<TITLE>10. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 Moses knew intellectually that he was a deliverer. But when he thought the children of God would understand him when he slew the Egyptian, the first little rumor come up he wasn't perseverant at all. Just before he even got to Pharaoh, he took for the desert, because he wasn't perseverant. He wasn't too sure. He just knowed it from the Word standpoint, the promise.
But one day he saw a bush that was afire, and it was burning, and it did not consume. So Moses took--went up the mountainside. And setting back in that bush was that big Pillar of Fire that was to lead him the rest of his days. And in this Pillar of Fire spoke out a Voice: "I have seen the afflictions of my people. I've heard their groanings and I remember My promise to Abraham, and I'm come down to deliver them. Now, go down there."

L-32 Now, talk about perseverant, he walked right up in the face of Pharaoh, said, "Let them go." Why? He'd talked face-to-face with God till he had his commission. I think if minister brethren today would just not take it from a intellectual standpoint; but would find them a place on the backside of the desert on those sacred sands where Satan cannot place his dirty feet of unbelief, and stay there until a message comes from God and positionally places you in the ministry, then all the devils out of torment could not shake you from it. You know you're called.
I think each Christian ought to do that. Before you come out and confess the Holy Ghost, confess that you have the baptism, there ought to be such a personal contact with God until all the intellectuals in the world couldn't explain it from you. You know. You've been there. You've had the witness. You know it's so. That's a requirement. Jesus told the disciples. "You wait. You know the intellectual part. You know the Word. But you wait up there at the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high." Then they knew. Oh, my.

L-33 How little David, way back on the backside of the desert, little, ruddy, stoop-shouldered fellow herding his sheep out there for his father, one day a bear come in and got a lamb, and he took off after him, and took his little slingshot and killed the bear.
And then again, a lion come in and got one, and he run out with the kid. And the little David... That was his father's sheep. And he took after him with a little slingshot, not with a magnum rifle now, with a slingshot with a rock in it. But his trust was in God. He slung the rock, struck the lion, knocked him down. And when the lion rose up, he slew him, brought the sheep back. He was persistent, because... Why? He had a charge for his father's sheep.

L-34 I think that ought to be the feeling of every clergyman. We got a charge from God for the Father's sheep. The old devil of sickness has struck among you Christians. He's trying to take you out. I, having no education, I--I know nothing about medicine. But the only thing I got is this little slingshot of prayer. I'm coming after you tonight, going to bring you back. He promised the prayer of faith shall save the sick.
Maybe the great intellectual, the great scientific medicines and things, might laugh at it. I don't know nothing about that. As David, when he tried to take up a sword and put on Saul's ecclesiastical jacket, it didn't fit him. Never does fit a real man of God. But he picked up... He said, "Let me go with what I've proved."
That's the only thing I know, Christians, is to go with what I've proven to be Truth. That's God's Word, His Word, standing on It. Come after His sick children. Let's bring them back to shady green pastures, and still waters, and good health, strength.


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