<TITLE>08. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 See, she'd met God: that made the difference. Something was taking place. "Oh," she said, "Though I knowed that you was to be mother, there was an Angel met me yesterday morning as I was going to the well. And he give me a great salute and told me I'd found favor with God, and the Holy Ghost was going to overshadow me. And told me that I was to have a Son. And said that you were to have a son, too."
She said, "But honey, the baby's dead. It's six months with me as mother, and the baby's never moved yet."
She said, "Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. You know when He oversh--said the Holy Ghost would overshadow me, and that baby that would be borned in me, from me, would be called the Son of God, and I'd call His Name Jesus..."
And just as soon as she said, "Jesus," the first time that word ever come from a mortal lip, little John received the Holy Ghost--dead in his mother's womb--and begin to jump for joy in the wombs of his mother.
Oh, if the Name of Jesus Christ would bring a dead baby to life and fill it with the Holy Ghost, what ought it to do to a borned again church that claims to be full of the Holy Ghost?

L-23 The--soon as I said, "Blessed art thou"--said, "for as soon as thy salutation come to my ears, 'When come the mother of my Lord,' as soon as I heard His Name, my baby leaped in the womb for joy. John begin to shout when he heard the Name of Jesus Christ spoke--come to life.
From that time, there wasn't any worrying about the baby any more, because they knew it would be there. The great things of God was on the road.

L-24 Simon, the fisherman, a doubter, scorner, to Andrew his brother about Jesus being Messiah... One time, Andrew persuaded him to come to the meeting, and as soon as he came in the Presence of God, He looked at him and said, "Your name is Simon. You're the son of Jonas." And from that time, Peter was a believer.
Is--was the great saint Paul who was first Saul, a persecutor of the church, on his road to Damascus with letters in his pockets from the high priest to take all those people that were shouting and speaking in tongues and so forth and put them in prison. About noontime, there was a light shined out of the heavens, and he fell to his feet into the dust. And there came a voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" And from that time, Saul was changed to Paul and become a real believer and a worker in the church.

L-25 It was also in our service, last night, when an old blind beggar, who didn't even have food in his house, perhaps, set by the roadside, begging--blind, and could not tell daylight from dark-- but he come in the Presence of the Lord Jesus. He called out till his faith touched Him, and from that time he could see. When he touched God, from that time his life was changed.
There was a leper, laying at the gate, crying, "Unclean, unclean." And Jesus passed by. And his first contact with Jesus, he touched Him, and from that time the leprosy was gone.
It was a maniac in Gadara, who was so powerful possessed of the devil, till they would chain him and he'd break the chains and cut hisself with pieces of stone. Was such an awful man until no one could pass by: he would murder them if he could get a hold of them, so possessed of the devil. Everybody bypassed the way. And one day Jesus came along, and from that time he was a changed man, and had his right mind, and could go home to his family. From that time, he had met God.


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