<TITLE>05. Par 18-22</TITLE>L-18 Now, going to get this loaf of bread, I might have to go over briar patches, and down over bridges, and cross streams, and up the hill, but all the time I'm going, I'll be shouting with all my heart, holding up my twenty-five cents, because I'm on my road for the bread.
And if Christ reveals to me, tonight, that I am healed, I can rejoice just as much as I could jump up-and-down on the floor. No matter whether I'm still crippled, or whether I'm still sick, my head still hurts, or what about it, I'm just as happy, because I'm on my road with the purchase power. That's faith. Jesus said, "Have faith in God." Notice how vital.
But now, you say, "My faith is little, and I'm sure God will not notice my faith; it's too small."
He said, "If you have the faith the size of a mustard seed," which is the smallest of all the seeds...

L-19 But being a rancher, myself, and studying agriculture, mustard seed is one seed that won't mix with no other seed. It's all mustard, and it's going to remain mustard.
And you might not have faith enough to have a miracle performed on you, and if you just got mustard seed faith, stay with it. It'll lead you to the Light, and it won't mix with nothing else. No matter what anyone says, you still believe it. No matter what your symptoms say, you still believe it, because it's real faith, and won't mix with doubt anywhere--mustard seed faith. And God recognizes that little faith that you got.

L-20 Here not long ago in Canada, the late King George came down the street. And a friend of mine, Mr. Baxter, as he stood on the street and watched the parade... And the schools all turned out, and they give the little children, little flags of Britain to wave at the king as he passed by. And when the king passed by, the little children singing, "God saved the king," and waving their little flags. After the procession was over, the little fellows returned back to their school.
And in one certain school in British Columbia, Vancouver, there was a little girl who did not return. And the teacher was excited, and she ran out into the streets and begin to look for the little girl. Where could she be? And after a while, they found her leaning up against a telegraph pole and was weeping her little heart out. And the teacher picked her up in the arms, and he--she said, "Bless you, honey, why are you weeping?" And the little girl, sobbing so, she couldn't even tell the teacher. Her little heart was broke. And the teacher said, "Did not you see the king?"
She said, "Yes, I saw the king."
"Did you wave your flag?"
"Yes, I waved the flag."
"And did you sing, "God Save the King?"
She said, "I joined with the rest of them, singing, "God Save the King."
"And the king passed this way?"
"Yes."
"And you saw him?"
"Yes."
"Well, why are you crying?"
She said, "Teacher, the reason I'm weeping, I saw the king, but I was too little. He didn't see me."

L-21 That's not so with Jesus. No matter how little you are, or little your faith is, just wave it; He will see it, just as well as He see the others' faith. Oh, that makes Him so lovable, so real. No matter how small, whatever you offer Him, He's ready to receive it.
And then another thing, faith works much by experience. Or may I change that, and say it this way, "Experience companies faith." Usually if you've had an experience, it will be a great help to your faith.

L-22 One time when Israel had been called out to battle, and the--against the Philistines, and the armies had gathered with a valley between them... And the Philistine, like the modern world, when they think they've got something on you, they love to "blow" about it, as we call it in the south. Like the... It's been expressing kindly, pop off steam about it: "The days of miracles is passed." "There's no such a thing as Divine healing." "We're the greatest church there is in this city; all of our rituals claim those things are gone." But the Bible claims that they are real. So get rid of your ritual.


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