<TITLE>17. Par 59-61</TITLE>L-59 Well, that's just about the way that people gets in. We've got to have something that we got a purpose for. We've got to purpose in our hearts. We've got to do something. Now, you say, "Oh, we're having revival. Yeah, we're over in the Eisenhower School Auditorium." Don't let that be you, just a floater and a drifter. You can never amount to anything like that. Let's get up and do something about it. Let's put our shoulder to the wheel. Let's see that our church prospers; let's get the Kingdom prospering. Let's see that the sick gets in here. Let's see that God is laid down among the people, and great signs and wonders take place that'll strike the nation. I'm satisfied that there'll be things happen here that'll thrill this country, that'll shake it for the Kingdom of God, if each one of us will get behind it.
What are we doing? Building the platform for our Lord. We wanting to bring Him to Yakima; we're want to bring Him in a great revival. And we've got to elect Him in our own hearts. We got to purpose something, get something to do with it, something to do for, some purpose. You don't just, oh, join the church and drift on. You don't do it that way. You always, you've got to have a purpose in what you're doing.
Wife say, "Well, I'm just a wife."
Get on the telephone; do something. Do something to help the Lord Jesus now.

L-60 Now, there is a time that a man can come to a place where he can have a purpose. It's something that will change him. And that is, when a man meets God. A man can never be the same if he ever meets God face to face. It will change him in spite of anything you can do about it. A man can never be the same after he once meets God. Now, that's the truth.
Let us take somebody. Start with Noah. Noah had no certain purpose in life. He was a common farmer, out in the field. And one day God met him, and He spoke to him, and told him something that was impossible to ever happen would take place. Then from that hour on, while Noah purposed in his heart that he'd build that ark regardless of what all fanatics said... Why, it never rained from the heavens. They never had any moisture upon the earth. It was irrigated from springs. There'd never been in a cloud in the sky. How was he going to do it? Well, God said it was going to happen, and Noah purposed in his heart to achieve this something for God, and he did it. No matter how much they laughed at him, or how much they said, this, that, or the other.
"How's it going to rain? Where's it going to rain at, Noah?"
"I don't know."
"Well, show me where the rain is."
"I can't show you, but when the time comes, the rain will be there." That's right. He met God.

L-61 And when your doctor turns you down, and said, "Cancer's going to kill you." How in the world you going to live? I can't tell you how it's going to be, but God said, "The prayer of faith will save the sick. And it'll be that." That's right.
Someone said to me, not long ago, I was preaching on Elijah, and the crows feeding him. I made a little rude statement, and colored people excuse me for this. But I said, "He's a lot better off. They said he was crazy up there in that tree. He had colored servants to serve him every day. And when he wanted water, he'd reach down and get a drink. When it come time for a meal, a colored servant, a crow come brought him a sandwich."
And a minister from a certain church said to me, "You don't actually believe that those were sandwiches?"
I said, "I certainly do. The Bible said it was meat and bread and I believe it."
Said, "Then I want to ask you something: Where did he get it? Where did those crows get it?"
I said, "That wasn't up to Elijah to figure all that out. He just knowed God told him he'd feed him; the crows brought it, he eat it, and he's satisfied with it. And that's all that counted."


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