<TITLE>11. Par 46-49</TITLE>L-46 And God's Representative on earth today is the Holy Spirit. And when you're in His Presence, see Him bless you, how can you build up such a pressure to hate your neighbor? How can you build up a denominational difference in your heart? Say, "If they wasn't Pentecostal, if he was Oneness, if was threeness, if he was--had belonged to the Assemblies, if he belonged to the Church of God, I could fellowship with him." How can you do it in the Presence of Almighty God? How can the Holy Spirit be falling upon a congregation, and then make denominational differences? How can it do it? Let off the pressure.
Trouble, we've built up our pressure, because we're so denominational minded. Oh, America is rotten with it, denomination, drawing fences, creeds. What do you care about them creeds and fences? Get in the Presence of God. Get in the Presence of the Holy Spirit. Let off the pressure then.

L-47 That's one good thing I like about these Business Men's fellowship meetings. You just seem to let your collar down. Let off the pressure: not ashamed of it. I've stood with them in the finest of hotels, and the greatest of places, and let the Holy Ghost come to a Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, all shake hands and scream and shout and praise God. Why? They let off the pressure. That's what's the matter. They just don't care what anybody's got to say. They're in the Presence of God letting off the pressure. What a wonderful place to do it. Plenty of room to run; get out here, just take off, that's all. Let off the pressure. It's good to do that. If you don't, you might blow up, burst a valve somewhere. All right.

L-48 Now. Now, we remember, trust in His Word. Now, even... You--you say, "Can I trust Him when I'm sick?" Sure. Look at Mary, or Martha it was, when her brother was dead and she sent for Jesus. And instead of coming, He went away. And she sent again, and He went further. That's built-up pressure.
Now, instead of me... "I asked Him today, and He went further away. And I asked Him again and He goes farther yet." But after while, after she'd buried him, and she heard that Jesus come, she went into His Presence, fell down at His feet, not to upbraid Him. If you approach a gift of God like that, you get nothing. You've got to come with reverence, respects.
When you come just to say, "I'll go give it a try," don't you do that. You're not going to get anything. You come with reverence, fully surrendered, like the man coming into the gate of refuge. You know it's his... It's the only place he has to go. You must come believing.
"Oh, I'll go down to the altar and see if I can speak in tongues. I'll go down and see if I can shout." Oh, brother, you might as well stay in your seat. You're not going to get anything. No.

L-49 But when you come knowing that's your only spot of refuge. When you set in a meeting, and you're pressing, "I didn't get a prayer card?" I've seen people do that. Pressure built up; they miss it altogether. I seen them stand in the meeting in--in the prayer line, come up into there and say, "Well, if I..." See, you're--you're--you're--you're fighting against yourself. Don't do that. Just come with boldness, with reverence. Come in the Presence of God, knowing that God made a promise and that settles it.


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