<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 And don't never be afraid to ask big things. God wants you to ask big things. He don't want you to be little petty and juvenile. He wants you to ask big things that your joys may be full.
Could you imagine a little fish about that big, way out yonder in the Atlantic Ocean, say, "I better drink just a little bit of this water, I might run out." Nonsense.
Could you imagine a little mouse about that big down there in the great garners of Egypt, saying, "I just better eat two grains a day, 'cause I might run out before summertime again." Well, that's nonsense. If they had ten hundred thousand rats that size, they'd never eat it up. And they had billions times billions of tons of them fish, they'd never drink the water up. And how many times could we multiply; you could never exhaust God in His powers and His mercies to His children. He's the inexhaustible Fountain of Life. Just drink, and drink, and drink, and drink.

L-20 I was game warden in the state of Indiana for seven years. I love outdoors. There's where I first met God, in nature. And I remember I used to come to an old spring. And that was the happiest spring I ever seen. It was always a bubbling, jumping. I'd go by, and maybe I'd be all down, tired, and walk down, set down, drink. Look at it, and I thought, "What makes you happy? What you bubbling so?" I thought, "I wished I could be happy like that, just bubble, bubble, bubble, day and night."

L-21 I got to talking to it one day. You know, you have to talk to nature. You have to talk to God. When Moses took off his shoes and walked up to the tree, the burning bush, he set down and talked to it. That's the only way you're going to do. Now, He didn't say, "I'm going to pick off some of the leaves and run down and ask Doctor Jones why these don't burn. I'm going to the laboratory and have a--an analysis made and find out what kind of chemicals this tree's been sprayed with, the reason these limbs don't burn." She'd a never talked back to Him. But he set down and talked to it. Just talk to God like that one time. Lay your pro--your problem out before Him in the face of His Word.

L-22 I said to that spring; I said, "Maybe you're so happy because once in a while an animal comes by and drinks out of you."
Said, "No."
"Maybe once in a while a deer drinks from you."
"Nope, that ain't what makes me jump and bubble."
I said, "Well, maybe it's because I drink from you."
"Nope, that ain't why."
I say, "Well, what makes you bubble?"
He said, "You understand?" If he could've talked, he'd say, "You understand, it's not me bubbling; it's something behind me pushing me and making me bubble."
That's the way it is by the Holy Spirit. There's something bubbling in you, pushing you up to see, to make you climb to reach the...?... Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubbles a everlasting bubbling up. You see it? It's Christ in you. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." The Holy Spirit feasts on the Word.


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