<TITLE>03. Par 8-10</TITLE>L-8 And Mary said, "You know, since I heard the Rabbi say that, 'This great God that brought us here and made us what we are, that He doesn't have to do things for us now like He did then.' I've been thinking for a long time that if this God was as great in the days of our fathers as He was in the days of our grandfathers, then why isn't He just the same great God today?"
That's only good thinking. And she goes back into the house and said, "We'll read some of the Scriptures, just wherever God will lead us." And she picked up the Scroll of Isaiah. And she begin reading, we'd say something like this: Isaiah 9:6:
 Unto us a son is born, unto us a child is given.
And she looks over with her lovely soft eyes and said to her husband-to-be, Joseph, "Who do you think the prophet was speaking of?"
"Why," Joseph said, "Mary, I believe that he was speaking of the Messiah that is to come. And that's why that we keep our blood stream clean and don't mix with other nations, because someday God's going to send the Messiah among us."
She was thinking on this as she went along the side of the street real early as the sun was rising. And--and she was going up to the public well to get her daily supply of water. Usually the women come just a little later to get the water, but Mary, somehow she was led to go early that morning. And as she walked along thinking on these things, she felt a strange feeling around her.

L-9 And you know, it's usually when we're thinking about God and keeping our minds on God, that God comes close to us.
I think that's one of the great troubles of the people of this day. We have too many other things on our mind. Even when we come to a healing service, we seem to think, "Well, I did not get a prayer card tonight." Or perhaps, "I'll not be prayed for." We will never be able to accomplish much as long as we keep those kind of thoughts.
This Angelus Temple is thirsting for a outbreak of the Holy Spirit. Not only that, but the whole United States, speaking of the Christian realm, is waiting for a revival in our time. But we're waiting for something to happen, and I believe that God has let it happen; and we're just so pushing it somewhere else, until it'll pass over us and our time of grace will be gone.
Let's be positive in our thinking. Let's believe that this night now, the revival will break in Angelus Temple tonight. Let's believe that this is the night that God will do the exceedingly abundantly above all that we could do or think He will do it tonight. Don't take no for the answer. It's when we think those things, you create an atmosphere around you.

L-10 And as she was thinking on this, she raised up her eyes and she thought that she saw a light flicker. And the little virgin perhaps rubbed her lovely angel-looking eyes, and she looked around, and, "Well, maybe it was the sun that kindy reflected off of something."
And she goes on and turns the corner, starting up towards the public well. She drops her little head again and pulls her little shawl around her shoulders. And she went on about her way thinking of, "What did this Isaiah 9:6 mean?"
When God puts something upon a person's heart, He's ready to do something. That's the reason that He's ready to give the Angelus Temple a outbreak of the Spirit, because it's on your hearts.
And as she thought on these things, after while she raised her head again; she felt a real strange feeling.
I just love to feel the Presence of the Holy Spirit. It just gives that blessed assurance. You don't always have to see It; It's there anyhow.


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