<TITLE>10. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Then the thought come to me, "O God, let me not be as a donkey. Let me be a sheep, that when my flame is dimming and the sun of my life is setting, take me safely in the corral when my eyes are closing." I don't want to be left out there as just a so-called Christian. I want to be a--a real sheep. I want...
They all eat in the same pasture. Just like the Bible says, "The rain falls on the just and the unjust." People set together, crowds of people. Some of them are, and some of them are not. They all fall on the same Spirit. The Spirit will bless the same crowd. It'll fall... the rain will fall upon the cocklebur and it'll just straighten up and rejoice. The same rain that falls on the wheat makes it. But by their fruit they are known. Christians bear Christian lives.

L-43 Notice, now, God's safety zone, God's place of safety. And when we are in here, in this refuge, we have a--a right to the healing power of God. If God will forgive His enemy and take him into the refuge, how much more will He take care of him after He's got him in there. See? There's healing power. So when the Christians get sick, there's no need of being all steamed up about it. Just remember, "By His stripes we are healed." That's the promise. He promised it, so He just can't take it back.
It's a place of refuge for our sickness, for our worries. "Cast all your cares upon Him; for He cares for you." It's a refuge. Trust in His Word, His promises. Every promise that He made belongs to you as long as you're in His Kingdom. As long as you come to Him for refuge, then you have a right to every promise that He made. Every Christian in here, or anywhere else, has a right to anything that Christ died for. And when you're in Christ you possess the whole thing. It's all yours. That's exactly right.

L-44 Look at the Shunammite woman, when she had--the little baby had died. Oh, I imagine that little fellow given to her by the Lord, why, when the prophet spoke... And the little boy, about twelve years old, he was with his daddy one day in a harvest field. He perhaps had a sunstroke. He cried, "My head." And as soon as the father got to the house, there were wailing, and so forth; the little baby was dead, little boy. She'd laid him on Elijah's bed.
And she said, "Saddle a mule. I'm going up to the cave where the prophet is."
And her husband said, "It's neither new moon, nor sabbath. He won't be there."
She said, "All will be well."
So then when Gehazi saw her coming, and Elijah stood in the door of his cave and looked out, he said, "Here comes that Shunammite, and she's riding fast. There must be something wrong." And he said, "Go ask her."
He--he said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the baby?"
She said, "All is well." Everything's all right.

L-45 Why? She could let off the pressure. She'd come to God's representative. She'd come to the living Word. The Word of the Lord came to the prophets. And when she was in the presence of this man who had enough favor with God to tell her that she'd have the baby, she was in the presence of the same man who had the Word of God that was true. Hallelujah.
I'm so glad tonight to be in the Presence of the same God that saved me from a life of sin, and promised He'd raise me up at the last day, He'd heal my sickness, He'd take care of me when I was here. Pressure's off. Forget about the pressure.
She come up and fell down by Elijah and said, "All is well." Sure, she got to the Word. She got in the Presence of God. The pressure went off. All is well now; the pressure's off, for she had got to God's representative.


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