<TITLE>08. Par 30-35</TITLE>L-30 And the Shunammite woman, she said, "All is well." Why? Her husband wringing his hands and screaming, all the relatives screaming and wailing, and going on, and here she was with a broken heart, the baby laying on the prophet's bed dead, her only son, and an old woman, an old man... How she loved that little fellow. But "All is well," for she was standing before God's representative.
And he knowed... She knowed that God could reveal through that representative of His whatever it was. God gave, and God taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord. But she wanted to know why God took it. I like that.
And God has a representative in the world today. We call it the Holy Spirit. Stand in His Presence. Oh, God. I wish people could get that. Stand in His Presence and find out what He said.

L-31 And she said, "All is well." I suppose the heart of the prophet become cheered up. So she came, and fell down, and grabbed him around the legs. That was kind of misbehavior, the servant thought. This woman shouldn't fall around his master like that. So what did he do but jerk her up.
And so Elijah said, "Let her alone. Her heart's full of grief, and God's hid it from me."
And then she revealed what had happened, said, "Why did God give me this son? Why did you tell me that to deceive me? Now, the boy's laying dead."

L-32 Watch Elijah. He said... He knowed that everything he touched was blessed when he was anointed. He said to Gehazi, "Take this staff and you go forward. And if any man salutes you, don't you salute him. Don't stop for any social affairs."
I think that's what God does with His Word. It's Anointed. It's Him, and we're His messengers. We ain't got time to stop to do this, and argue this, and fuss this. The Message is urgent. People are dying. Let's get there. Stop our denominational barriers, and everything else, and let's break through. Yes, sir. Get the Message to a dying world. Then... Don't want to get on that, I start preaching.

L-33 Now, however, he started on. But the woman's faith wasn't in the staff. Her faith was in the prophet. And she said, "As the Lord God liveth, your soul never dies." She knowed He was alive forevermore. "... your soul never dies, I'll not leave you." Oh, my. That's it. Now you got it. Hold on. Take a hold of the Holy Spirit like that and don't turn It loose. "My arm's any better today, it don't make any difference. Tomorrow, don't make any difference, whenever it is, I'll hold till it does come right. I've got Your promise. You give Your promise. I know of others who was healed by it, and I'll hold right here. I'm on Your hands." Amen. Something's going to happen then.

L-34 When you take God's promise and hold it, "Lord, You told me that if I would meet the qualifications of repentance, and so forth, that You'd give me the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I'm right here on Your hands till You do it."
I like kind of Buddy Robinson's testimony there. Got out in the middle of the cornfield, said, "If You don't give me the Holy Ghost," said, "when You come back to earth, there'll be a pile of bones laying right here." I like that. Yes, sir. That's when he got something. That's the way you want to do it. Hold on to it.

L-35 I admire that woman. Her faith was in the prophet. She held him. She said, "I'm not going to leave you." So well, it's just...
Now, Jesus taught that same thing. How about the unjust judge and the widow? He wouldn't revenge, and although she cried day and night, why, he--he revenged her enemies just to get rid of her. Said "How much more will your heavenly Father give them the Holy Ghost who ask Him?" That's what we want.


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