<TITLE>09. Par 65-74</TITLE>L-65 Pharaoh was training him then. God was training him... Pharaoh had forty years to train him, then God took forty years to train him, let him forget all about it. Man's training and God's training... Pharaoh was training a son for a leader, a diplomat, for a warrior, a fighter, for another coming Pharaoh that would hold Egypt in it's high places, downing all other nations and make them pay tribute to Pharaoh. But God took him on the backside of the desert, took all that out of him, and showed him in five minutes time by a burning bush that He was the living God. He took all the fear out of him, got him ready. He was a sign.

L-66 God wants His people to pray. And when Israel got so taxed in such a condition that they could not go any farther, their time was fulfilled and their burdens was--lay farther than what they thought, then they begin to pray. And when the people begin to pray, then God begin to hear. It was time for God's Word to be fulfilled.
And so when Amram and Jochebed saw that it was time for the Word to be fulfilled, they went to prayer to God. And it's usually those who pray is the one who's got the burden, the one who gets something. It's those who pray, that's ordained of God to do so.

L-68 We were talking this morning at the breakfast table while we were hurrying through some toast and so forth to get to the church. There was something said about a certain man that had (away from here)--that had went back to smoking cigarettes after he had been healed of cancer. I said, "What a pity."
So then one spoke up and said, "That is the most horrible thing to get away from there is, smoking cigarettes."
I said, "I know it, because it's a devil," and I said, "It's--it's a devil." And I said, "And you cannot stop it unless the power of God's upon you." I know of two fellows in my early life, both of them wanted to be men of God. One of them as soon as I led him to Christ, he started to light up a cigarette... He smoked five or six packs a day, just set and just light one off the other one all day long. And he tried to light another cigarette, and something wouldn't let him do it. He walked over to the stove, not knowing that the Scriptures condemn them things, and opened up the stove, and shoved the pack in the stove; and that settled it.

L-71 And where another fellow that wanted to become a Christian, and he tried his best; he cried out to the Lord. He quit them for two or three weeks, and when he come to hisself in that condition... He went out of his mind. And he come to hisself and found hisself out in the back yard beating on a piece of tin, out of his head. Run in the house real quick and grabbed his cigarettes and smoked a pack before he left the house that evening, just one right after the other one.
See, one was called. "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him, and all the Father has given Me will come to Me." What did the warning mean? It was life to one. He saw it. You can't see it unless God reveals it. It's hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent and revealed to babes such as will learn. That's right.
Amram and Jochebed knew it was time, the hour was close at hand.

L-74 And I want to say this while I'm speaking of it. It's not him that willeth or him that runneth; it's God that showeth mercy. That's right. It's God.
So today... Oh, let this sink deep. If today God has called you and you separated yourself from the things of the world and the glorious power of God has sanctified you from them things, you should be the happiest person there is in the world. There was millions that would do it if they could, but they can't. It's not for them to have it. This is the day when a church is called out, separated. It's different than what it used to be. Yes.


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