<TITLE>10. Par 37-41</TITLE>L-37 Now, Elisha wanted to find one thing in his mind, in his heart; there was a deep desire. And when the deep goes to coming to the deep, there's bound to be a deep to respond to that call. Before there's a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water for him to swim in first. Before there's a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be a earth first for the tree to grow in.
Before there's a desire in your heart for more of God, there's got to be more of God somewhere to respond to that desire.

L-38 I seen here sometime ago, where a little kid eat the erasers off of pencils, eat the pedal off of a bicycle. And they taken him down to the laboratory to examine him. And find out, at the clinic rather, they found out that his little body needed sulfur. For if there's something in here calling for sulfur, there had to be a sulfur to respond to that call.
Here it is, like this. Before there can be a creation, there had to be a Creator to create that creation. And if you're desiring tonight to be healed of the Lord, there's got to be a fountain open somewhere. That's right. If you desire the baptism of the Holy Ghost in your heart, there's got to be something out there creating that desire. When the deep calleth to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to it.

L-39 And Elisha, oh, he wanted that Spirit. And though, he didn't have any promise of it yet, but he knew that Elijah was wearing a robe. And he knew he had that robe on. And I can see him stand up on the hill where all of the school, the D.D.'s and Ph.D.'s was standing back, seeing what was going to take place...
But Elisha had had that robe on many years before. Now, Elijah had to grow to--Elisha had to grow to fit the robe. Today, we're trying to cut the robe to fit us, and God has to cut us to fit the robe. That's the difference. That--it just got vice versa.
You've got to alter yourself to meet God's Holy Spirit. God won't alter the Spirit to meet your desire. See? But you got to alter yourself. So Elisha had several years of growing into fit the robe. So he thought it would fit him pretty well. He was on his road up the hill.

L-40 And Elijah turned around. The only thing that he wanted to know was, he could ever get that promise. That's all he wanted. And he said, "Now, I'm going to ask you what--tell you what my desire is. I want a double portion of your Spirit to come upon me. What are you going to say?"
Elijah, the anointed prophet, turned around and said, "Thou hast asked a hard thing, but this will be given to you on a condition." So is the Holy Ghost given to you on a condition. See? "On conditions, if you can meet the condition; that is, if you can see me while I go away, you'll have what you ask for." That's all Elisha wanted was the promise.
If he knowed the promise and the conditions of the promise, then he kept his eye right on Elijah. I can imagine somebody saying, "Sir, what are you bothering him for?"
"I ain't got no time to talk to you. I'm looking straight at him."

L-41 And today, the promise... Many of you here is sick. And the promise is to you. If thou canst believe. You've got the promise. The promise is laid down here in the Bible. The promise is yours, but the trouble of it; you let the schools of the prophets and everything else call you from one side to the other one, telling you, discouraging, and telling you, "Days of miracles is past. No such a thing; it's mind reading. It's mental telepathy," and all those things. And you listen to it, and that's the reason you don't receive the promise.
I can imagine Elisha following Elijah with them eyes straight on him. He wasn't going to turn to see, or didn't turn back and say, "Hey, fellows, how do you think I'm doing." If he would, Elijah might've been taken away and he wouldn't have got the promise.


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