<TITLE>11. Par 38-40</TITLE>L-38 Well, Elijah come by one day, and I can imagine seeing how she fixed it up. Could you imagine? That little woman, like a little Dorcas or something, she goes up there, and I can see her just polish the floors with the old scrub brush, you know, till the pine boards just shined. And I can see her fix this little stool here and put a little pad on it.
She said, "He will be so tired, this servant of God, when he comes by. And I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to make the bed just as soft with feathers as I can, and make it just as nice, and put a nice straw tick beneath it or something. And I'm going to have it just as nice as it can be for this servant of God. Keep... I'm going to come up every day. I'm going shine up the window, and what I'm going to do. And I'll bring the little bouquet of flowers every day and set it on there, where if he comes by. And I'll put a little welcome mat at the door. And I'm going to tack a little--a little speech on the side of the door, and say, 'Dear humble servant of God, this is my gratitude towards God. I give this in God's Name to you.'"

L-39 Oh, and one day Elijah come by. I'd imagine the flower in the room was blooming so pretty. She'd go out early of a morning and pick them, you know. The early the morning, the dew settles down. There's something about the quietness of a night, alone, the--the dew falls and it freshens.
Oh, if we would only get quiet and alone with God (See?), how the dew would strengthen us, take the wilt out of us and make us fresh. Did you ever go into a rose garden early of a morning? Did you ever go into a honeysuckle bed early of a morning? And the whole air is just bathed with fragrance. Oh, how I love that.
Down in my part of the country in Indiana, I'd get up early and turn on the switch key and get out somewhere where the locust, or the honeysuckles, when they're blooming. And I just set by the side of the road and just... Oh, how I just love to smell it, and to look at it, and see those little honeysuckles standing up.
I said, "O God, in the run of the day and in the run of the days, if I get all wilty and indifferent, let me lay in Your Presence in the quietness, alone with You. Then I come out fresh again." Oh, my. That's what God wants to do. With a fragrance of prayer all over us, covered by the Blood of the Lord Jesus. How fresh we are before the Angels then. How fresh we are in the Presence of God.

L-40 I can see her pick a nice bouquet this morning of honeysuckles and stick it on the room. She said, "Oh, I trust that the man of God may be by today." She cleans up his little place and shuts the door and pins it on.
And after a while a weary, tired prophet comes up the road, his feet sore, dragging a little staff along, a little cruse of oil by his side. Well, I can hear him say, "Gehazi, you know, son, our Shunammite friends there, they built a little room out there. I wonder if they had somebody come to stay with them? I just wonder why that room's built?"
Gehazi said, "Say, master, there's a little note on the door. Oh, maybe--maybe someone else owns it. Let's go see."
And Elijah goes over and reads, "Dear servant of God, we thought it good in the sight of God to do this in the Name of God for you. And we hope that you enjoy your stay each time. If we can be of any further service or blessing and help to you, just let us know. We are at your service."
And when he reads that, I can see a tear trickle down old Gehazi's cheek like that. "Oh, isn't it wonderful."


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