<TITLE>19. Par 69-72</TITLE>L-69 And that's what's the matter with the church today. It needs a good nest-stirring to get some of the loose feathers out of it, out of its wings. Packing a chip on your shoulders, and grudges, and things like that, you'll die in the flight.
How can God ever have a church with signs, and wonders, and miracles, when you're fussing one another, "I'm this, I'm that," and grudge grudges, and everything. Fan up till... The Holy Ghost come down like a rushing wind, fan all the differences and denominationalism, all them little old loose feathers, "I'm this, and I'm that." You're nothing that you ought to be, what the Scripture said.
Fan out all the loose feathers (Oh, my.), get them all tightened up, because she's going to take them on a real ride pretty soon, a solo. Oh, my. That solo flight, the first one... Then she--she fans all the feathers out, and the nest just boils like that. The loose feathers are flying everywhere. Get all the feathers flying out, so they get good tight ones in there. And she examines them over and see if they're ready.
That's what God's trying to do to His church now. Just can't get her ready, them feathers just keep getting loose. You need some more spiritual vitamins to tighten it up, some eagle vitamins. That's the Word. Tighten up them feathers.

L-70 Then the first thing when she gets it all out, then she's got to get them to believe her. So she spreads her great big wings out and screams to the top of her voice. She fans them like that, that rushing mighty wind, you know, that comes down. Oh, my.
And the little eagles just fall back. They don't look out and say, "Let's see what Dr. Jones said about it." No, no. They look up. Oh, and they see them great big wings. See what she's trying to do? She's trying to get them little eaglets to realize how great she is, the power. They got to trust in them big wings.
That's the way God does. He fans all the feathers out of you. Then He's got two wings, God has; you know, that Jehovah Eagle-- that's the New and Old Testament. He fans them before you. Oh, my. "I'm the God of Moses. I'm the God of Abraham. I'm the God that raised Lazarus from the grave. I'm He that was dead and alive again, alive forevermore."
The New and Old Testament, fanning back and forth, the little eagles lay back there, and say, "How great Thou art, how great Thou art."
"Trust me."

L-71 What good does it do to give a canary bird vitamins for his wings, and make good bones, and wings, and then keep him in a cage? What good does it do to educate preachers of theology, and history, and everything else, and then tell them the days of miracles is past, and cage them up in some denomination? Nonsense. Turn him loose, and let him fly. He's an eagle. Amen. Tell him days of miracles is all past, that's not an eagle; that's a buzzard (yes, sir), eating dead things.
Now, notice what happened. Then when mother gets them to see them little eagles lay out there, and say, "How great Thou art, how great..."

L-72 Did you ever go out at nighttime and look? I was out here at Mount Palomar, I believe it was.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... it runs all the way around Beaumont. Still wouldn't have it broke down in my... and beyond that. And what did he do? [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] Just blowed them off his hands. How great Thou art, how great Thou art.
Look at the God of Moses, Who opened up the Red Sea, took the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, Daniel out of the lion's den, Lazarus out of the grave. "I have power..." God raised Him up; that's true. But He said, "I have power to lay My life down. I have power to take it up again." Amen. How great Thou art. "Trust Me; I am the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Them big wings... Find out that Jesus of the New Testament is Jehovah of the Old. Them big wings, fanning up and down that rushing mighty wind, feeding in that, oh, how I like to lay in them breezes. How great Thou art, how great Thou art. Stirring up the nest (yes, sir), getting it ready...


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