<TITLE>05. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 I think every minister should stay by himself a long time before entering the pulpit, to come out in the freshness of the Holy Spirit, because he's got the purchase. See, I've often thought what I would do with two drops of the literal Blood of Jesus. And now here we have before us the purchase of His Blood. He gave His Blood for you, and we're handling that audience. Oh, my. Better be real sure and just as reverent as we can be.
So I was real nervous, as we all know what it is. And I couldn't sleep, so... My wife waited up long, so she was sleeping. I got up and went and set out in the chair, out in the living room. About daylight I was setting there, thinking about the meeting, and wondering back what some of the visions was, and so forth. And all at once I heard a turnover down there in the girl's room, right down a little hall there at the parsonage. And I looked.

L-20 Becky, she'd woke up. Quickly she thought, "This is daylight. Daddy must be home." And when she jumped up, she woke up Sarah, her little sister. And Becky is kind of skinny, and long-legged, and--and--and so she come running through the room. And Sarah, a little short fellow...
And I kind of compare them, in thinking of it, as the church. You know, it's been a long time here, you know. And it's got a lot of history behind it. And--and the other one is kind of just a little, short, Pentecostal group, you know, they kinda haven't been around very long. So they...
And Becky come running out real fast. And she jumped right straddle on my lap, and she said--throwed her arms around my neck, and begin hugging me. And you know how your heart feels. Well, little Sarah, she had on... I don't know whether your children does or not, mine gets the hand-me-downs, the seconds. So she had on Becky's pajamas, and the feet was just like rabbit feet, you know, way too long. And the little fellow was stumbling, falling, coming through the house. Finally she made it.

L-21 And just about the time she got there, Becky looked around, and she said, "Sarah, my sister, I want to tell you something. I was here first." See? And said, "I've got all of daddy, and there's nothing left for you."
So little Sarah, her little lip dropped down, her little brown eyes kinda watered, and I stuck my other leg out, motioned to her. She just run and jumped right on, like she would a saddle horse. And she was kinda tottery, you know. She was about to fall off. She hadn't been around very long. Her legs wasn't as long as Becky's--she could reach all the way down to the floor, you know.
And--and so, Sarah was tottery, and I put both arms around her to hold her. She laid her head over on my bosom a little bit. Directly she snapped those little black eyes, and looked back to Rebekah, said, "Rebekah, my sister, I want to tell you something. See? It may be true that you've got all of daddy. But I want you to know daddy's got all of me." So...
You know, when He gets all of us wrapped up in Him, we just don't care any more, do we? Everything just fades all the way out. And that's what I want to do, and that's what we all want to do: just let Him get all we got, all of our time, all our senses, and just give over to Him. That's right.


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