<TITLE>06. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 Reminds me of a little parable I was telling my children. I got two little girls. One of them's name is Rebekah. She's my first borned. And Sarah, her little sister is next. Rebekah's about twelve years old, skinny, long-legged. And Sarah is a little short girl. She's seven years old.
And one night, I place it like this: I was coming home from meetings, and they'd waited up a long time to--to see me. And they got sleepy and had to go to bed. I come in weary and tired, and worn. I laid down to sleep, sometime after midnight. And along before daylight, I couldn't sleep, and I got up early to keep from waking the wife up, went out into the parlor and set down in a chair.
And as I was setting there thinking of the meetings, and praying for the different ones who'd asked me request, I heard a scramble in the children's bedroom. And here come the door bursting open, and here come Rebekah just as hard as she could go. And she jumped up astraddle my knee, and her long legs reached down to the floor. She threw her arms around me and begin to hug me.
Then I heard something falling, stumbling over the rugs. Sarah was behind her. And she was wearing Rebekah's hand-me-down pajamas with the feet much too long, she couldn't stand up good with them on. And she was stumbling.

L-20 And when Rebekah got seated real good, her long legs reaching down to the floor. I thought, "Well, this is for some cause." And Rebekah remind me of the church that's all settled. Knows all of its doctrines, been in for a long time, well seated.
She turned around to her little sister, Sarah. And Sarah was at the door, there in the hall. She said, "Sarah, I want to tell you something." She threw both arms around me, and she said, "I've got all of daddy, and there's none left for you."

L-21 And little Sarah, like the minority church. Her little lips dropped down, her little brown eyes begin to water, because that Becky had all of daddy, and she loved daddy too.

L-22 So, I stuck out my other leg to her, and motioned my finger. Oh, her little eyes brightened up, here she come with them little pajama feet flying, jumped right astraddle my leg. And she's like the minority church. She wasn't so settled down with great denominations behind her, and she was kind of tottery. I was afraid she was going to fall, so I took both arms and put them around her. I hugged her up to my bosom.
She snugged down close to me for a few minutes, then she turned those little black eyes up to her sister, Rebekah, and she said, "Rebekah, my sister, I want to tell you something." She said, "It is the truth that you've got all of daddy, but I want you to know that daddy's got all of me."
That's the way I want it. I may not know all the grammar, and all the Greek, and all the Hebrew, but all I want to know that Christ has got all of me. I want to be so completely insufficient till I can feel His arms around me.
Elijah might've not known all the laws of the land, but God had complete control of him.

L-23 Around about day break, all night it had been horrible. See, she'd been gradually getting lower and lower in the meal. And that night, she knew that when she put him to bed, her little boy... His father was gone. She was a righteous woman, a God fearing woman. And that night, I can see them as they knelt down to pray. And as she looked at his little pajama arms, and they were thread bare, his little face was marred from hunger. She'd give her part to him, because she knowed just a little longer and they'd be gone. There was no bread in the land. There was no meal; there was no oil; there was no rain; but yet, she trusted God.
She couldn't sleep. Every once in a while, he'd turn over and say, "Mama, won't you go out to the cupboard, and look one more time, and see if there's just one bite of that bread left. I'm so hungry; I can't sleep."


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