<TITLE>18. Par 61-63</TITLE>L-61 There Abimelech, I guess, a good brother, said his prayers, washed hisself, and stretched his big feet out to have a nice--a nice sleep, folded his hands and said, "Tomorrow I'll marry this beautiful Hebrew woman." Took her into the house, and--and put on all kinds of fancy clothes, and earrings, and fixed her all up you know. Just only a hundred years old, you know, was about how old she was, but she was back to a young woman.
And then the next day when he thought he'd get married, God appeared to him in a dream and said, "You're just as good as a dead man." Yes, sir. "You're as good as a dead man." Said, "You've took another man's wife." So that's a good lesson, brother. "You've took another man's wife."
"Why," he said, "why, Lord, You know the integrity of my heart. You know that she told me that that was her brother, and he told me that's my sister. And the integrity of my heart..."
He said, "That's the reason I've kept you from sinning against Me. But her husband is My prophet. I'll not hear your prayer, but take his wife back to him, and let him pray for you, and I'll heal you." Amen.

L-62 Oh, I love that. God's grace to His children, the power of faith, the power of prayer, changes things. Oh, brother, sister, we're living in the shadows of His justice, the shadows of His coming. That same God that lived in Abraham's day is just the same God, today; He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. All hell can never break one of these promises. God stays with His promise. There's nothing that can ever change Him. Oh, if we could only believe Him, only realize that...
People, I'm telling you, you're Pentecostal people are seeing so much, and have through your life since you've become children of God, seen so much of the goodness, and mercy, and glory of God till it's become too common to you and... It's too common. You--you--you don't... It--that makes you lose faith.
Oh, you just think there's many people maybe that... You go over the Africa, down into Asia, down into Australia, some of them people's never seen it. And let some of them African natives, they see that happen, the glory of God fall like that, my, they believe it, take that old idol and break in the ground, and embrace Jesus Christ, 'cause they've never seen it before.

L-63 One time, there was a man, he studied and had never seen the sea, and he had studied about the sea. And he was going--had a vacation; he was going down to the sea. And so he met an old salt (sailor you know,) coming from the sea, and he said, as he went along, he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?"
He said, "Oh, I'm going to the sea. I have never seen it." He said, "Oh, I long to hear the wild call of the gulls as they fly in the air. I want to see the briny waves, and the blue raised up and slap, I want to smell that fresh salt water." Said, "I've read about it; I've thought about it," but said, "I'm going now to see it."
And the old salt pulled his pipe out of his mouth, and said, "I don't see nothing that's so good about it." Said, "I was borned on it sixty years ago." See? He'd seen so much of it till it become common. And I think that's what's the matter with us Pentecostal people. You see the glory of God so much, till it becomes common. Never let it become common. We must always reverence it, and respect it, and believe it with all of our hearts, with all of our hearts.


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