<TITLE>15. Par -</TITLE>L-24-3 I remember one night, real hot night, spooky all around, going to war. Oh, the odds was way against him. And he prayed. He was laying out there under a mulberry tree. The army was already ready out there to meet him. He laid under this mulberry tree, and after while he heard something coming and went on through the mulberry bushes and went on out the other way. He was convinced, brother. No matter what the odds were, he was convinced that God went on before him.
Men, if you can stand here tonight, no matter what's wrong with you; if you can feel that rushing wind of the Holy Spirit coming through you and saying, "I am the Lord that heals all of your diseases; I heal you now," if you can be convinced, brother, you don't care what the contact is out there, you already know it's going to happen. Certainly. He was convinced and then he was concerned.

L-24-5 Samson standing before the Philistines with just a jawbone of a mule in his hand, he wasn't--he wasn't even armed. But he was convinced that the God that had raised him up was able with that jawbone of a mule to kill these Philistines; and he slew a thousand.
The runaway prophet Moses, when Moses got convinced that it was God in that bush... You know, Moses never had any experience with God. He had a lot of theology, but he'd run away. But when he was convinced that that was God in the bush, because the Voice spoke from the bush quoted Scripture to him, and he was convinced that that was God, and God said, "I'll be with you," you know, he'd lost all concern about the burdens in Egypt; He'd been out there forty years and them slave away, but when he was convinced that it was God's will to deliver them, he got concerned right the next day.
Here he goes down the road. Could you imagine what a sight: with Zipporah setting on a mule, little Gershom on her hip, beards hanging down like this, eighty years old, bald head shining to the sun, a crooked stick in his hand a-shouting, "Hallelujah," going down to Egypt to take over.
Yes, it may make you act strange. It might've made him act strange, but he was convinced. Why? "I'm going with you, Moses. I'm going to take this stick that's in your hand, and I'm going to deliver My people."
Now, a little, old, crooked stick didn't look very much, but brother, he was convinced, because the Word of God was with it. You know God's Word's with you and in you, you can be convinced.

L-25-4 The Hebrew children: they were convinced that He was able to keep His Word. Yes. As long as they would stand on it... God told them not to bow to idols. That's just exactly what God meant. And they knew that if they did not bow down to that idol, that God was able to keep His Word. They were convinced that He was. And then when they were convinced about standing with His Word, God was concerned about standing with them.
When you're convinced that this is the Word of God, God's concerned to take care of you with It. Tried It through the foreign fields and everywhere. When you're convinced that It's right--but you've got to be convinced--then God will be concerned with you. But first, you must be convinced that It's Him, and He keeps His promise; then God's concerned.

L-25-6 Martha was convinced that if Jesus asked God, it would happen. She said, "I don't care what any of the rest of them says. I don't care even if my sister Mary don't believe it. I don't believe--don't care what the rabbi says. But, Lord, if You'd have been here, my brother would not died." And she said, "Even now, I'm convinced that if You ask God, God will give it to you. It'll happen. I'm going right down and roll away the stone. I'm going to make ready for it. I'm convinced." Sure.


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