<TITLE>12. Par 37-38</TITLE>L-37 Take a little old duck, I go up in the north woods sometimes to hunt. Hunted the world over. Go up in the north woods, there's a little old duck borned up there on that lake. He never was off that lake. He was borned there that spring. But somehow or another, when the snow caps come on the mountains, and that first little cold breeze comes down across the mountain, there's a certain little duck on that pond, he's a little old drake. He gets right out there in the middle of that pond, sticks that little honker up in the air, and go, "Honk, honk," and every duck on the pond will come to him. Yes, sir. What will he do? He will rise off of that... Remember he never was off that pond, but he will come right up off that pond and lead--lead every one of them ducks just as straight to Louisiana to the rice fields as he can go. If he doesn't, it'll all be froze over.
Surely, we ought to have duck sense. If a God can use the instinct of a duck to lead his people or his duckling friends away from a place that would freeze, surely the power of the Holy Ghost ought to lead us to Christ, Who is our Healer, and away from danger. God gave a duck instinct. He gave you the Holy Ghost. Oh, I feel religious right now. Yes, I do. Yes, He gave us the Holy Ghost to escape those things. Certainly.
You take--turn on your radio and it say, "Tomorrow, it's going to be cold weather, or going to be a--a hot weather, whatever the radio would say." We'll say for instance, it's going to be a--it's going to be warm tomorrow. It'll be warm. And you watch that old sow hog go over there and take them sticks that's on the north side of the hill, and carry it over to the other side the hill; don't you pay no attention what that radio man said. He don't know what he's talking about; that hog does. You go out and watch these rabbits get right down under the brush and let the man say, "It's going to be fair weather." Don't you pay no attention what he says; that rabbit knows more than he will ever know, about that. God's give him a way to escape the things, and he believes in it, and he makes ready for it.

L-38 Like Noah did with the ark, he prepared the ark before any rain fell. Amen. Are you ready, this afternoon, to fly away? Can you see God? Get away from these sicknesses, and diseases, and doubts, and flusterations. God's in His universe.
Not long ago, a few years ago, dad and I were plowing. And it was a hot morning; we was laying by corn, and Dad said, "Well, the horses begin to snort and snort."
I said, "What's the matter with him, daddy? Is there a coyote back there?"
He said, "No, no. It's coming up a storm."
I said, "A what?"
Said, "A storm."
I said, "I don't see any storm anywhere."
He said, "Billy, stop a minute." Said, "You don't understand." He said, "God has given a horse an instinct that when a storm is coming." You all which has ever rode a horse, know how lightning will play right over his mane. He said, "He's got--he's got a instinct to get to safety. That's the reason he's snorting. They're wanting to get to the barn."
And I said, "A storm? Why," I said, "there isn't a thunder; there isn't a lightning; there isn't a cloud anywhere."
He said, "But you just watch a few minutes."
I hadn't plowed two rounds, and here come the storm. See? God gave them instinct. God is in every creature, everywhere, if you'll just watch them. God's in His universe. You believe it? Certainly, He is.


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