<TITLE>08. Par 34-39</TITLE>L-34 See, we got too many things ahead of the Lord. You can't have the prayer meeting because Mr. Godfrey's on tonight. You can't have the prayer meeting because "We Love Sucy" is on tonight, or some kind of a foolish nonsense like that, that takes up the time. And we don't have time to hear the voice of the Lord.
And those who do claim to be Christians, just kneel down of the little prayer like this, kinda homemade. "Lord bless me, and my family, and take care of us. Good night." And the next morning rise and say, "Just guide us through the day. Good day."... We should wait on the Lord.
You see, we do all the talking. We don't give Him a chance to talk back to us. That if we would pray and pray until our soul comes into the Presence of God, and then just relax and listen to His voice...

L-35 But there's so many voices today that takes the voice of the Lord away from us. There's the voice of pleasure. So many people are listening to that, where they can go and have a good time. And many of them are professing to be Christians. Some kind of an old rock-and-roll coming up, they just can't listen to what God... They--they say, "Well, I'm a Christian, I read a verse in the Bible today, yeah, 'Jesus wept.'" That's it, go ahead.
But then, to really get down and pray, they got to many other things to do. There's so many voices in the world, so many things to attract our attention from God.

L-36 And yesterday when the wife and I had run over to the super market to get some groceries... And I was hurrying, because I was late with appointments, and things, and rushing real quick, and... There was a little boy standing there half asleep. And a little old girl come along there with some little trousers on that belonged to some man. They had to, 'cause they were made for men. And the Bible says, "It's an abomination in the sight of God for a woman to wear it." And with a lot of this here lipstick on and her eyes about half asleep, she said, "Where is the so-and-so?" to that little boy.
He said, "How do you expect me to know?"
She said, "You remember, I never got in until six o'clock this morning." And she wasn't over twelve years old.

L-37 Now, Jesus at twelve, which was our example, said, "Don't you know I should be about My Father's business?"
No wonder the voice of God is a rare thing today. It's smothered out by so many different voices, so many things that dim and take away. It's got to a place until it dulls our senses, until we can't hear the Voice of God. Our senses, of where we ought to shake ourself and realize that you are men and women, and you are the creation of God, and you were put here to serve Him, but Satan's voice and false prophets... "Oh, be modern."

L-38 As I was speaking a few days ago, I was coming to church, and I turned my radio on, and I heard a program out of Louisville that said that they were teaching their children in churches to just drink moderately, making them modern, so that they won't go to the excess.
Oh, they need to teach them Christ, not drinking. And that will wreck, and ruin, and damn any home. How could the voice of God speak among a family that's half soused with whiskey and their minds paralyzed with smoking, and drinking, and all night long carousing.

L-39 Men that waits upon God comes into His Presence. And to come into the Presence of God is just like going out early of a morning when the dew and the honeysuckles are all sweet. When you come into the Presence of a person like that, you know they have been with God.


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