<TITLE>18. Par 61-64</TITLE>L-61 And we're supposed to be sons and daughters of Abraham, that the children of Abraham. And if it don't happen in two minutes after we're prayed for, we say, "Oh, I didn't get it." Oh, you're a poor excuse for a son and daughter of Abraham like that. Abraham...
And instead of him getting weaker, the Bible said, "He got stronger all the time." Got stronger... When he was a hundred years old, he was still giving God praise. He was going to have it, and he did. They had this child, because God said so. God is to be took at His Word. What God says comes to pass, no matter how long it is, what it is. God said so, and you just hold on to it. That's all. Just stay with it; it'll bring you through.

L-62 There was Bartimaeus setting there, thought, "Oh, if this very rock hanging on the wall and the power of God by the people shouting, it fell off of the wall. What a wonderful thing," he must have thought. "That was a wonderful thing. Oh, if I could've only lived when Joshua crossed that Jordan. I'd run out there to Joshua and say, 'Joshua, thou great warrior of God, I know that you're a man of God. God has called you; you're a--you're a great man. Have prayer for my blinded eyes, Joshua. And I--I know I will see if you will just pray for me.'"
But alas, "The days of miracles is passed," said his church. "We don't have that no more. God doesn't heal any more; He doesn't do miracles. He's just God. He expects us to be very good clergymen, and have a good education, and know how to speak to the people, and say 'Amen,' real pretty, and you know, and such things as that, and--and intellectual."
That's got the same thing today; it hasn't changed a bit. You know, the--the devil takes his man, but never his spirit. And God takes his man, but never His Spirit. So they still war in human beings just the same. One will say... Oh, very religious, like Esau and Jacob and so forth, you know, very religious, but still don't believe the supernatural. But when the supernatural comes, it changes things. God comes amongst the people Himself and shows Hisself that He is God, that He is the Jehovah.

L-63 And then Joshua, after coming over to this side, one day he was walking around viewing the walls, seeing how thick they was and how great they were, walking around. And he saw a Man. And the man drew a sword, and started at Joshua. And Joshua drew his sword, and he started to meet the Man. Joshua said, "Are you for us? Are you of our enemy?"
And the Man that had the sword drawed, said, "Nay, I'm the Captain of the Host of the Lord."
The great Joshua dropped his sword, threw off his helmet, laid down his shield, and bowed down at the foot of the Man: the Captain of the Host of the Lord. Oh, my. "I'm the Captain of the Lord's Host."

L-64 Blind Bartimaeus must've said this, "Oh, think. That Man stood no more than a hundred yards from where I'm setting. If I'd only lived then, I'd have run out to this Captain of the Lord's Host, and said, 'Oh, great Captain of the Host of the Lord, restore my sight to me that I can see to make a living for my family.' And the Captain of the Lord's Host would've restored my sight. But alas, they said the days of miracles is passed."
Little did he know... Little did he know, that less then a hundred yards stood the same Captain, coming again in the Name of the Lord on His road.
That's what I think now. These people on the beds, and in the chairs, and with heart trouble, and whatever you've got, and cancer, that same Captain of the Lord's Host is right here tonight in the form of the Holy Ghost. If you'd just open up your eyes and look, your understanding, that you might perceive that He's in our midst.


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