<TITLE>25. Par 268-276</TITLE>L-268 Well, the ministerial association had gathered together, you know, said, "Don't--don't you all have anything to... Turn him loose; he'll finally--he'll come to the end of his wits. Let him bawl his own brains out. That's all, let him alone."
But old Elijah, walking right true with God, stayed right with the Word. They'd have a little meeting down there, and he'd look across the audience and say, "All you Jezebels..."
"Oh, the very audacity. I'll never go hear that man again. No, sir, I'll have none."
That didn't stop him, he stayed right there just the same. When he lost his church, when he lost his... All the denominations turned against him; it was then when he got weak; he said, "I'm the only one left; they're seeking to kill me." Said, "They'd shoot me if they'd get by with it." Uh-huh. See? "But I... They're seeking my life. And I'm the only one left, Lord, what can I do?"
It was then when he got weak (yet standing true, confessing his weakness and everything), that God said, "Come up on the mountain; I'm going to give you a new message. I'm going to send you a new message now. I've already told you go condemn these things, now I'm going to send you back with something to prove that it was right." Said, "You done a good job, Elijah. You told them about the First Lady, and all that, and how they done. You condemned Ahab, and all of his modern stuff, and all the modern churches, and we told them preachers where they belonged. You was an example. You stood there without any help, any organization, anything behind you, but you stayed with My Word. Now I'm going to give you something. Go down there and tell that hypocrite, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD. There'll not even be dew fall from heaven till I call for it.'" My, my. Took him up on the mountain top to show him something.

L-273 Oh, I can see him that morning, coming, walking down that Samaritan road. He wasn't very much to look at, surely, that bald head a-shining to the sun, gray hairs and whiskers hanging around his face, piece of sheepskin. The Bible said he was "hairy," hairs all over him, I imagine he was a mess to look at; that little old stick in his hand, with them little old eyes looking right towards the skies, walking down the road... And you... he... I guess he acted like a sixteen-year-old when he was about eighty. Here he was coming, walking down the road, right straight to Samaria. Brother, he'd done made strong then in his weakness, "My strength is sufficient. Don't worry about the organizations, Elijah. Don't worry about them; My strength's all you need."

L-274 I remember standing by a great temple one time, and I said, "Lord, I'd hate for them to come to my--my office."
He said, "I am your Portion. (See?) I am your Portion."
"In--in weakness then I--I'm... My strength is strong. My perfect Will can be done (Paul, or Elijah, whoever you are) when you get out of the way." See? "In your weakness, then I'm made strong. I'm the One. I'm the Strong One that comes in and fills up."

L-276 I can see him walking right down that Samaritan road, them little old eyes looking like that, boy, kind of a half smile on his face. Brother, he walked right up in the presence of Ahab. He never stammered; he never stuttered. No, no. Beating under that little old skinny chest was a heart with the Holy Ghost living in there. Yes, indeed. Come walking down that road, walked right up in front of Ahab, and said, "Not even dew will fall till I call for it." Stomped his feet and, turned around, back up in the wilderness he went.
Said, "That was a good job, Elijah. Come up here; I've commanded all the crows to feed you now, and the--and set down up here awhile." Oh, my.
When he was weak, then he become strong. Yes, sir. He shook the heavens that it wouldn't rain. That's when he got strong, when he lost his church, lost everything he had, everything else. But he stayed with God's Word; then he had power to shut the heavens.


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