<TITLE>08. Par 84-98</TITLE>L-84   Brother Lyle, Brother Banks' brother, was fishing with a reeling pole, great big hook, and a big bunch of worms on. He let that little old bluegill swallow that hook plumb down in his little belly. And when he pulled him up, he said, "Now, I wish you'd look at there," just about that long. And he just... He couldn't take the hook out, I guess. No other way; just cut the string off. And he wanted to save his hook. So he just pulled gills, belly and all, out of him, like that, and throwed him over on the water. And he--he quivered three or four times and just laid there. He said, "You shot your last wad, little fellow."

L-85 I said, "Lyle, when he starts to bite... Get a smaller hook than that. When he starts to bite, take this fly rod laying here, and just as he starts to bite, catch him. See? Before he gets it in and swallows it, catch in his mouth." I said, "That's the sport of catching them."

L-86 "Ah," he said, "I'd make the wrong pull," and just went ahead. And he tried a few times, and missed about three or four. He laid the thing down, said, "I'll just let him swallow it again."

L-87   So this little fish floated around on the water there for a little, oh, I guess, thirty minutes. And the waves begin to get up and come in.

L-88 I said, "Well, we'll have to leave pretty soon. We got a bucket now, so we'll have to leave."

L-89 And I raised up, to throw it back over on some lily pads, and jerk it off. There was some of the big red-belly back there. So I started, pull the--the--the bait off of the pad, you know, flipped it over on the pad, and jerk it off, as you fellows and women know about fishing.

L-90 And when I started to do that, all of a sudden, Something came down through them hills, just like a Wind pouring. And It went upon me. I dropped the pole, and stood up in the boat. I looked around. I heard a Voice say, "You see that little fish?" And there he was, laying there.

L-91 I said, "You see the little fish?" just as He said it. There his little fins was stiffened out, and he was laid on the water for a half hour. And this Bible is laying open now. See?
And He said, "Speak to him, and give him back his life."

L-92 And I said, "Little fishy, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, I give you back your life."

L-93 And those men standing, watching. That little fish turned over on his back, and down through the water he went. They like to fainted. Lyle washed his face in water. He said, "I'll wake up after while." He said, "I--I know I'm dreaming."
I said, "You're not dreaming."

L-94 And right on the same time, I guess I had, on prayer lists, thirty or forty spastic children. And how God would go around, from them spastic children, and bring up that little fish, it just goes to show that He is interested in everything.

L-95   Why would He use His power to curse a fig tree, when there were thousands of lepers in the land? And He bypassed those lepers and went over and put a curse on a fig tree. And said, "No man eat from you," and the fig tree withered. Used His power, showing that He's interested in trees. He's interested in fish.

L-96 He's interested in you. He's interested in me. And He's interested to see His Word made manifest, and He's depending on us to do it, for we are His agents. Nothing in ourselves. It's Him; yielding ourselves and walking with Him.

L-97   Saw a vision that morning. I seen a large animal laying on a side of the hill. Oh, it had a mammoth set of horns. I was on a hunting trip in this vision, along about ten or eleven o'clock in the day. And I slipped over and shot the animal.

L-98 And then on the road back, a mammoth, big grizzly bear raised right up against me, and I shot him.


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