<TITLE>07. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 When a tree... You people here in Texas are great on fruit. When a little tree's set out about that size, say a little peach tree... Now, my mother come from Paris, Texas, so I'm just a little bit of Texan, you know, so, enough to love it real well, and its people. Now, when a little tree... She come the peach country.
A little tree no more than one half inch high, did you know every peach that'll ever be in that tree is in it then? If it isn't, where does it come from? It's planted in the ground, and it has to grow, and it has to drink. And it drinks from the water of the earth, and in there brings in the vitamins and so forth, bringing it in from the earth as it drinks. And it drinks over its allotted portion. So the more it drinks, the farther it pushes out. It pushes out limbs, then it pushes out leaves, then it pushes out blossoms, then it pushes out peaches.
Well, that's the way a Christian is. When we are planted in Christ Jesus, the inexhaustible Fountain of Life, everything we have need of is in us then. We just keep drinking and pushing out, drinking and pushing out. If we have need of more of God, just keep drinking and pushing out. If we need healing, just drink and push out. That's all. Just...

L-23 God told Joshua, "Every foot of ground wherever your... Every piece of ground that your foot steps upon, I give to you for a possession." So footprints meant possession. And God's given us every blessing that we have need of and will ask for, and the only thing we have to do is take it. Now, God's not going to bring it and give it to you. You've got to go get it. It's yours. You understand now everyone? We've got to possess it. It's ours.
God told Moses down in Egypt, "I've give you the land," but it was invested with Amorites, Hittites, and all different kinds of "ites" and "mites." But God could've went up there and caused a storm to come by, and swept it all out, and said, "Come on in, children." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He doesn't do it that way. He said, "I've give it to you; now go take it."

L-24 Now, it depends on what you look at. There was... Many of the spies that went to spy out, come back (ten of them) and brought back a bad report: "We can't do it. It would mar us. They're bigger than we are," all that. But two had the evidence. Two come back, because it depends on what they were looking at. The others were looking at the Amorites, and the Hittites, and so forth. But Joshua and Caleb was looking at God's promise. Therefore they said, "We're more than able to do it."
Now, what are you looking at tonight? Look at God's promise, and keep drinking and pushing. And if you do that, something's going to take place.
If I didn't think I'd be a blessing to you, I certainly wouldn't come here. I--I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't come, tell you something to deceive you, because if I didn't know it to be the truth, then I'd stay home. I'd come down, shook your hands, visit with you, went home, and seen who had the best cook, and--and then come on--went on back home; went fishing with you, or something another, or--or something like that. But I know that the thing that I'm speaking of: Divine healing, salvation, those things are real, more real than we're setting here. Now, let's believe it with all of our hearts as we read.

L-25 Saint John, 12th chapter, 20th and 21st verse.
 There were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
And now, if I'd call it a little text, a little talk, I want to take Hebrews 13:8. That's been the--my theme all through these years: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."


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