<TITLE>05. Par -</TITLE>L-7-3 And many people praying for a revival, I wonder if there sometimes (if those who are praying), if their own prayers don't stop up the wells of blessings. When they're cowardly and afraid to trust God, afraid to take Him at His Word, afraid to believe that He still lives today, when His Bible plainly says that He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

L-7-4 God doesn't call, very seldom, the smart man, the educated, the intellectual. They play their part, and they're great men, but usually, when God wants the job done, He gets somebody who hardly knows his abc's. Search the Scriptures; look through the histories. Men that amounted to something with God were not men who had great educations, but men who had no education, only a desire in their heart to serve God. He got the plowman, the shepherd, the fisherman, the hunter, those who lived in nature, in that stillness and quietness of nature. There God could speak to them, and that's who He called.

L-7-5 And if they find that when He gives a call to a great intellectual, that person finally goes back to his intellectual conceptions, and after while when it comes to working the phenomenal, he's too mixed up with the peoples of the world to accept such. Therefore, he finally results to a denomination, and goes on off, and makes a minister. And that's all right. And I have nothing against that person that would do that. But when God gets ready to do something in the supernatural realms, He usually gets a man that He can put His trust in, and anoints him, and sends him out, and he's fearless at the job.
That's the kind of men we need today--not polished scholars, but men who know God in the power of His resurrection.

L-8-2 For instance, there was a man in the Bible by the name of Moses who had got all of his training. He knowed all of the theology. He knew everything that he should know. He... If he'd have need any education, he could teach the masters in Israel or in Egypt. He didn't need one thing. And the Bible tells us that he was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. Why, he could teach their scholars. He could teach their scientists things. He was keyed to the very point when it come to intellectual, but yet it taken God forty years to beat all that out of him out there in the sand. And when he got all of his intellectual conceptions of God beat out of him out there in the sands, the metal was ready to be molded over.
That's the way God takes His man and beats out all of their fears and all of their intellectuals, and then the great Master Potter puts them on the wheel and begins to mold them over again, workmen worthy. It's God's man. Who could train a man more than God Himself? Watch the way He trains them.

L-8-4 We would think again of another by the name of David. God was training David when he was just a little boy. The prophet Samuel come up and poured oil on his head and anointed him, because God was going to train David to be a mighty warrior; and look at the training He gave him.
I was reading some time ago (up here at Green's Mill where I usually go to pray) where God said to David, "I've took you from the sheepcote, from following those few sheep of your father's out there, and I've made you a great name like great men of the earth." And I think of the rugged training He did to David. Never so much as schooled him in some school, but He schooled him in His own school.


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