<TITLE>12. Par 49-53</TITLE>L-49 Then his poor old daddy, honest as he could be, in all of his dealings as a farmer, and so forth... And when his daddy come down, he wanted me to go fishing with him. And we went down the--to the lake.
On the road down a vision came that morning. And He said, "Every lake that you cross and every stream of water will be muddy, no fishing. But when you get down to the Wolf Creek there, to the--of Dale Hollow," said, "that's going to be pretty and blue. And you have never caught a catfish in that water, but you're going to catch a whole string of them." And said, "They're going to catch one or two little ones, and then you're going to catch a big fish with a scale fish. It'll be big of a specie." I turned around and quoted it to them. I watched the old man's eyes as he looked over towards his boys.

L-50 When we went down there and got in the water, every lake was muddy going down. When we got there it was just as blue it would hurt your eyes nearly. And we fished and we couldn't catch a bass, crappie, or anything. And all of the sudden I started catching cat fish, and caught a whole string of them, some of them five pounds a piece, and sometimes two on one line, with holding line. We fished and got a string of fish.
And the next morning, I went back fishing, I caught one great big bluegill, or--or what we call the red belly sun fish, the biggest I ever seen. Then when the men come to me, I said, "Now, sir, the Bible said, 'If there be one among you spiritual or the prophet, and if what he said comes to pass, then hear him, if it doesn't...'" And I took four outstanding prophecies of Jehovah Witness, and showed him that none of had come to pass. Every one of them failed. I said, "Now, what about the fish?"

L-51 And God showed that vision to change that man and turn him around, for that one man, where there was thousands laying suffering. It's the sovereignty of Almighty God to let you know that He declares His doings by His work. And His character is declared by the same.
Look at the pool of Bethesda; you say, "That don't sound like God doing that." Look at the crippled, lame, halt, blind, withered waiting, and here come Jesus right through there, garments full of virtue, and walked to a man, and went to a man who could walk, do anything he wanted to, but had some kind of retarded disease, and healed him and left the rest of them standing there. See, His character, He wanted to show His powers. He wanted to do something, yeah... The world stand still to notice it.

L-52 Now, notice, day before yesterday when we went back... I come back to the Indianapolis meeting, and I thought I'd have to stay just a little while away from the people till I got kinda rested up, 'cause I'd have twenty or thirty a day on private interviews, and those visions coming. I was just about dead when I got home. No one knows what I go through on that. No one, there's no way to explain it.
But then, Brother Wood, and his brother, and I, went run off down to the place and to fish again for a day and night. And that afternoon, setting back there, Brother Wood begin to speak about an old woman that used to belong to the Anderson Church of God up here, when they were in their bloom, when how good. Said, how she used to take them little Jehovah Witness boys and love them.

L-53 And Brother Wood said to his brother, Lyle. He said, "Lyle, would it not be great now, if we would go find that old sister and let her know that we're saved?"
Now, that word found favor with God. After he'd been talking about God for a long time, but that word found favor. Those two Jehovah Witness boys, both of them aged men, wanted to find an old woman and tell her that they were saved: two brothers. When they said that, the Spirit of God in His sovereignty fell on me, setting there in that boat. Oh, how I wished I could've had voice some way that I could sink that into the people's heart.


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