<TITLE>08. Par 29-33</TITLE>L-29 See how short we are today? See how--why people tonight can be a church member, and stay home in the time of a revival to watch a television program. They'll--they'll stay home to watch a carnival, or to hear a political speech or something. It's because they are thirsting, but they're trying to satisfy that thirst with the things of the world.
If you just open up that heart one time to God... David said in another Psalm, he said, "As the hart thirsts after the waterbrook, so my soul thirst after Thee, O God."

L-30 No wonder we can come to a meeting, see the manifestation of the power of God, and then go away, and say, "Oh, well, I--there was nothing to it."
Mama used to tell me, "You can't get blood out of a turnip." If God's Spirit's in you and you see God's Word fulfilled, It'll make you rejoice. Something has to move.
When Jesus came into the city, He said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out." Something has to move when the Spirit of God comes riding in.

L-31 David was a woodsman. He knowed what the woods was. He knowed how--how the animals. Oh, I hear him write of the shady green pastures and the still waters. He could appreciate it, because there he found God.
Who could look at a flower and say there's no God? Did you ever notice how it's little seed comes up in the spring, a pretty little blossom comes on it. And after while, frost hits it. It dies, bows it's little head. And then, God has a funeral procession for His flowers. I don't know whether you know that or not. But He does. The fall rains come and cry tears down out of the sky, and it buries that little seed. The cold winter comes in my country, and freezes that ground for s--maybe a foot deep. That little seed freezes, the pulp runs out of the little seed, the petal's gone, the flower's gone, the bulb's gone, the seed's gone, the pulp's gone. But just let that sun start rising in the springtime again. That little flower will live again. Certainly. And if God made a way for a flower to live again, how much more has He made a way for a man in His own image to live again?
David studied nature, and his heart longed. And one day, so crying out for God. He said, "As the hart panteth for the waterbrook, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."

L-32 I'm a hunter. And I suppose I'm talking to many of them. And anyone knows, if you ever shoot a deer and wound him, if that deer can get to water, you'll never catch that deer. He--he'll drink water, go up over the hill, come back, drink water, go up over the hill. That cold water will stop his bleeding, and you'll never catch him.
And David had been noticing in the country that he lived in, like in Africa, they have wild dogs. And these wild dogs are something like our wolf. And they have two blood fangs that hangs down over the sides of their mouth. And they're very cunning in their catching of deer, just like the devil. And usually they see the deer. And if one little deer will wander off to himself, that's a real place to get one.

L-33 That's what I think about sometime, God's little dears sometimes wander off from the fold. There might be some here tonight that's wandered away from the protection of the church, and the protection of the loved ones who'd pray for you and help you to come back to God, keep you straight, come to the church and listen at the Gospel. There may be some in radio-land that's wandered away.
And then, you watch these killer dogs, hounds. They start slipping up real easy, like a cat. And they go a little piece.
And there's something about it, that those deer can almost sense that there's something wrong. They raise their little head; they get nervous.
There's not a person in my hearing tonight, there's not a backslider but what knows, that since you left the fold of God, that you've been nervous and upset. There's something wrong.


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