<TITLE>10. Par 38-42</TITLE>L-38 And as long as human beings search, and hunger, and thirst, calling for the power of God, there's got to be a power of God somewhere to respond to it. Before there can be a creation, there has to be a Creator in there creating that creation.
When a man longs to see God, there's got to be a God somewhere that created that desire in him. If the deep's calling to a deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to that, because the deep had to be first there to create the call that's in you.

L-39 Now, that little woman was on her road, everything against her. But when once, she got a feeling that God was a real God, God was real, she begin to thirst. Another one come in, said, "Oh, I seen him stand... One of the most mysterious things I ever seen, but he solved it right out under the power of his God, and told them exactly the answer." Oh, it just shook the little queen.
She said, "Oh, I must see it. I must see it. I'm a human being. My life, my eternal destination is before me. I must see it." Nothing's going to stop her.
You don't think of dangers. You don't think of criticism. You don't think of what somebody else is going to say.

L-40 When that Angel of the Lord met me up there that night... All my brethren in my church told me, said, "Them visions are of... That's the devil. You're--you're a spiritualist." But when--I just couldn't see why it could be and me loving Him the way I did. When I met Him up there that night, oh brother, the deep was calling to the deep, and there was Something responded to it.
I went to the overseer of the church. He said, "Billy, you had a nightmare."
I said, "If that's the--that... If that's the way this church feels about it, here's my fellowship card."
Said, "Oh, I didn't mean it that way."
"But, you know, such and such can't happen."
I said, "All right. I might as well give up the fellowship now, 'cause you're going to kick me out after while anyhow. So I might as well get started free and clean and get going." So there it was. When the deep was calling, there's something to respond to it.

L-41 Now, some of them said, "This great big Goliath out here, medical science and all this fine cultured churches..."
I said, "I can't help how much Goliath it is; God's still God. The God of David still lives. The God of Abraham still lives. The God of Jacob lives. The God that was in Christ is living tonight. He's raised, and I know He's real."
There's something that, no matter what the difficulty is, you want to go anyhow, because there's a... You've got an objective. And if you'll take the right motive towards that objective, you'll get there. You've got to have the right motive towards your objective. That's the way I always find the will of God. First, think, "If it's the will of God, then my motive and my objective to it..." If it's the right motive, then the objective, I have.

L-42 If God would say, "Go over here and preach at this group."
I'd say, "Well, how much will I get in a--a love offering?" 'Course that's all cut out: I get a hundred dollars a week no matter whether I preach or don't. Like--that settles it. So--but even before that, before I was on a salary, don't make any difference where it was, the right objective is see what you could do for the Kingdom of God. Go where He leads you to go. No matter where it is, whether it's little or small.
I've never permitted my meetings to grow or get any size. I don't need much money, have one little end of a trailer with two typewriters in it, two boys I'm paying. That's all. 'Cause why? God might call me to a little place over here.
Just recently I held a revival in a church that held twenty. Then, if He wants me to go overseas and preach to a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand, whatever it is, He puts it upon somebody's heart to send me over there, the same time He gives me the call. Oh, it's nothing like it! Live for Him. Trust Him day by day. Lead... Where the deep calling...


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