<TITLE>16. Par 52-55</TITLE>L-52 Now, I can see her husband put that little side saddle on. And he helped her as she put her little teeny foot up in there, and lifted her up. She set on the little donkey and pulled a little shawl across her face, kissed him good-bye, and brushed his tear back, said, "Now, dad, don't you cry. Don't you cry."
"Mother, what's the matter?"
"Don't you cry. Don't you cry."
"Well, what... How you taking it so lightly?"
"Dear, my heart feels the same as yours, except there's something happened. There's something in me tells me I must see the man of God right away." And she said to the servant (they led the mules, of course), said, "Now, you run along yourself and don't you even stop or check up 'less I tell you to."
On up she went. I can see her going on now, just a trotting on this little mule, a singing the praises of God. Oh, my.

L-53 And old Elijah set back there, been reading a scroll down, you know; all had taken place, setting back there. Gehazi setting at the door nodding... I can see Elijah rub his eyes and look out. He said, "Gehazi."
"Yes, master." He jumps up.
Said, "Here comes that Shunammite. Go, see what she wants. Ask her if everything's well with her, and her husband, her child."
So Gehazi went out a little piece, said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the child?"
What you going to say, sister? What you going to say? Well now, if I am counting on intellects, I'd say, "O merciful God, oh, my baby's gone." But there's something down in me that says, "Say something different."

L-54 She said, "All is well. (Amen. Amen.) Everything's all right." Oh, my. If that isn't casting down reasonings, that's making the world what calls ridiculous. That's what science would say was crazy. But she got what she asked for, so what difference does it make? She said, "Everything's all right. Everything's just perfectly all right."
So she run up to him, jumped off the little side saddle. And the little fellow turned her little donkey around to start back. And Elijah said, "Now, her heart's all broke about something 'cause I can see that tear in her eye. But, you know, God tells me a whole lot of things, but He don't tell me everything." God don't tell His prophets everything. No, no, just as He will. Now, he said, "Now, her heart's broke, and she's all upset about something. But I--I don't know what it is."

L-55 And she begin to reveal it to him and to tell him what had happened. Well, Elijah said, "Now, wait a minute. No vision, what am I going to do. I haven't seen nothing. I don't know what to say. But I know one thing: There's a God of heaven that lives. That's one thing. And I know that when I had the anointing on me a many time, when I'd walk, this old stick, coming on up through that desert, the anointing was on me. So, Gehazi, you're my servant. I want you to gird up your loins right quick, put on the whole armor. I want you to take this stick that I've been walking on; it's blessed. And I want you to go lay it on the child. And if anybody tries to stop you, don't pay no attention to them. If..."
That's what's the trouble today with us preachers. That's what's the trouble with us church members. God's give us a mission to carry to the lost and dying, for the resurrection to Everlasting Life, and we've stopped and had socials, and chats, and parties, and tea parties, and suppers, and stitch-and-sew, and so-and-so, and everything else. No wonder we can't never get to the dead.
Said, "Don't you say anything but take this message."


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