<TITLE>06. Par 22-26</TITLE>L-22 Then when she never waited, little Mary didn't. Now, she had to believe something that had never happened. But look at her little childish heart... I'm going to think her to be just a young woman about eighteen, twenty years old. She never taken the second thought. As soon as she seen and knowed that was the Angel of the Lord, that knowed these things, and told her exactly according to the Scripture she had been thinking on, and told her her name, she knowed that Messenger come from God. And the Scripture that she had been thinking on was confirmed right there to her.
"Mary, the Holy Ghost will come upon you, and the Almighty shall overshadow thee. And that Holy Thing that'll be born will not be of man, but He will be called the Son of God."
She threw her little hands up, and the tears running out of those beautiful eyes, said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word."

L-23 She didn't wait till she was positive of this; she didn't wait till she felt life, or some kind of a sensation to prove that she was to be a mother. She just took His Word, and that was enough.
That's what God wants you to do tonight. Not wait till you feel better, not wait till you can move your hand better or walk a good step, not wait till the doctor says you're improving, but take God at His Word and begin to believe it. That's the only way to please Him, take His Word. That's the way miracles are performed: When God is took by His Word, the impossibles are made real: when God is took at His Word, not questioned. Just get it from your mind.

L-24 "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord." Why she was so happy about it, she just couldn't stand still, and nothing had showed up yet. But she knew it was going to, because God said so.
If Christ said, "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover," take Him at His Word. Don't doubt anything, just go right on believing. It'll be all right. God promised it; God will perform it; God watches over His Word to keep It and to answer prayer.

L-25 Then she started on her way. She heard good news of her cousin, Elisabeth, an old woman, around sixty-five, seventy years old, her husband the same age, around seventy or seventy-five years old. And she'd conceived in her old age, because she had believed God would give her a child.
It was a honor then to have a baby; it's a dishonor now. They'd rather buy a little dog, give it the love of a child. No wonder we got juvenile delinquency; we got dog-loving mothers. That's... Oh, it's a shame. But it was a honor then, and a dishonor for a woman not to have a baby.

L-26 But little Mary takes out up in the--from Nazareth, up into the hills of Judaea, up over that rough path (I guess, Brother Arganbright, you traveled that path a few weeks ago.), up over that hill into Judaea to meet her cousin, to enjoy fellowship together, because God had overshadowed both of them. "What a privilege it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It's like the anointing oil that was on Aaron's beard, that run all the way to the hems of his skirt." When people together can agree upon God still being God, God's just as great as He ever was, and can assemble themselves together and worship God in Spirit...
Mary wanted fellowship. No need in going down to the synagogue, because they didn't believe it. She went to somebody that had an experience like she had, and she went there to fellowship. So on her way she went to somebody that believed God was still just as great as He ever was.


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