<TITLE>04. Par 19-25</TITLE>L-19 Heavenly Father, humbly and quietly and reverently we come into Thy great august Presence, knowing before that one thing happens, You are here because You promised to be. You said, before Your going away, "Wherever that two or three are gathered in My Name, there I'll be in their midst. And if they shall agree upon any single thing, as touching one thing, ask, they shall receive." Lord, to bring Your promise to this, the purchase of Thy Blood, I ask that every man, woman, or child, that raised their hands tonight, You know their heart; may they receive what they're asking for. Grant it, Lord.
We are a needy people. We're walking in a dark world, with a great enemy of Yours that we could not combat with him at all if it wasn't for Your Holy Spirit. Therefore we are trusting, believing, and acting in faith, that He'll go before us and make the way clear. So many pitfalls along the road, set for our weary feet, but we are trying to follow the Bloody footprints of Him Who overcome death, hell, and the grave.
Guide us tonight by Thy Holy Spirit, Lord, to the Words that should be said; then guide the Words to the heart that is needy of them. Then, Lord, may at the end of the meeting, and we start to our different homes, may we be able to say again, like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the way." For we ask it in Jesus' Name and for His sake. Amen.

L-22 To you who are keeping down the Scriptures, turn with me now to the book of I Kings. I wish to read a portion out of the 17th verse--17th chapter, rather. Now I'm going to begin at the 14th verse, read the 14th, 15th and 16th verses of the 17th chapter of I Kings.
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day... the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.

L-23 It must have been almost daylight when she was awakened. She turned her weary head on the pillow when she heard a mournful, little cry across the room. And she had not been able to sleep all night; she was tossed about because of this great tragedy. The little boy had wakened again, not being asleep over twenty or thirty minutes, and I can hear his little voice say, "Mama, won't you go out and look in the pantry again and see if there isn't just one little piece of bread? I'm so hungry. I just can't sleep."
And as she looked in his little face with the--his little sinking cheeks, and his little eyes turning yellow, his long hair hanging down from failing to be cut, his little r--ragged nightshirt; the big tears from her eyes spat upon his little face, as she patted him on the cheek and said, "Darling, try to go to sleep and understand."

L-25 There had been three years there had been no rain on the earth. She knelt down on the floor; I can see her as she cried out to God; she said, "O Lord God Jehovah, Thou art the God of our fathers, Who has fed Thy children and cared for them through the years. And I've tried to live true and upright to Thee, and now I am here seeing my little boy crying for something to eat, and nothing to give him. For many weeks now we've been allowancing ourselves up to a place of one meal every three or four days, and now it's all gone but one little handful of meal and just a spoonful of oil. And I'm trying to hold it off until daylight, that we'll not have to die while it is in the night. What have I done, O God? I, Your handsmaid has lived true. My husband was lost in battle, the battle for the Lord, and I've been a widow for several years now, and I've tried to live right and keep Your commandments. And if it's my time to go, I don't mind; but my little boy, it just tears my heart to pieces to hear him beg for something to eat, with nothing to give him."


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