<TITLE>25. Par 102-105</TITLE>L-102 Our heavenly Father, we can see, Lord, that the church has lost its first love. We can see that the church in full, all over the nation, has dropped, not only the nation, but the world. We realize that You spoke the other morning and said the seeding time is over here, that the only place to sow seeds is in the foreign fields. This is a gleaning over the stubble. And, O God, truly them words was right.
And now, tonight while we see these precious ones that's made a start, a fair showing in the flesh, trying to move up. They realize that they--that their lives don't cope up with that Word. There's something wrong somewhere. They got pressure, tempers, and indifferences; and O God, or ugly things that makes them misbehave and not act like Christians. They find themselves not satisfied. They're wandering about from one organization to another, from one place to another.

L-103 Though they might've shouted, though they might've danced half a night, though they may have spoke in tongues like pouring peas on a dry cowhide, they might've done all these things, Lord. And yet, O God, Paul said, "Though I speak with tongue of men and Angels, I become as a sounding brass, and a tinkling cymbal. Though I have faith to move mountains, though I give my goods to feed the poor," and all these things; yet he becomes nothing.
O God, may men not rely upon sensations and so forth. May they come to Christ Who is the Word, rise above every unbelief, and follow the Holy Spirit to the promised land. Grant it, Lord. You crossed over Jordan of death. You've come back. You proved to us that there was a good land over there where man lives forever. You give us the resurrection fruits. You let us taste of the heavenly gifts.

L-104 And it's written over in Hebrews the 6th chapter: "For they which were once enlightened (Pentecostals), and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted of the heavenly gifts (the heavenly food of God, and now I see that they're falling away), that there remains no more sacrifice for sin, but a fearful looking for the judgment, the fiery indignation which shall devour the adversary." O God, may borderline believers run into Canaan tonight as fast as they can. Grant it, Lord.
May every one of these little rabbits tonight, Lord, that's a-jumping for what life they've got in them, may they find that Rock, Lord. O God, may this convention never stop until prayer meetings are out here in the bushes and everywhere else, until these people find that Rock where women can be like saints of God, where they can dress like saints, and act like saints, and--and talk like saints; and men can move into their pulpits, and--and--and deacons into their offices, and trustees and things with the--the integrity under the power of the resurrection of Christ, to pray a revival to a--down upon the people. Grant it, Lord.

L-105 May the church be saved, God. You said, "All that the Father has given Me will come. No man can come unless My Father has called him. And all that My Father has given Me will come." O God, is it too late? Will the hounds catch us before we get to the rock? O God, grant not. May every man and woman pinch themselves, wake up to the fact that we're at the end time. It can't be much longer until the coming of our Lord.
Talking of a convention next year, how do we know that it'll be yet tonight, or in the morning, He will come? How do we know that one of us, or many of us in here may be called before morning? Then we'll have to stand in the judgment. What good does all these things of the world do us? We'll perish with them. God, we'll never rise in the resurrection, only to be condemned. God grant that we'll let loose of every shackle tonight, that we'll come to the Rock, and there live in Christ Jesus forevermore. Grant it, Lord. Come into the Rock and let off the pressure. Grant it, Father.


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