<TITLE>05. Par 15-20</TITLE>L-15 And I want you to notice another thing about Mary, she did not wait till she was positive. She didn't wait till she felt life, or some physical sign that she was going to have this baby before she said anything about it. She just took... God's Word was good enough for her. And she started rejoicing right away.
Oh, if the Angelus Temple, if you people here tonight, you know it's the will of God to break forth here tonight. You know it's the will of God to send a revival in this tabernacle tonight. God gives the promise. I've been asked to stay over another week, and I've accepted it to stay another week, because that... [The people applaud--Ed.] Thank you. Because that I was...

L-16 Before I left home I stretched the time out a little bit to take a fishing trip where I've always wanted to go, down in Mexico with my good friend Brother Arganbright, was going to fly me down there at his expense. And how I love to fish. But it was put before me. Reservations are made, the plane's ready to leave Monday. But I felt in my heart that God was going to do something here at the Angelus Temple. And I--I'm not a fanatic.
When I left home I said to my field secretary, Mr. Mercier, I said, "I believe I'll stay an extra week at the Angelus Temple, for I want to see a revival break again in that Temple that'll send the power of God, that'll sweep around the world." That the reviving of the people of God are coming together again, bone to bone, and the sinew skin... I believe that God's going to do it. Somehow I feel that I have a promise that He's going to do it. In my heart there's something moving in me, tells me something's going to take place. I've canceled everything to make ready for it, giving it room to see what this is on my heart that's speaking for this.

L-17 Mary, she didn't wait till she was positive. She didn't wait till she seen some physical sign. If I look for a physical sign for what I'm led for tonight, I'd look for every seat in here to be taken up, when the place is only about two-thirds full. But that doesn't matter. We don't have to have a overflowing crowd. There was a hundred and twenty in the upper room, but they were all in the hands of God. God started a revival with them hundred and twenty completely surrendered into His hands that's never ended, a fire that cannot be put out.
What could God do here tonight with these hundreds in His hands? It's just getting ready, believing, holding His promise before Him.

L-18 Now, Mary could have waited till she had some kind of a sign that she was going to be mother.
And you could wait after the meeting's over until you feel that you could move your crippled leg just a little better, or you could hear a little better out of that deaf ear, or the cancer seemed to be that it wasn't bothering you so much. That's not taking God at His Word. To take God at His Word is to hear His Word, and accept It, and start rejoicing with It.

L-19 We could see five hundred rush to the altar tonight, which would be a good sign then that the revival is going to break. We don't have to have five hundred at the altar; we just have to take God's Word for it and start rejoicing. Something will happen. That brings the Word to life as we water It with praises. What makes a seed grow? Water. What makes the Word of God grow is the praises of God.

L-20 When Jesus told them to wait in the upper room--or the city of Jerusalem until they was endued with power from on high, that Word fell on their ears. They was in the temple continually praising God day and night. What was they doing? Watering that promise. And all of a sudden there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were setting. The Word was being watered. And It took life and started growing.


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