<TITLE>06. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 And I thought, "Well, what's the matter with the little fellow." I said, "Don't you like that?" I said, "Watch this then." And around and around and around and around the tree I went again. And he just kept chattering the more. I said, "I'm praising my Creator, little fellow." I said, "I'm having a good time with Him. We're holding a conference here. I told him that I was empty and He's filling me, see? Here's the way it goes." And around and around and around the tree I went again.
And I happened to notice the little guy wasn't noticing me so much, as he kept cocking his little head sideways, his little eyes bugged out on the cheek, almost, looking down like this. Well, I stopped, and I thought, "Now what's interrupting me?" And I looked down in that blow-down. And during the time of the storm had forced a big eagle down into the brush where the trees were lapped and years before it had a blow-down. And he was chirping or fussing at this eagle, and the big eagle was crawling out from under this brush. And he looked up at me, and jumped up on the log.

L-25 And I thought, "Well, now, what's so godly about you?" And I looked at him like that, and I thought, "Well, God, why did you let me stop worshiping You and shouting, just to look at that old eagle?" Well, an eagle... God likens Himself to an eagle, and He calls His prophets eagles, because the eagle can fly higher than any other bird there is. There's nothing can follow him. If a hawk would try to follow him, he'd disintegrate in the air. That's right.
Well, he's got an eye that he can see after he gets up there. That's the reason I say, anybody that's jumping, just jump as high as you can live, you know. That's all. Because what good does it do you to get up, if you can't see something while you're up there? It doesn't do any good. So he gets up there, and he's got an eye he can see far off things before they get here. And that's the reason God likened the eagles to His prophets, or His prophets to the eagles; and He call Hisself Jehovah Eagle, so, and we're eaglets.

L-26 Now, there's a lot of difference between a eagle and a chicken. They're both birds, but one of them is earthbound and the other one's heaven bound. So that's just a lot different, only they're about cousins or something. So if the chicken can't get his feet off the ground, don't worry; he's just a chicken to begin with, you know. He will never get up there and know what an eagle knows, that can fly up there in the heavenlies.
So I watched this fellow as he was setting there, with his great big gray-looking eyes watching me. And I thought, "Well, there's one thing I admire about him. He's not afraid." And I hate a coward, so... God does too. So, a man that's afraid after he's been healed to testify about it, a man that God has saved and then he's ashamed to tell somebody that he's saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, I haven't got much confidence in his salvation. So, when you really get it you want to tell everybody. You just can't keep still. What the church needs is some more Holy Spirit and fire in it that moves, that moves the church. Takes fire to move the church.

L-27 So this old fellow I watched him for a few moments, and after awhile, after he seen that I was admiring him, I said to him, "Hey, do you know I could shoot you before you got off that log?" just to s--see just--see if he was scared of me. He wasn't afraid--just sitting there. And I noticed... "What makes you so sure of yourself?" I noticed he kept moving his wings, just feeling if all the feathers was in the right condition. 'Cause he had a lot of confidence in them wings, and he knowed that he could be in that timber before I ever put my hand on that rifle. And there I got a lesson. I thought, "Here in this conference I'm learning something," see.


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