<TITLE>18. Par 61-62</TITLE>L-61 I just talked a long time to you. I'm nervous. Certainly. Make you nervous too, stand in this just for about five minutes and watch what happens. One thing, one vision will take more out of you than ten hours of constant preaching. You know the Scripture teaches that. Spiritual men are always considered neurotics, did you know that? How about the American song writer Steven Foster? He wrote the best folk songs we ever had: "Old Black Joe" and a "Swanee River." What would he do when the inspiration struck him? He'd get in that inspiration; when he'd come out of it, he'd--he'd get drunk. And finally he called his servant, and took a razor and committed suicide.
Look at William Cowper. I stood by his grave with Brother Lindsay, in London, England, not long ago. I wept at his grave. He wrote that famous song, "There is a Fountain Filled With Blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins; when sinner's plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains." What was he thought of in England? A neurotic. As soon as he come out of that inspiration, he tried to commit suicide in the river. That's right.

L-62 Look at Jonah, the prophet, after being in the whale's belly for three days. And when the Spirit left him, and he was setting up on the mountain, he prayed for God to take his life.
How about Elijah, when the Spirit was on him and the visions, he'd call--said, "He done all this at Your command," and called fire out of heaven, and rain out of the heaven, and then run out in the wilderness, and was forty days--didn't even know where he was at, wandering around in the wilderness. And God found him pulled back in a cave. See? God always comes.
He keeps His Word. But many times, it's a little different from what the teachers teach it. See? It was that way when He come the first time. It is always.


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