<TITLE>11. Par 43-45</TITLE>L-43 I hate to leave you. God bless you, Carolina, everywhere. I'll just tell you good-bye now, 'cause if--if the Lord Jesus does come in His anointing power, I--I don't know when they take me. The only way I know Brother Wood, or some of them comes up here goes to patting me on the side. I know to quit praying right then. See?
I don't want to go. When I'm up there, I feel like I'm a giant. When I'm down here, I'm all right. But just come out of there one time.
How many every knowed that poets and prophets always considered a little crazy or something, neurotics? Sure. How many ever heard of Stephen Foster? You ought to. Wrote America's best folk songs. "Old Black Joe," "Old Folks at Home," and "Swanee River," "Old Kentucky Home." Do you know every time he'd ever get inspiration and write them old songs, then he'd get on a drunk? You know, finally after he wrote a famous song, he called a servant, took a razor and committed suicide?

L-44 How many ever heard of William Cowper? Let's see your hands. Wrote how many ever heard of this songs, "There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, when sinners plunge beneath the flood lose all their guilty stains?" William Cowper wrote that.
I stood by his grave not long ago, two or three years ago in London, England. I had to shed a tear. He was considered a little crazy. You know after he wrote that song... Did you ever get the history of it? He got in a cab and tried to find the Seine River to commit suicide. He come out of inspiration. See? He didn't know where he was at.

L-45 Look at Jonah, the Prophet. After God keeping him alive three days in the belly of the whale, come out and give his prophecy in such a way that a city the size of St. Louis, Missouri, repented, put sackcloth on their animals. And then went upon a hill after the inspiration left him... A little worm come out and cut a gourd tree down, and he prayed God to take his life (See?), just a neurotic like.
Look at Elijah who called for no rain to come, and it didn't come for three years and six months. Then called rain out of the heavens, and then called fire out of the heavens the same day. And when the Holy Spirit left him, and the vision was completed, the Lord fed him some cakes, put him to sleep, woke him up about an hour or two and fed again, and he was so unconscious till he wandered out in the wilderness for forty days and nights. And when God found him... How many knows where He found him? Pulled back in a little cave. Is that right? Didn't know where he was at, wandering around. See?
What does it speak of? There's a land beyond the river. That's right. No need to try to explain it. You can't. If prophets and so forth couldn't explain it, how could we? It's just true. That's all.


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