<TITLE>16. Par 66-69</TITLE>L-66 "You remember his wife, Rebekah, that was a true believer, how Jesus of Nazareth had done a great thing for her? And she said, 'I'm praying for Zacchaeus.' And we thought if we went up to the restaurant that he owned and eat, he wouldn't charge us for it. When he found out we was disciples he made us pay double, and he said, 'Get out of here with such stuff as that. I'm a friend of Rabbi Kabinski, Lubinski, or..." I hope there's not one in here like that. So anyhow, if I did, pardon me. You see?
"And said the next morning... Rebekah prayed all night long that... Jesus was going to visit the city, and so she thought that she wanted him to come in contact with Jesus. She'd told him about Him being a prophet, and He was the prophet that Moses spoke of. But oh, he was arrogant. His hopes was on money, and he didn't care nothing about no Jesus of Nazareth. But you know, when Rebekah told us she prayed all night long... You know, prayer changes things."

L-67 That's right, friends. You know prayer changes the mind of God. God sent a prophet up to a man one day and said, "Set your house in order. You're going to die." He turned his face to the wall, and prayed earnestly, and said, "Lord, I beseech You to consider me. I've walked before You with a perfect heart. I need fifteen years." And looked like God would've spoke right back to the king; he was the biggest man in the country. But He speaks to His prophet. He told Isaiah, "Go back and tell him, I heard him and I'm going to spare his life."
Could you imagine the embarrassment of that prophet, going up once to the military men, "Oh, great prophet, what about our king?"
"THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's going to die."
Go up to the poor people standing at the gate. "What about our prophet... Prophet, what about our king?"
"THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's going to die."
Oh, how they was weeping. Coming right, going out, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's going to die." And then, in a few minutes, here he comes back saying, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's going to live. THUS SAITH THE LORD..." What happened? Prayer changed things. Prayer changes things.

L-68 Notice. Then this testimony: Little old Zacchaeus that morning... When Rebekah had prayed all night, next morning he gets up real early, and he begins to groom hisself, and comb out his beard, and put on his best robe, you know, and get ready to go down in the city. And Rebekah turns over, you know, and looks kind of out of one eye, and said, "Uh-huh. I see. Thank You, Lord. It's going to be all right. "Where goest thou this morning, my beloved husband?"
"Oh, I'm just out for a breath of air." And he goes down to the gate, and he finds out he can't get there. There's too many there; he's too short in statue. He goes back down and gets a city garbage pail, and pushes it up against the tree, climbs up in top of the tree. Said, "I know He comes down Glory Street here, and turns down Hallelujah Avenue." He always does that. "So I'll meet Him right here on the corner. That's a good place to meet Him."

L-69 "So you remember, brethren, how Zacchaeus told us about it?"
"Yes, we remember it."
"And he climbed up in this tree, and he said, 'Now, I'm so little that when He passes by here, goes by here, He will never... I'll never see Him, and He will never see me. But if I get up in this tree, I'm above the whole crowd. I can look right down and see Him, and I'll just about give Him a piece of my mind when He passes under here.'"
"And then the first thing you know, why, he happened to think. 'You know what? Rebekah said that that Man was a prophet. And if He was a prophet, He might look up in this tree and see me, and I'd be embarrassed. So I'll fix him. He won't see me.' So he begin to pull the leaves in around him, and he camouflaged himself real good. He set down in a fork of a tree there to scrape the splinters off of him, and the garbage from the pail, you know, and so forth."


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