'Cause he's the highest man in the nation, and the king of the greatest nation in the world. And there the greatest King of heaven, the King of kings was speaking back to the king, or the king of the earth was talking to the King of heaven. And then He goes back and sends His prophet back around. Strange, isn't it? See?

L-30 I... You probably won't forgive me for holding you like this...?... Just--just showing you something, friends. Excuse me for saying that: explain something to you. God has certain ways to work. How many understands that say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. God has certain ways to work. And you got to work according to His way of working. See? You can't go in your way and your thoughts, and--and you got to go His way.

L-31 Now, listen at this, let me give you a little illustration. Here's a--a crop over on this hill, and it's just burning up for water. Can you hear me? A crop on this hill a burning up for water, and over on this hill (you own both hills), and over here's a artesian well just spurting up water and going to waste. Now, what if you stand out there and say, "I want this water to come over on my crops. Water, I command you to go over there on my crops. Water, I command you to go over there on my crops." It'll never go over. Certainly not.

L-32 But there is a law of gravitation. Now, you can get that water over here if you'll work it the right way. If you'll work according to the laws of gravitation you can bring that water round that mountain and throw it right on this side and irrigate that whole crop. Is that right? You stand out there screaming, "Water, come over here, water, come over here," it won't do it. But if you work according to the laws of gravitation, you get your water over there. But you've got to work according to the laws of gravitation.
Now, Benjamin Franklin once said that there's enough electricity in a room to blow it up, if the--the heat and so forth was separated. And the heat from the cold, making the lightning, or the electric...

L-33 Now, what if you stood out in the middle of one of these great big woods some night out here on the mountain, and you were saying, "Oh, electricity, I'm lost out here; I can't see a thing; they're--you're here electricity; I know you're here. So all you electricity, come on, and light up the way, and make me a way out."
The electricity's there; that's true. But you don't get it that way. You have to work according to the laws of electricity. Is that right? If that electricity is brought down, run through a generator out to a light, it'll light the way to show you out. But you got to work according to the laws of electricity.


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